point out
(tr, adverb) to indicate or specify
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How to use point out in a sentence
So my way to point out his cultural cluelessness is to be even more clueless?
Patton Oswalt on Fighting Conservatives With Satire | William O’Connor | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTI point out that Connery speaks with a brogue and that our character is an American from New York.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAirline chiefs point out that this is a business where it is notoriously difficult to make money.
Flying Coach Is the New Hell: How Airlines Engineer You Out of Room | Clive Irving | November 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAround the time the Soviet Union collapsed, fans of capitalism liked to point out that it made clerks smile.
I point out the phrase “more distinct separation,” and I suggest that the purpose of the semicolon is at least in part rhythmic.
And here let me point out for your future guidance the importance of having a private secretary thoroughly up to his work.
It may, therefore, be as well to point out the principal distinctions between this bird and the Common Bittern last mentioned.
Birds of Guernsey (1879) | Cecil SmithProbably the difference between the two is not sufficiently known; it may, therefore, be as well to point out the distinctions.
Birds of Guernsey (1879) | Cecil SmithThe sexton was soon found and he was delighted to point out the interesting objects in the church and vicinity.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyI have already produced an instance to point out this, and shall now corroborate it with another.
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae | Edward Jenner
Other Idioms and Phrases with point out
Identify or bring to notice, as in He pointed out the oldest buildings in the city, or She pointed out an error in our reasoning. [Late 1400s]
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