Sentence examples for making up words from inspiring English sources
We were just making up words as we went".
(Lewis's penchant for making up words like Jabberwocky didn't make it any easier).
In his never-ending bid to make himself colourful Mark Lawrenson is making up words.
Ms. Diamonstein-Spielvogel said she loved making up words and using other languages, so Scrabble was a favorite pastime.
"From a distance," Eggers writes, "she resembled a perpetually drunk adult – bumping into things, yelling randomly, making up words.
Smith is a trickster, an etymologist, a fantasist, a pun-freak, an ontologist, a transgenrenatrix, an ypomonist — O.K., now I'm just making up words.
Buttonophobia is a made up word, and as you said, coulrophobia is a fear of clowns.
"Hemp is a made up word," DEA spokesperson Rusty Payne told me.
When calling somebody a noob, you are calling yourself an unclever fool whose best insult is nothing more than a made up word, so use the word sparingly.
For that we have Unwords.com, a dictionary devoted to made-up words.
It's not really a tradition, but my dad and his family have made-up words.
