Example sentences for: non-standard

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

  • Because of this, the approach of vendors in this domain has been to develop non-standard software, and to hold tightly to its client base.

  • One US observer has claimed that non-standard features (grammer and vocabulary as well as accent) have the power to close off a conversation among strangers, bring job interviews to an abrupt end and, when used on the telephone, to render a flat advertised as vacant that morning suddenly to be declared “already let”.

  • If the greatest single influence on the current evolution of English RP and of many non-standard accents in Britain today is the `popular' London accent, it is also true that the greatest single influence on the grammar, vocabulary, and idiom of English as spoken and written in Britain is American English.

  • In the "Living Arts" section of the NYT , the Times man in Hollywood, Bernard Weinraub, notes that after a flirtation with Arab terrorists and other sorts of non-standard villains, action movies have once again installed communists as the bad guys of choice.

  • Basic mail also includes some parcels under 11 ounces and some non-standard pieces.


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