Sentence examples for pet word from inspiring English sources
Her own pet word, "Radiance," appears often.
Ms. Dill's own pet word, "radiance," appears often in these works.
There's a peculiar, faintly illicit sensation when you consciously avail yourself of someone else's pet word.
Houston and Thomas got a kick out of hearing a pet word of Van Gundy's in this context.
Most writers have a pet word or image, one that finds its way again and again into the work and provides a key to its author's temperament.
Every poet, every novelist has his or her pet words.
I suspect that, for Conrad, "impenetrable" may have been the preferred pet among all pet words, the privileged one that sat at table with its master.
For most authors, surely, the employment of pet words is a private, solitary activity that doesn't feel fully private or solitary.
Yet, to my thinking, the real pet words are peripheral beings, only occasionally reflecting the author's deepest themes and concerns.
I teach fiction writing to both graduates and undergraduates, and I find that my students are often unaware of their pet words.
