Example sentences for: slang

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

  • heebie-jeebies (1) Slang for a state of apprehension and fearfulness.

  • The fantasy comes within an inch of seeming pathetic, but Beatty (who co-wrote the script with Jeremy Pikser) is savvy enough to give Bulworth a coked-up campaign manager (the brilliant Oliver Platt) whose jittery attempts at black slang throw the senator's more soulful conversion into relief.

  • Although yarda appears to be a pochismo (Chicano slang), it can be found in Cassell’s Spanish Dictionary.

  • One of the interesting phenomena in Serbian slang is the rapid influx of English.

  • I take the liberty of reprinting the glossary here, because some of the terms are far from common ( chippy, hootch , and century are perhaps the more familiar) and many are not included in standard dictionaries of slang:


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