Sentence examples for personal lexicon from inspiring English sources
"personal lexicon" is correct and usable in written English
It is used to refer to a person's collection of words and phrases that they are familiar with but which may not be widely known or accepted. For example, "My personal lexicon includes many words from my native language that not everyone may be familiar with."
In Maradona's personal lexicon, the same word does duty for both goalscoring and fornication.
And danger, and its opposite escape, figure high in Redford's personal lexicon.
The name of the protein fueling his cancer had become part of his personal lexicon: it was called B-RAF, he told his poker buddies.
In my personal lexicon, voguism means "a word or phrase in fashion, used by writers who are with-it and then repeated endlessly by politicians and public intellectuals unable to assert their relevance without it; a breeze-by bromide, a cliché without staying power".
Over the years, I have turned to Benjamin Britten for his cool, brutally elegant characterizations and the finest personal lexicon of articulation markings of any opera composer.
Ever since, Trump has incorporated the phrase "law and order" into his personal lexicon, dropping the expression into conversations regarding "inner cities" and police brutality with his signature incomprehensible intensity.
Yet the two are building a personal shorthand: a lexicon of phrases like "zombie gag" (meaning the weekly scene of undead mayhem) and "volcano of murder" (which they would not explain yet).
John (supplanter) Davidson's exhaustive review of "A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names" in the London Review of Books takes a rollicking look at the history and consequence of naming.
DK has received personal fees from Amgen, Bayer, Lexicon, Xradia and Arcarios.
Clinton used the Republican lexicon of toughness and personal responsibility to camouflage a program whose overall thrust was egalitarian and redistributive.
But by arriving at a moment of maximal national frustration, the movie made itself the center of an argument about society and personal identity and inserted itself into the cultural lexicon, earning money, winning awards, and lifting its creator to new heights of acclaim.
