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"Dictate" in a Sentence (17 examples)
No one shall dictate to me.
I can't keep up with you. Could you dictate a bit slower?
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Friends, don't be constantly in fear of the unthinkingly critical, grimacing conventional world, but always act as your conscience and heart dictate.
I do not dictate your lessons.
Don't dictate your rules on me.
Layla didn't want her father to dictate the trajectory of her own life.
Write down what I am going to dictate.
You write what I dictate.
Don't let your emotions dictate your actions.
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I must obey the dictates of my conscience.
Trademark Owners will nevertheless try to dictate how their marks are to be represented, but dictionary publishers with spine can resist such pressure.
She is dictating a letter to a stenographer.
The French teacher dictated a passage from Victor Hugo.
He had offered, and been refused! There was that in her own nature, which sympathised with the pride, for such she held to be the motive, dictating the refusal.
Geology dictates the approximate location of the tunnel.
I didn't lay this bar, or the restaurant for that matter, out on paper. The design was dictated by the materials.
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