Example sentences for: serbo-

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

  • 17, 2003; July 12, 2003 (in which KSM also says bojinka is not Serbo-Croatian for "big bang," as has been widely reported, but rather a nonsense word he adopted after hearing it on the front lines in Afghanistan).

  • The Serbo-Croatians, for instance, picked up the English word nylon , but took it to mean a kind of shabby and disreputable variation, so that a nylon hotel is a `brothel' while a nylon beach is where nudists frolic.

  • In the case of Serbian, language change in the nineties has been particularly active as Serbia has taken energetic measures to distance itself from its Serbo-Croatian past.


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