Example sentences for: idiomatic

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

  • The result may not always be idiomatic, but it will probably get the point across.

  • Loosely translated, what would that be in idiomatic English?

  • As he would doubtless have observed in his perfectly idiomatic English, Plus ca change, plus c'est la même chose.

  • While that is true about the majority of words, it does not obtain for all the words and certainly not for many of the colorful parts of the language, notably slang and idiomatic expressions.

  • The general production of the book is poor: the paper has too much “see-through,” causing the type on the back of a page to interfere with the legibility; the type is too gray; the definitions are run into one another, with semicolons in place of definition numbers, making it difficult to distinguish senses and requiring one to read through a long entry before coming to the sense sought; it is almost impossible to discover where a new part of speech begins; subentries of idiomatic phrases and phrasal verbs are given the same prominence as headwords, making them easy to find but detracting from the headword treatment; and the substandard typography has created many loose lines which poor proofreading has failed to catch.


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