Example sentences for: idiomatic

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

  • I had already learnt that although there is no idiomatic way in English of asking such a question, it is very common in Malayalam and also, I think, in other Indian vernaculars.

  • When I took my first foreign language in high school, I clearly remember being intolerantly amused by the peculiar way Spanish speakers say certain things, which I learned were called idiomatic expressions.

  • To lift from the latest Fowler's English Usage, (ed. R.W. Burchfield, Oxford, 1996 p. 227) a friend of my mother's is idiomatic, but a friend of the British Museum's is not.

  • Etymological dictionaries do pretty much the same, though for the most part they, like the OED , eschew information about multiword entries, idiomatic phrases, and such.

  • A longish section, “Some Troublesome Idiomatic Prepositions,” and a “Glossary of Grammatical and Linguistic Terms Used in This Book,” followed by a list of “References,” sources associated with specific entries, round out the work.


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