Example sentences for: colloquially

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

  • The animal was identified as the kind of monkey called in English a macaque , Italian macacco , here colloquially truncated.

  • Early turn is generally known colloquially as early worm , but the other two have no sobriquets.

  • I went to high school--a small school with only a minority of Italians--with a girl named Pochintesta ( poco little, in in, testa head), another named Zucchi (a plural form of zucca squash, or, colloquially, head; Hanks and Hodges say this name was often given to a person of scarce intelligence, as in pumpkinhead), one boy named Chiappa (buttock), and another named Chiappinelli (which may be either an extended diminutive of Chiappa or the diminutive of chiappino , which Battaglia defines as a type of ape).

  • What a surprise to hear, first, an American commentator on a televised golf tourney describe a reverse-necked putter colloquially, and then to hear the Japanese broadcaster translate that description into a terse sentence or two ending with the expression “bassackawad putta.”

  • His official title will be "high representative" for European foreign and security policy, but according to the Financial Times of London, he is already colloquially known as "Mr.


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