Sentence examples for a word for a from inspiring English sources

Matilda – a word for a hobo's bundle.

Don't have a word for a new concept?

The English language, borrowing, as so often, from Latin, already has a word for a supreme head.

Soon he departs again, abandoning his wife Maria and two boys without a word for a new life in America.

"They drink samogon, spirits, whatever," she explained, using a word for a poisonous-smelling home-brewed vodka.

Now a word for a couple of less extravagantly gifted players, but two Set of Six favourites.

I'd been doing this for a while, attempting to define a word for an object or even a concept.

Some have staying power ("B2B"); some quickly disappeared ("vortal", a word for an industry web portal, had a mercifully brief lifespan).

Her young painter room-mate, Mirabelle, attempting to prove she is not a chatterbox, swears she will not speak a word for an entire day.

In 1939, a reader, Martin Alger, coined the phrase "bug-eyed monster" to describe one such cover; the phrase subsequently entered the dictionary as a word for an alien.

There is a word for such an idea: irresponsible.