Example sentences for: euphemisms

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

  • The jargon also becomes sprinkled with euphemisms, among which I count health care professional , a definition for which—too long to repeat here—appears in this book under professional .

  • Funny are the ingenious hybrids, elaborate euphemisms and novel insult-categories.

  • Probably because of his five and a half year imprisonment, he is impatient with the euphemisms and lies of politics.

  • The text is organized into ten chapters titled “The Lexicon for Bodily Effluvia, Sex, and Tabooed Body-Parts,” “Euphemisms in Addressing and Naming,” “Taboo Terms as Insults, Epithets, and Expletives,” and so on; without a word and phrase index, access to particular expressions is denied, thus reducing the usefulness of the work.

  • Nowhere could I find any comment on language levels and the fact that euphemisms are seldom used in certain contextual situations (e.g.


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