Example sentences for: colloquial

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

  • Borrowings from other languages frequently undergo sea changes, but when they are complicated by the tendency of colloquial Hebrew to abbreviate, the results are frequently weird and wonderful.

  • The writing is easy to read and colloquial (by which I mean it contains the classic solecisms that purists deride).

  • It is a comfort to know that if my book still merits reprinting some decades hence, as it is in machine-readable form, the publishers need only write a short program indicating that informal be substituted for all occurrences of colloquial and, like magic, the switch will be effected.

  • Even scientists use different colloquial names for animals.

  • Finally,--and this may come as the most unkindest cut of all to purists--most speeches call for use of conversational, colloquial English.


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