Sentence examples for certain slang from inspiring English sources
"My question to each of these individuals is -- other than the kids wearing the colors and certain slang language that they're using -- are they doing anything that we can consider illegal," Detective Muckle said.
This was before social media and Urban Dictionary, so certain slang terms were lost for ever; one of the last casualties of the oral tradition.
Mexico, which is eager to play up its economic growth, has mounted an aggressive effort to play down its crime problems, going as far as to encourage the news media to avoid certain slang words in reports.
French slang (argot) is very, very rich, and I'm sure American slang is, too, except I can't handle it as easily, because even if certain slang words come to my mind when I write, I can never be sure about usage, history (who would say it? when? what might it signify that I'm not aware of? etc).
All of us are black, and throughout our friendship we have adopted certain slang and reference points that color our daily conversations.
His use of certain regional slang -- like the word salomati, for well being -- shows his origins in the Ferghana Valley, Central Asia's most religious region.
The idea here isn't necessarily to say that white people shouldn't use certain black slang (although by now we should all be clear on the N-word debate).
It is hard to understand how this false definition gained traction, but its existence is a testament to how little the origins or original meaning of certain black slang words are regarded.
When conditions change, the term may change in meaning, be adopted into the standard language, or continue to be used as slang within certain enclaves of the population.
In Western languages, the metaphor owes its power to echoes of sympathetic magic, and slang utilizes certain attributes of the metaphor to evoke images too close for comfort to "reality".
The characters also go to see The Wizard of Oz, because the last word of that title is slang for a certain antipodean country, geddit?
