How to Use argot in a Sentence

argot

noun

• Something of a dandy, Toby runs a rough assortment of helpers—babysitters and pavement artists, in the argot of the trade.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• The term is an example of a curious upstairs-downstairs argot in what is at its core a working-class sport.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 25 July 2019
• In the United States, basic mental-health care remains a luxury item; there’s a reason that the most fluent speakers of the trending argot tend to be wealthy and white.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2021
• Mrs. Trump, a former model, who impressed the designer with her command of fashion argot, had her own ideas.
  — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2017
• Among the war’s contributions to the American argot was that of the teetotaling secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels.
  — Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
• This is a poem rendered in rough and rowdy seaman’s argot, about a petty officer dying in his hammock.
  — Colin Fleming, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
• The problem with that, of course, is that unpredictability — what is rather grandly known in the sport’s argot as competitive balance — is at least part of the secret of soccer’s appeal.
  — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2021
• During her time at Breitbart, McHugh consistently made racially charged statements on her Twitter feed and used the argot of the alt-right twittersphere.
  — Rosie Gray, The Atlantic, 7 June 2017
• The world of mainstream Democratic politics gives voice to these sentiments in a more familiar argot, one aimed at voters rather than activists.
  — New York Times, 8 June 2022
• The best of these stories double as primers on the curious, whispered rituals of the West Wing, its coded self-assertions and exclusionary argot.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 29 Sep. 2017
• Instead of a clubhouse on the beach, there’s a virtual global juvenile hall, where kids gather, invent an argot, adopt alter egos, and shoot one another down.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
• One hundred percent green, in Kirby’s argot, means carbon neutrality with a twist.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2020
• If ever a company was self-consciously focused on making an impact—changing the world, in the argot of Fortune’s annual list—it’s Apple (aapl, -1.59%).
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2017
• Even the distinctive accent and argot of East Los Angeles has roots there, according to ethnolinguists.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
• Characters speak in modern slang, Shakespearean verse, ’80s pop lyrics and that timeless argot of clumsy melodrama.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• In the traditional account of this process, a creole most often arose from a pidgin: a simple, improvised argot drawing most of its words from the (usually European) languages of the masters.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018
• Her speech—casual, chatty—is inflected with the argot of the Washington policy circuit.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2022
• Yet the quant argot is useful when considering perhaps the biggest fear stalking financial markets: a sustained rise in inflation that would be bad for both equities and bonds.
  — The Economist, 6 Mar. 2021
• While these long motion-capture sequences crackle with thrilling technical argot and are pretty interesting in themselves, the real plot lies elsewhere.
  — Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2021
• And then there’s his inborn ear for every shade of human babble, here a transcendent four-hander, there a screwball travelogue, everywhere argot and idiolect and argument.
  — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• Every generation develops a new argot to separate itself from the one before.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2022
• Leaders of the Democratic Party, eagerly chasing these semantic developments, have taken up the new argot, too.
  — Philip Kennicott, The Denver Post, 24 May 2017
• Still, the statement did at least mark a telltale pivot away from the site’s native argot of technological utopianism, which continually worked to present itself as a neutral platform that more-or-less spontaneously brought the world together.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 7 Oct. 2017
• That means the companies must translate the demanding argot of genetics — alleles and phenotypes and centromeres — into something approachable, even simple, for physicians and laypersons alike.
  — Thomas Goetz, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2007
• Melding the argots of Silicon Valley and self-care, Joyous delivers treatment primarily by text message, replete with exclamation points and emojis.
  — Chris Hamby, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023
• Cobbs’s career encapsulates the shift of sensitivity training from its literary roots to corporate argot.
  — Beth Blum, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2020
• Those unfamiliar with creoles, thinking them mere patois, argot or vernacular, are missing a glorious display of the ingenuity of those speakers who turned old languages into something brilliantly new.
  — The Economist, 1 Feb. 2018

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