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.”

  • 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.

  • There are a couple of credible candidates: The four-letter word for "vagina" remains off-limits in polite conversation (although that has more to do with feminism than with profanity), and the slang expression for those who engage in oral sex with males is not yet acceptable by the standards of office-meeting etiquette.

  • ..” 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.”

  • 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.


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