Example sentences for: americanisms

How can you use “americanisms” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A term that describes the use of English expressions in Spanish, or Americanisms interjected into conversations when speaking Spanish.

  • The misinformation begins in the introduction [v], where the author acknowledges among his sources Mitford M. Mathews' The American Dialect Dictionary and A Dictionary of Americanisms .

  • Mr. Lederer's unflagging interest in early American culture, his voracious reading of the books, papers, and documents of the time, and his penchant for collecting Americanisms and turning some useful, entertaining, and interesting comments about them have continued unabated.

  • .”), “The influences of other varieties of English” (in which one can find good examples of so-called Americanisms that were formerly British).

  • But in a chapter entitled—make that titled— Americanisms, the manual betrays both an unseemly nationalistic bias and an ignorance of the history of its own language.


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