Example sentences for: lingo

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

  • It's fun to watch these jazzy young actors scrutinize their cards and each other and throw around their poker lingo; and the director, John Dahl ( The Last Seduction , 1994), gives the picture a jaunty tempo and a deep-toned Rembrandt look without ever calling attention to his hand.

  • It is something like the zone of current sports lingo in which a tennis player, say, enters a trance-like state, putting him on a roll where he can't miss a shot.

  • Far from inclining to French, these natives cleave to British schoolboy slang, a hard-dying lingo.

  • This is the lingo of Watergate, an event that remains at the center of Safire's consciousness.

  • Tex-Mex the lingo spoken by many bilingual Texans who combine English and Spanish in the same sentences.


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