How to Use elision in a Sentence

elision

noun
  • This elision strengthens rather than weakens the film's central theme of faith.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 12 July 2017
  • The elision of more recent pasts leaves something to be desired elsewhere in the show, too.
    — Cat Dawson, ARTnews.com, 3 July 2026
  • The elision of the line between the dead and the living is a hallmark of Ward’s work.
    — Imani Perry, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Such elisions may be understandable, but the hearings are over.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The history of slavery is one of elisions and silences, of moving on.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • These elisions can be frustrating, despite the book’s many pleasures.
    — Jacob Brogan, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
  • In that pursuit, Clark crafts a response in proportion to the elision.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Still, her assumptions and elisions are striking, if predictable.
    — Greg Jackson, Harper's magazine, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Payne’s omissions and elisions turn out to be more than just a matter of the current events of 1970.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The elision of freedom with lawlessness was an easy one to make, and one that Xi’s party still makes today.
    — Eva Dou, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Readers may have noticed a slight elision in my May 30 column on these matters.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 15 June 2018
  • This often takes years, but Thunberg might not need as much time—the necessary elisions have already begun.
    — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Whatever its causes in the real world, the elision in the book is an unforgivable flaw, a black hole at its center.
    — Randy Rosenthal, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022
  • But the magnetism of these books derives not from its mountain of facts but from its elisions — all those gaps in our knowledge and understanding.
    — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
  • That is often how it is pronounced when spoken, due to the linguistic phenomenon of elision, in which a speaker drops a sound in a word or a phrase.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Because Okuyama constructs the film like a memory, some elision and obliqueness are to be expected.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 May 2024
  • One of those elisions is the name of the online outlet to which Winner sent the incriminating article.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 29 May 2023
  • And Henry’s brilliant at that—using the right hundred-dollar word there, and being slightly charming here, and a slight elision there.
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
  • While the nature of adaptation requires compression and elision, the film dutifully tells the story that fans of the book will turn out to see brought to life on the big screen.
    — Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • These two work by means of elision and ellipsis, unfolding in sections separated by roughly 20 years.
    — Charles McGrath, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
  • As a result of these elisions, the film feels less like a documentary than like a work of abstract expressionism, yet much beauty can be found in Russell's approach.
    — Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader, 5 June 2018
  • While progress is more radically interrogated in Christodora than the other novels, elision is central to all three.
    — Manuel Betancourt, Longreads, 29 Mar. 2018
  • And yet even if one corrects for the self-serving elisions of Kissinger’s accounts, there is no denying the extraordinary nature of his accomplishments.
    — Timothy Naftali, Foreign Affairs, 1 Dec. 2023
  • By contrast, Brinkley’s approach flattens the movement to a march of saints who, inexplicably, must be safeguarded against critique or elision.
    — Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Those records should be available to the public, the way that Lumen’s records of copyright takedowns in Google search are, unless that very availability defeats the purpose of the elision.
    — Jonathan Zittrain, The Atlantic, 30 June 2021
  • Moore’s delivery of Shange’s poetic transliteration of black English—its elisions and rhythms—makes this flowering of first love also a kind of standup routine.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Mannheim thought that the great danger in generational analysis was the elision of class as a factor in determining beliefs, attitudes, and experiences.
    — The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Would the elision of the difference between hating debt and hating Jews found in the shooter’s manifesto be present in the cultural impact of Ramsey’s teachings?
    — Eve Ettinger, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Rivkin spends a significant amount of time noting the discomfiting elision and erasure of Twombly’s sexuality in the many catalogues and chronologies of his work.
    — Andrew Martin, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • The question of what Reiki is introduces—or highlights—an elision between the spiritual and the scientific that has, as yet, no resolution.
    — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2020

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