Sentence examples for expressive words from inspiring English sources

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.

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

In a few primarily expressive words, orthographic h has the phonetic value [h]: aa haaw "OK".

The resonance, timber and modulation of his voice gave life to his expressive words that made me part of the game.

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.