Sentence examples for colloquial phrases from inspiring English sources

A few contemporary colloquial phrases make subdued but significant appearances in the text.

We can teach people which forms of English are acceptable without thinking of the more colloquial phrases and words as errors.

She flourishes her educated diction ("perused", "forbearance") while tripping into colloquial phrases ("Mrs Bligh stare on me", "an educated woman such as I").

Mr Chatel added that the president specifically avoids "amphigoric style and syntactic convolution".When he was first elected in 2007 Mr Sarkozy's fondness for verbs over abstract nouns, and colloquial phrases over official waffle, felt refreshing.

"Even colloquial phrases like 'just shoot me now,'" can be stigmatizing, she explained.

Again, nothing sucks here, and the songwriting is strong though jammed with forced colloquial phrases and cliches.

He invariably drives home a point with a punchy aphorism or puts a spin on a sentence with a colloquial phrase, an unexpected word.

Just the colloquial phrase "popping the question" suggests a sort of controlled thrill, like a life-changing jack-in-the-box.

While such a colloquial phrase, such as this, is deeply embedded into our global society, is it possible to veer away from such a narrow-sighted mentality?

His voice carries its special mix of ordinary colloquial phrasing ("God knows... ain't... I mean... ..) and singular word-play ("inklings... inkles").

With its mix of ordinary colloquial phrasing and singular wordplay, the result is a peculiar, witty meeting of Wordsworthian sentiment and teenage American demotic, and a voice that is very much Vernon's own.