Example sentences for: expletive

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

  • Also, shades of the dog who didn't bark, the Post reveals that investigators are paying close attention to what the praying co-pilot didn't say: "There was no shocked expletive or puzzled comment, as pilots typically make in an emergency or when highly computerized aircraft suddenly take action without pilot input."

  • To illustrate the expletive use of the word damn , for instance, H.C. Wyld's Universal Dictionary of the English Language [George Routledge and Sons, 1932] prints the phrase damn this dictionary .

  • To much of ordinary Britain, he became the man who had said "[expletive]" on the BBC.

  • "I think there are very few rational people in this world to whom the word '[expletive]' is particularly diabolical or revolting or totally forbidden."

  • "Let's see if we can bring this damn thing back here next year," he said, "along with the [expletive] Super Bowl."


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