How to use "dictation" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "dictation" in popular movie and book plots

  • Awad's Muslim followers admire his illiteracy, and he is well known to have scribes to take dictation for him.  - The Better Angels
  • The dictation scenes are interrupted by long flashback scenes showing how the investigation proceeded.  - Parole, Inc.
  • They are having problems teaching a secretarial student, named Maizie (Dorothea Kent) who cannot spell, take dictation or type.  - More Than a Secretary
  • Charles de Berlaymont, sharing the opinion with Willem the Silent, opposes the Spanish dictation and introduces the 'honorary title' Geuzen.  - Nederland en Oranje
  • He persuades her to take dictation of a quite dark poem describing drowning.  - Dark Harbor
  • In the opening, Kolchak is sitting on the bed of a sleazy hotel room, listening to a replay of his dictation on his portable tape recorder.  - The Night Stalker (1972 film)
  • Gregory explains to his wife that any character that he describes into his dictation machine will appear according to his description.  - A World of His Own
  • The dying man tells Anna to take dictation from the prince, and instructs the boy to give orders as if he were King.  - The King and I

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