Style of the language used for casual communication.
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Examples for "colloquialism "
Examples for "colloquialism "
1 He had personal reasons to know the fundamental accuracy of the colloquialism .
2 There, Mr. Editor, you have a pleasing comminglement of romance and colloquialism .
3 But in everyday speech a certain amount of colloquialism is inevitable.
4 The richness of colloquialism moved the vicar of Mount Dunstan to deep enjoyment.
5 The colloquialism escaped Homosoto, but he got the gist of it.
1 An abbreviation of Betwixt, used in poetry, or in colloquial language .
2 That was the original language of the Bible, a colloquial language .
3 Its satirical tone, contemporary colloquial language and run-on style are both amusing and annoying.
4 It is not just a colloquial language , Buthelezi said.
5 Or, as she also puts it using more colloquial language , "the whole caboodle comes back".
1 What would be a casual speech on the tongue of another becomes significant, when he has given one of his original twists to it.
2 Like other self-made men who had come to New York-like Selma herself-hehad shrunk from and deplored at first the lighter tone of casual speech .
1 Bunyan originated this colloquial style , and Defoe and Richardson were his imitators.
2 Mr. Sprudell had a jaunty, colloquial style when he stooped to prose.
3 Perrin was nettled, for he prided himself on his colloquial style .
4 All other translations follow colloquial style for quick comprehension.
5 Alan laughed at the man's inflated English, and answered in a more nervous and colloquial style :
1 His colloquial speech accorded badly with his formal tone.
2 But the Colonel's colloquial speech was apt to be fragmentary incoherencies of his larger oratorical utterances.
3 The phraseology is less literary, and more taken from the colloquial speech and the usage of everyday life.
4 He did not use them to show off, but because they seemed to him more adequate than colloquial speech .
5 The wheel which he had jogged so agreeably had come full round, and, in colloquial speech , had biffed him in the eye.
1 I shuddered as the man grew colloquial-andwith familiar speech of another day.
2 Very careful, prudent, precise persons are seldom entertaining in familiar speech .
3 Everything has its due season, familiar speech and formal speech.
4 Mr. Calton, construing her silence and averted head into some resentment of his familiar speech , continued hurriedly:-
5 Peyton ignored the now familiar speech .
1 They cross the line going from informal language to a physics lesson.
2 She loved being their informal language teacher.
3 People write back in the first person, using the informal language of the web, and Trump retweets messages from his followers.
4 Of course, with short e-mail messages that use informal language , as opposed to long documents, the need for editing or correction is minimal.
5 Since that December, the informal language of the SMS and other digital platforms has become a social concern, especially for its effect on kids.
1 The doctor had been "at him," so to speak, searching the depths of him with a probing acuteness the casual language had disguised.
1 I couldn't help myself and I kept my voice to a low register because Hayden was in the vicinity.
2 He seeks the fundamental tones of the Maket pipes in the first or low register , an octave below the normal pitch.
3 His face always grave, yet strong and comforting, his voice unwavering, yet muted to a low register , he commanded the mourning ritual.
4 Her range is good, with a lovely full low register , a firm middle register and no appreciable trace of [strain in the top.
5 "You mustn't go." Ominously, Ellen's voice dipped to the low register .
6 "Do wake up," she repeated raucously with the low register of her voice.
7 "I just don't like his controlling behavior." His voice drops to a theatrically low register .
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This collocation consists of: Translations for low register