Example sentences for: slag

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

  • Other linguists who have taken on the chalenge of doing so include Jonathan Green, Hotten, Grose, William and Mary Morris, Wentworth and Flexner, and Eric Partridge, who published the first edition of his enormous Dictionary of Slag and Unconvential English in 1937.

  • Youth slag, soldier slang, actor slang, gay slang, CB slang — the list is endless.

  • Wrongly accused of being a lazy language, youth slag is, in fact, as complex and rhythmic as any dialect.

  • Phillip Gellburg is an upscale Willy Loman who has devoted his life to a company that throws him onto the slag heap as soon as he begins to falter.

  • This outdated prison slang is used almost nostalgically, in the same way that some people still employ Cockney rhyming slag (which was once itself an anti-language).


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