Sentence examples for junk words from inspiring English sources

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Particularly revealing of someone's individual style, Dr. Pennebaker noted, are what he called "junk words" like pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, particles and auxiliary verbs.

Sort of how some people sprinkle their day to day vocabulary with junk words of the "like" or "um" variety.

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Dramatic writers find novels unbearable because novelists mostly junk word on word, incident on incident... Yates describes everything with deadly precision, then goes on cutting everything closer and closer to the bone.

Rather, in the tail-end of my twenties, "sorry" has become my junk word of choice.

I don't know what I am I don't know where I've been human junk just words and so much skin stick my hands through the cage of this endless routine just some flesh caught in this big broken machine.

It's junk, in other words.

In other words, junk investors can fairly expect to earn a coupon of 9% to 10% after defaults next year.

In other words, junk plans would be allowed to continue.

The internet shrieked with aubergine emojis, commentary that used the word "junk" and suggestions this "junk" (as obscured by a big black rectangle) was in fact the rescued black box flight recorder from Flight 370.

Shortly before their 25th birthdays, they were ready to franchise, and they obtained a toll-free phone number with the word junk in it, paying a Michigan medical company $13,000 for 1-800-JUNK-USA 1-800-JUNK-USA 1-800-JUNK-USA 1-800-JUNK-USA

In this setting the word "junk" is not pejorative.

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