Sentence examples for enter the language from inspiring English sources

Or perhaps snuck (according to Steven Pinker, the most recent irregular verb to enter the language).

I miss the rooms I could enter, the language that sounded clear as a struck bell.

Words enter the language or leap to prominence when there is something new to describe; they stick around if there is some continuing reason to describe it.

This extremely useful football term, referring to the sacking of a quarterback from out of his field of vision, did not enter the language as a metaphor for unpleasant surprises until the nineteen-seventies.

The term "tax haven" did not enter the language until the 1950s, but the concept originated in the late 19th century, when the American state of New Jersey eased its business-registration and tax laws to drum up incorporation revenues during a fiscal squeeze.

Later, the layoffs became "reorganizations" or "consolidations," words that still suggested the normal trimming and tacking of individual companies; the acknowledgment that the entire aerospace industry might be in trouble did not enter the language until recently, when "the restructuring" became preferred usage.

I entered the language".

"Office-worker" entered the language in 1856.

Catchphrases from the book have not entered the language.

Her name has even entered the language as a verb.

The idea of the "bizarre gardening accident" has entered the language and the popular imagination.