Example sentences for: sibboleth

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

  • That pronunciation is a shibboleth, or rather sibboleth, in English English in terms of “U” and “non-U”--as John Betjeman noted years ago in his cautionary poem How to Get On in Society , which ends:


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