Words similar to colloquial

Example sentences for: colloquial

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

Colloquial means nothing more than `used in colloquy, or conversation' and is thus no more than a high-flown term for conversational , which, as far as I know, carries no stigma.
But in the process, the sentence would become less colloquial and less intelligible.
Occasionally, the colloquial name, by itself, adds to the information given in the binomial: the platypus (Ornithorhyncus anatinas ) is a (ducklike, bird-snouted) flatfoot.
On the other hand, egg in the good/bad egg context is in, and I should not expect many dictionaries to label that sense (in contrast to the aerial bomb sense, which is slang) anything but Informal or, depending on their style, Colloquial .
It seems unnecessary, when we have available terms like informal, colloquial, formal, nonstandard, literary, poetic , and even conversational (though I have never seen the last used), to come up with still another set of labels, but Jules Hook, the author of a number of responsible and useful works dealing with English, feels that FF and SWE (for `family and friends' and `standard written English,' respectively) tell the user something that he might not already know or feel about usages of borderline words.