Example sentences for: neologism

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

  • Even when we scorn yet another neologism with -athon , or ridicule a new -gate (as in Irangate ), or wince at alcoholic becoming chocoholic , it has already made us concentrate on language and refreshed our interest by whetting our humor.

  • Neologism is sometimes used, but it means not only a new word but also the use of new words.

  • Once the provenance of hype has been established, you can discard Murphy's elaborate apparatus for explaining overhyped . That ghastly neologism is just the latest example of the peculiar American tendency toward tautological idioms.

  • Stating that ...many words and usages exiled from East Germany now found a place as free citizens in the world of linguistic glasnost..., he cites only one, Republikflucht , which is a true East German neologism, i.e., a new crime--leaving the country-- which didn't exist before and has since been eliminated from the penal code.

  • "Islamists consider Islam to be as much a religion as an 'ideology,' a neologism which they introduced and which remains anathema to the ulamas (the clerical scholars)."


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