Example sentences for: lingo

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

  • Garblings and imbroglios are going on all the time in English, not only in America or in Slurvian but wherever the lingo is spoken.

  • American cowboys, perhaps confusing the Spanish dale with English dally, began to understand, maybe at the cost of an eye or two, and in their own lingo called the rawhide lariats dally ropes . That, at least, was the etymology current in Southern Arizona, which was plausible enough to convince me.

  • I'd like to add a word to Harry Cohen's delightful list in “Jingo Lingo” [XVI, 4].

  • For all I knew, "Slate" was actually insider's lingo for a certain market niche--my market niche!

  • 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.


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