Sentence examples for common speech from inspiring English sources

A number of dialects remain in common speech.

That common speech is to-day almost lawless.

That became vagabonds' cant, the slang of theatre and gay nightlife, before entering our common speech.

Rather than a Shakespeare rendered in common speech, it's Shakespeare reprocessed as mediatized banalities.

"THE music of poetry must be a music latent in the common speech of its time".

In common speech the term reductio ad absurdum refers to anything pushed to absurd extremes.

Frost memorably crafted the language of common speech into traditional poetic form, with epigrammatic effect.

Too bad, in common speech, it doesn't; language is seldom ruled by logic.

I would point to Dickens's genius with common speech as an influence on my own writing.

Poetry, he adds, is improved common speech, although I think that this is only partly true.

Being an abstract term, it is rarely used in common speech, and has therefore little intuitive meaning.