Sentence examples for strange terms from inspiring English sources

It has been an encouraging several days for BP, but it comes after many engineering efforts that produced little but a lexicon of strange terms, all defining failure: containment dome, junk shot and top kill among them.

Thirdly, he must have strange terms and emphatical words … Fourthly, … such gestures of body as may lead away the spectators eyes from a strict and diligent beholding his manner of conveyance.

Such is a cross-party con-trick that you also hear from the commentariat: an imagined unity of interest between millionaires and the "aspirational" residents of Gould's suburbs, usually expressed in very strange terms indeed.

These seem to be strange terms and the origins of some of these names may appear obscure.

These strange terms have just begun to enter the business lexicon, but the hype surrounding them has reached a fever pitch.

A host of strange terms including "Cumulative Impact Zones", "Saturation Zones", "Early Morning Restriction Orders" and "Late Night Levies" all compete with one another to impose more restrictions.

But what a strange term "straight-acting" is.

Its centrepiece is a gathering of what are known as "erasure poems" – a strange term as what Smith is doing is the opposite of erasure.

Adams replied that she thought the "difficult" pay deals were "sensible business decisions" and that she couldn't recall using such a "strange term" as sweetener.

"I don't see those as sweeteners I see those as sensible business decisions," she says, describing "sweeteners" as a "strange term".

At Monday's hearing Adams said she could not recall using the word "sweetener" – which she described as a "strange term" – when asked repeatedly by Stephen Barclay, the Conservative MP and PAC committee member who obtained the email.