Example sentences for: locutions

How can you use “locutions” 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.

  • This is particularly true for me of a language like Thai, which is geographically and grammatically half a world away from my mother tongue, English, such that many Thai locutions give pause and delight.

  • There are also sundry off-the-rack locutions that can dress up language to similar effect, such as the long-established blah blah

  • The same can be said of certain other of Pepys's locutions, for example the past participle gotten instead of got: “..

  • Today, the personal pronouns my , his , her , their , and our are being deployed before "God" as never before: Such locutions have become a pervasive social trope.


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