Example sentences for: euphemism

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

  • I found it amusing that the writers of this new series chose a euphemism where elsewhere they have been much more blunt.

  • This is a euphemism for sackings or firings.

  • Taboo is here employed in its loosest sense, quite a different one from that demanded by the context of the book, and it would have been better to have described raising taxes as a term that is “politically inexpedient” (itself a useful euphemism).

  • While the name does have a little currency as a slang term or euphemism for oral sex--more than I thought when I spoke to the New York Post --I agree that it won't have much staying power.

  • (They call these places, with a sick sense of euphemism, "video malls."


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