Example sentences for: coined

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

  • Anglos coined the word buckaroo, meaning vaquero, because they disliked the word cowboy and did not want to call themselves by that name.

  • Just think how many words must have been coined by writers whose works are the only ones extant from early periods of the language: people who misuse citation dictionaries must think that Richard Rolle of Hampole, Holinshed, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and a handful of other geniuses sat down one day and invented the English language, making up the words as they went along.

  • " 'When I cleverly coined the phrase "nattering nabobs of negativism."

  • The high-five was originally a gesture developed for use in basketball, where it first appeared among the University of Louisville team in the 1979-80 season; Louisville player Derek Smith claims to have coined the name.

  • To mercy fuck and sport fuck we now add the even less pleasant hate fuck, immortalized as the title of the first album of post-punk band Pussy Galore in 1987 but found in the '70s, and force-fuck, apparently coined because the word rape wasn't shocking enough.


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