Example sentences for: slang

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

  • Where the purpose of anti-language is to be secretive, slang is often offensive.

  • This might (otherwise) be a fine piece of work, but I happened to open it to the question, “The slang expression `knothead' was first used in what popular work of American literature?”

  • The strangest Serbian slang word for homosexual is Shekspir Shakespeare.

  • Anti-language is divergence on a grand scale, and most varieties of slang are at least sympathetic to the philosophy and purposes of anti-language.

  • Earlier, J. C. Hotten's Slang Dictionary suggested it might be a corruption of contentious . Most dictionaries today accept the theory that it arose from a Middle English word conteck `quarrelling' or `contention.


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