Words similar to mots
Example sentences for: mots
How can you use “mots” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Pentru barbati sont deux mots de la langue roumane; ils signifient “pour hommes” (for gentlemen).
Mostly, though, the opinion mafia decides to spend time trading bons mots.
Would Mellinkoff banish such useful words as heretofore, theretofore, hereto, and therefor ? Would we abandon the subjunctive mood, adverbs, Latin idioms, bon mots, and the like?
“Oh, you and your witty repartees and bons mots.
Modern translingual jeux d'esprit are Mots d'Heures Gousses Rames , by Luis d'Antin von Roote (New York, 1967) in which English masquerades as French; Brigid Brophy, In Transit (London, 1969); and the ultimate: Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake with their ostensibly English yet polyvalent, transliteral letter and word groups which punningly play over no fewer than fifty to sixty languages in Cheshire-catlike, now-you-see-it-now-you-don't trompes l'oeil .