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:

  • About ten days later, Bennett returned and, encountering Bob in the corridor, asked him about the “four-letter decision”; “ Shit and piss are in,” replied Bob, “ Fuck and cunt are out.”

  • ..” In the event, a user might well be confused about seeing the label Vulgar applied to four-letter words, when its definitions seem to indicate that it means (merely) “in bad taste.”

  • The next year the trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover brought four-letter words into public debate.

  • 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.”

  • Consider how long it took lexicographers to include four-letter words in their dictionaries; yet we know from long experience with spoken English that a researcher five hundred years hence would be wrong to conclude that those terms were invented or even came into general use at the end of the 20th century.


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