Sentence examples for conventional words from inspiring English sources

Mr. Branwyn's gripe with the way conventional words are made slang is twofold.

I have just been reading, in this careful book of a most intelligent & learned man, a number of flat conventional words & sentences.

Just as thought depends on the species or likenesses of external things, mental words are likenesses of conventional words and have exactly the same semantic force.

On Twitter, "younger persons talk more about themselves and use more chat language such as haha, XD," the researchers wrote, "while older people use more conventional words indicating support or wishing well (e.g. wish, enjoy, thanks, take care)." For those of you over 30: XD is a synonym for LOL; it represents a laughing face shown sideways.

He murmured a conventional word of thanks as he left.

These often have different grammatical rules, and thus different conventional word orders.

With Netflix and Amazon, I think there are 94 broadcasters, to use a conventional word, making drama in America.

For our word ladders today let's do a conventional word ladder (only letter substitution, no anagramming, or adding or subtracting letters) to go from BLUNT to SHARP.

The BBC's drama chief, Ben Stephenson, told journalists last month: "With Netflix and Amazon, I think there are 94 broadcasters, to use a conventional word, making drama in America..

This conventional wording means that a picture bears a faint connection to a master's oeuvre, but is neither by him nor by an artist working in his workshop.

It does follow, however, that conventional word meanings are not the final constituents of complete propositions (see Allot & Textor 2012).