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.

  • 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.”

  • Critics credit the independence of cable with allowing what broadcast networks won't: four-letter words, grotesque violence, abundant male nudity.

  • 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.

  • ..” 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.”


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