Example sentences for: unmentionables

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

  • By far the oddest offering of the week is A&E's Unmentionables: A Brief History (Sun.

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

  • In modern dialogue, which in no sense approaches the gentility of the perfumed puritanicals, the denotation of unmentionables has broadened to include body organs, curses, and biological functions.

  • ' 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.”

  • While it is the function of metaphor to conceal the unmentionables, it is likewise the pleasurable business of etymology to expose them.


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