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Example sentences for: four-letter

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

Thus, when uttered by an actor whose thumb has just been struck by a hammer or who has suffered some frustration or other outrage, any of several four-letter words seem as natural as in real life.
The four third-grade protagonists--Stan, Kyle the Jew, fat Cartman, and mush-mouthed sacrificial lamb Kenny--sing a Rodgers and Hammerstein-style ode to their "peaceful, redneck, podunk" wintry mountain town (where denizens step over the homeless on their way to church services), and then bluff their way into an R-rated Canadian cartoon called Asses of Fire . That picture stars a crudely drawn, Beavis and Butt-head-type duo called Terrance and Phillip, who entertain each other by spewing four-letter words and passing gas in each other's faces.
One example, not the author's fault, is the comment, “The editors of the Random House Dictionary of 1966 decided, after considerable agonizing, not to insert any four-letter words.”
This was, after all, a man renowned for his retiring propriety, a man who sedulously barred anything smacking of the salacious--from lingerie ads to four-letter words--from the magazine he stewarded from 1952 until 1987, five years before his death.
Not all of verbal aggression is concerned with four-letter words; much of it (and many of the four-letter words) involves insults, racist and other prejudicial language, and other parts of the nether reaches of language formerly represented largely by asterisks.