Sentence examples for innocuous terms from inspiring English sources

The symptoms included a feeling of hopelessness and chronic irritation at the mention of "BP," "Deepwater Horizon" and any combination of the usually innocuous terms "spill," "containment" and "cap".

Bush's speechwriter, Michael Gerson, himself an evangelical, laces the President's addresses with seemingly innocuous terms that the devout recognize as laden with meaning: "whirlwind," "work of mercy," "safely home," "wonder-working power".

While the 18 boys and men charged with the attack were described in innocuous terms except that a few had criminal records, I was shocked to see the article report that town residents said the 11-year-old girl "dressed older than her age, wearing makeup and fashions more appropriate to a woman in her 20s".

Starting Tuesday afternoon in China, searches of innocuous terms like “Beijing Olympics” returned error messages on Google.com.hk, Google.com in the U.S. and other international Google sites.

At the same time, my students were also beginning to encounter white supremacist sites through search terms like "KKK" and even innocuous terms like "Martin Luther King".

Take the seemingly innocuous term fruity.

She urged the abolition of China's "re-education-through-labour" system, an innocuous term for its brutal gulag.

This innocuous term is in fact designed to allow Israel to snatch even more than 78% of Palestine, exchanging worthless desert for prime real estate.

I declared myself gay and a cross-dresser: "gay" because although I felt attracted to males who were somehow female, I still considered them men; and "cross-dresser" because it seemed the most innocuous term.

Westport's lifeguard staff was advised Aug. 4 to watch for what Ms. Nelson called "floatables," an innocuous term that defines any debris from a sewage treatment plant, from toilet paper to raw sewage.

Labor can be difficult on the back as well, especially if the baby is positioned in such a way as to cause what's called "back labor", another innocuous term for intense lower back pain, generally thought to be caused by the baby's head pushing against the lower back.