Example sentences for: idiom

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

  • The form (which I obtained) was downright gibberish, corresponding to no idiom on earth.

  • Of course, we cannot blame the Germans for making these mistaked, but we can blame English speakers for swallowing them whole, and with such a blatant lack of feeling for English idiom.

  • It would seem that good control over clichés, especially, is coordinate with a speaker's grasp of the idiom (in the sense of `spirit') of the language.

  • Latin, through the clergy, was widely introduced to the native idiom and took a strong position in the law well before the Conquest.

  • A new morpheme survives the novelty of its first innovation (like telethon for - athon ) because it turns out to be useful, almost as if by accident, and brings something new into the idiom.


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