Sentence examples for using an old term from inspiring English sources

"Shunpiking is real," he said, using an old term for avoiding toll roads.

A woman who says her friend is "woke" is using an old term, but she's giving it a precise new spin: a balance of alertness, awareness, and social-justice urgency that would otherwise require a paragraph to explain.

"Blinded by the Right" shows how deeply the conservatism of the past fifteen years or so was and is — to use an old term of abuse not much heard nowadays — reactionary.

"Bob likes to write tickets," Mr. Weill says, using an old brokerage term for booking trades.

They invented the resort fee (or more accurately, they appropriated the use of an old term used by actual resorts).

This maybe using shade sails, tree cover (selecting more drought hardy trees or palms) or a short term solution using an old sheet or dust cloth during extreme weather.

In its next-to-most-recent incarnation, as ISIS, the group sought to challenge "colonialist" borders by using an old Arab geographical term al-Sham that applies eiterm al-Sham thatn capplies Damascus, or to theitherr region of toe Levanthehence the official American preference for calling it ISyrian State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, rather than ISIS.

I doubt that before today, any urbanist writer has used an old, Latin term that lives on in southern Italy, to explain the particular wonder of certain city street-ends.