The word "oral" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is spoken or expressed by the mouth, such as words or sounds. Example sentence: My presentation skills have improved drastically since I took an oral communication course.
But there was a problem: the compulsory oral exam, worth 20% of his overall marks.
On Monday, the US supreme court will hear oral arguments in the Sheehan case, to decide whether and how disabilities regulations apply to police policies and procedures during arrests.
NGOs are also required to mark their publications with the term, and start any oral statement with a disclosure that it is being delivered by a foreign agent.
They are obliged to mark all their publications with "foreign agent" and to begin each oral statement with a disclosure that it is being given by a foreign agent.
I am not an emergency medicine trainee, and have never had formal A&E training: I'm training in oral and maxillofacial surgery (maxfacs).
As Joanna Biggs points out in her fabulous just-published oral history of Britain at work, All Day Long: "The nation of shopkeepers has become a nation of disappointed bakers and momentarily cheerful hotdog men.
Justice Thomas, silent as usual during oral argument, is also likely to oppose the individual mandate.
A former US solicitor general once told me that, in his opinion, oral argument only makes a difference in the outcome of 5% of the cases before the US supreme court.
As part of its oral history program the Museum of Australian Democracy, located in Old Parliament House, recently interviewed Menzies' former interior minister, Doug Anthony, about how Menzies agreed to shift the monument.
"Laughing gas as a pestle and mortar," Laura Mitchison, an oral historian, murmurs with wonder.
It's an abstraction of a part of a ship, and there's a timeline of the story of the home front in one direction and, in the other, quotes from the women – Rosies – whose oral histories we have.
