Sentence examples for a word right from inspiring English sources

"That's a word, right?

While the word inside the box may be perfectly O.K., there is likely to be an even better word for this situation, a word right smack on the button, and why don't you try to find such a word?

Or sometimes only part of a word: right off the bat, she made the "un" in "unphotographable," one of the best words in "My Funny Valentine," an eight-syllable bonanza.

It is just a word, right?

As a final example, English speakers innately know that profanity can be used to split a word right in the middle, but only in the correct place.

Rick Perry was positively giddy as he reiterated his campaign theme: "We survived wars, we survived the great depression, we survived Jimmy Carter and we will survive Barack Obama!" His grin, after getting all the words out successfully, was like a kid getting a word right in a spelling bee.

And so he had this very clever idea which was you can actually launch — he used Google Ad Words, right?

The creators of one literacy tool, LightSail, report that many kids, especially boys, treat the embedded assessments as a competitive game, fist-pumping when they get a vocabulary word right.

"Globalization may be a dirty word right now, but it is inevitable.

Peace is a dirty word right now and will continue to be so for as long as suicide bombings hit shopping centres, school buses and restaurants.

If your computer's odds of getting a single word right are 98%, its odds of getting two words right are 98% of that 98% –or 96%.