Example sentences for: spoken

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

  • Military slang is first spoken by soldiers, who then carry it into civilian life.

  • The vocabulary is jocular in its easy mixture of the casual (in slang or coinages or abbreviations), the learned (in avatar, baroque, catatonic, synchronous ), the visual (in hieroglyphics or emoticons), and even the aural (in the fondness for explosives, like bang , common spoken name for !) or onomatopoeia ( bletch, glitch, gonk ).

  • To better understand attitudes toward the English spoken in the UK one must be familiar with the term Received Pronunciation (RP), which the author describes as:

  • ' However, Stimson and others have pointed out that Chinese phonology does change with time and that the Old Mandarin pronunciation for `country' had a final “k” sound unlike modern Chinese as now spoken on Taiwan and the mainland.

  • Now that the president has spoken, I am in a terrible quandary.


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