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:

"She's like a naturalist at a tide pool, but instead of examining shrimp and sand crabs, she tracks loss, entropy and the ravages of aging," says Laurie Stone in the Village Voice . In the New York Times Book Review , Elizabeth Frank says that Hecht writes some of the "freshest and loveliest colloquial speech to grace American fiction in a long time."
Rhyming slang is a feature of colloquial Australian English, but it appears to have been especially intensive in the underworld and in prisons at this time.
The anachronistic colloquial expressions ("bedding down," "a little snow," "shit, man"), the insertion of gratuitous detail ("his TR-6 convertible sports car," "one point four-five million dollars"), and the utterly non-conversational tone ("raised almost a staggering sixty million dollars") all make me suspicious.
The British, who didn't go through the dislocation (and revivification) of a revolution, simple allowed the gentry to establish the colloquial norm for those who counted themselves among the educated, and mined the literature for texts to constitute a canon that would be taught as a stylistic and, as a by-product, grammatical model.
Because dictionary users became accustomed to seeing words and senses of which they disapproved (in formal contexts) bearing the Colloquial label, the word colloquial began to undergo pejoration itself.