Example sentences for: malapropism

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

  • Lysander Kemp reminded me of a malapropism in Spanish which I created for myself.

  • Mono sound equipment brings back the days when the phonograph rested in the den instead of in the home entertainment center, when quadraphonic might have been a malapropism for something in The Phantom of the Opera . Other backwords involve longer journeys in time: straight razors were the only razors around until the emergence of safety razors, which have in turn ceded precedence to the injector-blade and finally the twin-blade.

  • The first category of altered expressions resembles malapropism in all its unintentional oddysey.

  • Fluellen first compares Henry to Alexander the Pig , is corrected by Gower, defends his malapropism, then goes on to say that the reason Alexander and Henry are alike is they both kill their friends!


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