Daily Sentence

Each day the wordsmiths at Dictionary.com select one word to be the Word of the Day. But a word without a sentence is like a wingnut without a bolt—useless. Here, we give these words a proper home, and some dignity. Woof!
Jul 30
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Sesquipedalian

Being a Yale man I never missed an opportunity to employ my sesquipedalian abilities until the portentous day my automobile broke down in Montana and, subsequent to an egregious display of prolixity, I learned a lesson about regional grandiloquence: Bozemanites loathe bombast.