Example sentences for: unmentionables

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

  • In the nineteenth century, the Age of Euphemism, the word unmentionables designated only one specific referent--men's trousers.

  • How clever it is, though, that metaphor, the great facilitating factor in the changing of word meanings, has carefully camouflaged the unmentionables of the current day.

  • Actually, in the preceding dialogue, three ladies from the highest level of society can be cited for innocently mentioning the unmentionables in no less than twenty-plus instances, to wit:

  • Most will agree that euphemism is an acceptable means of avoiding the unmentionables, unutterables, inexplicables, ineffables, inexpressibles, and whatever else they have been called.

  • ' For most Americans, unmentionables probably does not cover (pun intended) the body parts beneath those undergarments and certainly does not include “curses and biological functions.”


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