Example sentences for: colloq

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

  • My own observation is that Informal might be undergoing its own round of pejoration -- these things sometimes go in cycles -- and, in a reference book I recently completed, which will be published by Oxford University Press in the autumn of 1991, I have chosen to return to Colloq . As the book is in machine-readable form, should the publisher decide, in a generation's time, to switch back to Informal , the change can be readily accommodated by performing a simple substitution program on a computer, and all the Colloqs will become Infs before you know it.

  • Having no copy of Aelfric's Homilies available to me, I am unable to see exactly what this cleric and grammarian wrote c. 1000, but I will lay you dollars to doughnuts ( low colloq ., ca. 1920, Partridge) that the Grammarian is not the source of the misquote qua proverb, Money is the root of all evil.

  • On the other hand, he may be surprised to learn that it does contain hospitalize, a verb with no stigmatizing labels like orig. U.S. slang or U.S. colloq.

  • It labels the well-established verb contact , meaning to figuratively get in touch with a person, as U.S. Colloq., even though it has citations going back to 1927.


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