Example sentences for: slang

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

  • Slang is slang precisely because it does not adhere to the well-defined meanings of standard usage.

  • Cockney slang for a half-crown coin was tusheroon, tossaroon, or tosheroon , a corruption of another slang term for this coin, madza caroon, a corruption of the Italian mezzo half corona crown.

  • Fortunately, the real world of computers, notwithstanding slang words to the contrary, exists somewhere between the opposing fantasies of the cold impersonality of Brave New World and the carefree innocence of Winnie the Pooh.

  • The first two are merely slang, but by the third Mr. Bedoya has become so enraged that he resorts to speaking correct English.

  • Loonie is the well-nigh universal Canadian slang term for the dollar coin.


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