Sentence examples for expressive wording from inspiring English sources

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Teach them expressive words, so they can express themselves.

For example: "Man, that's deep!" You might insert the f-word within words to express excitement or ecstasy by inserting into strong expressive words to add humorous improvisation.

Jimmy himself is a closet romantic, hoarding old expressive words, but he has to fight hard against all this knowingness.

Under a photograph of herself taken that bitter winter of 1946-47, in a cold and snowy London, she wrote in her photograph album a single, expressive word: "Nadir".

Given the panoply of colorful language that Samuel L. Jackson has used in his film career it would not seem to require much effort to get him to enunciate another expressive word of the 4-, 8- or 12-letter variety.

Why has no one in the history of this beautiful and damnably maddening language come up with a better and more expressive word than "culture" to refer to the good stuff?

Still, he reports that his father, a clerical officer in the National Debt Office, did, when asked to fill out his occupation on a form, write the single expressive word "Drudgery".

The first they called blanditia, a vague but expressive word by which they meant softness of outline, warmth of colouring, a fine and almost voluptuous feeling for beauty of every kind, and a pleading and melancholy tenderness; this is most obvious in his descriptive passages and in his portrayal of emotion.

Or are the noises related to something else altogether? A. The rumbling or growling sounds of the digestive tract, which scientists call by the very expressive word borborygmi, represent the muscular contractions and expansions of peristalsis, the process that moves the contents of the stomach and intestines onward and downward.

-- No more "good," "bad" or "fun": Teachers implore students to use more expressive words.

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