Sentence examples for into slang from inspiring English sources

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I have seen the use of that word creeping into slang.

Nothing quite obliterates sentimental associations with the Lower East Side like the transformation of "knish" into slang for female genitalia.

Storyboard's goal with "Magna Carta Story," he said, was to "translate Jay's music into slang gesture and into formal gesture".

** Nothing quite obliterates sentimental associations with the Lower East Side like the transformation of "knish" into slang for female genitalia.

Each related to his audience the same way, too — speaking in a stentorian formal Arabic, only to lapse into slang when offering a joke or a casual aside.

Mel Gibson is made to say "I prefer one tyrant 3,000 miles away to 3,000 tyrants one mile away" -- a garbled quote from Boston Tory Mather Byles -- and then lapses back into slang.

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ALL too often discussions about climate change turn into slanging matches between those who think the apocalypse is imminent, and those who believe that global warming is a preposterous scare story.

Public meetings called to explain the new measures have descended into slanging matches between officials and residents, incensed that they are being asked to do more to cover for their leaders' fiscal incompetence, just as the fabric of civic life is being ripped to shreds.

About the only writing flaw is an occasional tendency to lapse into groovy slang.

Rendering American slang into Chinese is a special challenge.

The pear-shaped vowels of Brighella (Reg E. Cathey) lapse happily into Jamaican street slang.

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