Example sentences for: colloquially

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

  • 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.

  • 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.”

  • ..” Perhaps particularly where the noun and adjective are identical in form, if not function, colloquially a blunt noun is invented, such as Dutchman for German (n.)

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

  • The office that carried out this plan was officially called the White House Office of Public Liaison--but was more colloquially known as the Office of Negro Affairs.


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