Example sentences for: esoteric

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

  • But the larger vocabulary of English is irrelevant in two respects: much of this larger vocabulary is esoteric, exotic, pedantic, or otherwise as foreign to everyday English usage as Chinese; and whereas vocabulary is quantified by words, the expressive units of French tend to be phrases, such as chemin de fer, joie de vivre , and raton laveur . By the usual lexical reckoning one could say that French has no word for rail-road or raccoon .

  • Soccer, when I was growing up in the '70s, was a still an esoteric sport.

  • Surely I'm in the advanced stages of Reed-Hendrix Syndrome--if I liked something, it must have been the most esoteric thing on the album.

  • Who gets to decide whether they should be sliced, diced, dyed, pulverized, displayed, x-rayed, photographed, and subjected to the esoteric tests developed for forensic laboratories to reveal secrets they carefully took to their graves or urns?

  • Just a mile from Dogo Spa is the 14th-century Ishiteji temple, one of the 88 stages of the springtime Buddhist pilgrimage around Shikoku defined by Kobo Daishi, founder of Shingon esoteric Buddhism.


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