Example sentences for: word

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

  • A common formula is a two-word phrase that opens with a Japanese company name and closes with a product name that is genuinely Western, as with Honda Ballade, Mitsubishi Colt , and Toyota Corolla , or that echoes such a word, as with Honda Acura (accurate?), Nissan Sentra (central, sentry?), and Nissan Micra (a feminization of micro ).

  • So the Aboriginal equivalent of the Creation is Dreamtime , itself a translation of alcheringa (an Aranda word), bark hut is preferred to gunyah or humpy, country to the Kamilaroi towri , and walkabout to the Nyungar pink-eye .

  • Viagra is now a household word everywhere.

  • The English word nowel is closely related to Noël , although there is a slight difference in meaning: nowel was a word shouted or sung as an expression of joy to commemorate the birth of Christ.

  • I have noticed that nearly every one-syllable first name is a homonym for an actual word.


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