Example sentences for: pidgin

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

  • I have rarely known a situation so bad that a few words of pidgin could not make it seem a little brighter.

  • Borak was a negative in the Victorian language Wathawurung and was one of a comparatively small number of words which the Aboriginal languages collectively contributed to an on-the-whole short-lived Australian pidgin.

  • Thus the languages of the New South Wales inland—Wiradhuri and Kamilaroi and its dialect Yuwaalaraay—formed part of a borrowing continuum which began with Dharuk and which incorporated the Australian pidgin which David Collins, an officer of the First Fleet, had described as a barbarous mixture of English with the Port Jackson dialect.

  • One's outrage over some disastrous contretemps is alleviated somewhat by the culprit's risible attempts to explain away the circumstances of his crime in pidgin.

  • They are promptly exported across the Atlantic, so that all Britain now speaks pidgin German.


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