Example sentences for: expletive

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

  • 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 .

  • I'm not sure there is an easy way to convey to anybody under 30, for example, the sheer emotive force that the word "[expletive]" possessed in the urban childhood culture of 40 years ago.

  • He took all of this [expletive] ."

  • To be sure, I've been known to use that particular Anglo-Saxon expletive myself, and with great verve, too; but to encounter it in the pages of Slate was just too much.

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


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