Example sentences for: jargon

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

  • Stiffed is blessedly free of jargon, and full of telling detail.

  • Another reason for the lack of attention, closer to my own concerns, is that Western historians no longer have a simple story to tell about the history of the second millennium--a single "meta-narrative," to use our jargon.

  • Perhaps a bit more interesting is the intelligence that, according to The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink , by Richard A. Spears (Scarecrow Press, 1986), there are 624 terms for marijuana , 151 for P.C.P.

  • Real time in jargon applies to doing something without time for planning or previous thought, as in the minutes before a presentation (or indeed during it), creating a display to replace the key prop someone forgot.

  • It was originally used by the pachucos (1940s youths) in the jargon they developed in the 1930s.


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