Example sentences for: neologism

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

  • He rhymed it with pandemonium ; judging from the lawsuits which proliferate over condominium parking spaces, balcony barbecues, and pets pooping in the halls, he might have been right to use the neologism.

  • Chimp neologism for a stale pastry: "cookie rock."

  • "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)."

  • ' Take musuko `son,' the standard Japanese slang word for penis, translate it into English, add play , and you have a sprightly and newfangled neologism.

  • 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.


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