Example sentences for: idiomatic

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

  • My guess is that it will achieve, at the very least, a kind of status that is going to be conferred on more and more English locutions as time goes on: the status of a native idiomatic expression whose constituency is in fact an international group of English speakers.

  • It is well known that the origins of many words still elude the most determined researchers in etymology, but, taken as a whole, I should imagine that the proportion of idiomatic expressions without confirmed etymologies may be higher than that of words whose provenance has not been established.

  • My aim in this work is to illustrate what I believe is the astonishing debt that our idiomatic speech owes to the nautical language of the past.

  • However, students of a foreign language soon realize that to master it fully, it is not enough to know the grammatical structure and basic vocabulary: one must also memorize a fair number of phrases and idiomatic expressions and, as a further step, proverbs and sayings.

  • 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.


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