How to Use lingo in a Sentence
lingo
noun- It can be hard to travel in a foreign country if you don't speak the lingo.
- The book has a lot of computer lingo that I don't understand.
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The good thing about that is with how the plays are called and the lingo.
— Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2019 -
Adapt, learn the lingo and maybe even eat lunch with the band geeks.
— Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023 -
The off-roaders gotta have their own style lingo, dude.
— Tribune News Service, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2021 -
In that case, the lingo more or less matches what the Almanac says.
— Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023 -
Everything from our lingo, to our style and aura is unique to the world and sets the pace.
— Essence, 7 Feb. 2022 -
To me these sports are fine arts, each with their own special world of gear, rules, and lingo.
— Erin Berger, Outside Online, 19 July 2019 -
Some of the lingo in the tale, a comic noir set mostly in the 1940s, comes directly from the books and movies of that era.
— Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 17 May 2022 -
Most of its members share the same legal system and talk the same lingo.
— The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018 -
In the lingo of big AI, the dataset contains 500 billion tokens.
— Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024 -
The lingo, according to the restaurant chain, first gained traction in the mid-1980s.
— Henri Hollis, ajc, 13 Aug. 2019 -
In the lingo, this imaginary place is known as the Metaverse.
— James Heskett, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2021 -
In plumbing lingo, these ridges are called splines or points.
— Washington Post, 12 July 2021 -
Kayfabe, a dialect of pig Latin, lingo for the promise to drop at the laying on of hands.
— Gregory Pardlo, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021 -
That man is always the head referee or, in their own lingo, the white hat.
— Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 22 Aug. 2019 -
So, avoid the buzzy lingo—or at least back it up with actionable words.
— Jeff Schmitz, Forbes, 24 June 2022 -
Like so much else in the lingo of U.S. politics, the answer lies in horse racing.
— Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2020 -
Editor's note: The use of 'hard' is a play on lingo, a way of saying someone looks hot, in this case.
— Marjua Estevez, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2018 -
No worries: there’s a big bubble—trail lingo for the bulge of hikers who start at about the same time in the spring and head up the trail more or less at the same pace.
— Karen Berger, Outside Online, 28 June 2021 -
When he was hired, the lingo sounded over-the-top and easy to dismiss as the musings of a hyperactive mind.
— Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2020 -
Collins spent weeks with jockeys, doing grunt work in the barn, learning the lingo, earning their trust.
— Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021 -
Hedy Lamarr was, to use the old studio lingo, a bombshell, one of the most glamorous stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
— Susan King, latimes.com, 13 Dec. 2017 -
As empires rise, fall and repeat, there’s little mention of the foods, fashion or lingo of the Realm.
— Stephen Kearse, Washington Post, 17 July 2024 -
Perhaps, to use startup lingo, food prep doesn’t scale well.
— Joe Veix, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2017 -
The stop-motion flow, the lingo, the dances, and the inherent waviness of Brooklyn drill signify the coolest city on the planet.
— Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2022 -
Uber, not Lyft, became the default verb in ride-sharing lingo.
— Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 19 July 2017 -
Pour on the dark, smoky, secret-recipe dip (Lexington lingo for sauce).
— Frances Bailey, Country Living, 7 July 2014 -
However, there is a way to break through the marketing lingo to find a toothpaste that’s best for your teeth.
— Barbara Bellesi Zito, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2023 -
He’s got to talk about war-specific terms and communist lingo.
— Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024
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