Sentence examples for colloquial terms from inspiring English sources

For the dissent that she read from the bench, she rewrote her opinion in colloquial terms.

No one seems uncomfortable the next day, however, when Senta suggests, in highly colloquial terms, that Jason be castrated.

In the world beyond psychiatric jargon, narcissists are usually known by the more colloquial terms of "bully" or "abuser".

Merton also coined colloquial terms such as "self-fulfilling prophecy" and "role models," and he wrote at length on the concept of serendipity.

He distinguishes marital sex, which he defines in stultifying Latinate words like intercourse and vagina, from single man sex, which he characterizes in colloquial terms.

"This is definitely a hadrosaur," Marisa said as she brushed off the outlines of a skull, "or to put it in more colloquial terms, a duck-billed dinosaur".

In Nigeria — and in some other parts of Africa — Apollo is the colloquial term for conjunctivitis.

Other sea vessels were also impacted by the weather bombs - the colloquial term for explosive cyclogenesis.

La Scarbitta is a colloquial term that refers to sopping up sauce with bread.

(The word is a colloquial term for a tree with the roots still attached).

Laobaixing, or "old hundred names," is a colloquial term for the masses.