Sentence examples for colloquially from inspiring English sources

Not only are they fronted by Phillip Schofield rather than Norton, but, while the televised Bafta ceremony suffers from existing not to please the audience but to appease the industry, the BSAs, as they are forlornly hoping to become colloquially known, have the even bigger problem of being established to soothe the feelings of one part of television in relation to another.

Once the Blackmen, as they are known colloquially to all communities, march, the season of parading finishes.

"Lights off", as it is colloquially, almost affectionately known, is endemic in many countries.

Lindo, whose parents came to Britain in the late 1950s from Jamaica (their national bird, incidentally, is the red-billed streamertail hummingbird, known colloquially as the "doctor bird"), has always been passionate about engaging the public in the joys of birding.

The 1996 chemistry prize was also awarded for a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene. Buckyballs, as they became known colloquially, are football-shaped molecules made of 60 carbon atoms linked by single and double bonds.

Even in trusting Britain, she came to the attention of the Security Service (colloquially known as MI5).

In reality, though, everybody knows that enlargement is ultimately a political issue, and politicians on both sides will have to strike a bargain.Their answer to the "who" question has two popular variants, known colloquially as the "big bang" and the "little bang".

These gene chips, as they are colloquially known, pick out differences in single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs, pronounced "snips")—small fragments of DNA that vary from individual to individual, and population to population.