COLLOQUIALISM in a Sentence
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Example sentences for COLLOQUIALISM, such as:
1. I'll be as damn colloquial as I want to.
2. It's hard to understand the colloquial idioms of a foreign language.
3. His colloquialisms seemed to Carol no more lax than their habitual slang.
4. Ziad typically adopts the colloquialism of his generation and effectively captures village and mountain dialects as well.
5. He might have to explain colloquial English to her, but he did not have to explain the intangibles of their lives and work.
2. It's hard to understand the colloquial idioms of a foreign language.
3. His colloquialisms seemed to Carol no more lax than their habitual slang.
4. Ziad typically adopts the colloquialism of his generation and effectively captures village and mountain dialects as well.
5. He might have to explain colloquial English to her, but he did not have to explain the intangibles of their lives and work.
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Meanings and Examples of COLLOQUIALISM
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colloquialism
n. a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
Classic Sentence:
1 A small-town bungalow, the wives of a village doctor and a village dry-goods merchant, a provincial teacher, a colloquial brawl over paying a servant a dollar more a week.
2 I'll be as damn colloquial as I want to.
3 His colloquialisms seemed to Carol no more lax than their habitual slang.
Example Sentence:
1 Ziad typically adopts the colloquialism of his generation and effectively captures village and mountain dialects as well.
2 He might have to explain colloquial English to her, but he did not have to explain the intangibles of their lives and work.
3 It's hard to understand the colloquial idioms of a foreign language.