Learn COLLOQUIALISM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
1. I'll be as damn colloquial as I want to.
2. It's hard to understand the colloquial idioms of a foreign language.
3. His colloquialisms seemed to Carol no more lax than their habitual slang.
4. Ziad typically adopts the colloquialism of his generation and effectively captures village and mountain dialects as well.
5. He might have to explain colloquial English to her, but he did not have to explain the intangibles of their lives and work.
Meanings and Examples of COLLOQUIALISM |