Example sentences for: mots

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

  • Are Elaine May and Paul Rudnick really too busy to come up with bon mots for John McCain?

  • Les mots justes . Is that not the definition of political life today--in the United States as well as in the U.K.?

  • 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?

  • 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 .

  • “Oh, you and your witty repartees and bons mots.


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