How to Use swear word in a Sentence

swear word

noun
  • You guys suck, every swear word in the book, up and down.
    cleveland, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Williams then let out a swear word and apologized to reporters.
    Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2020
  • For $60, the Cuss Collar, which fastens around a dog's neck, will spit out a swear word every time your dog barks.
    Alicia Lee, CNN, 16 Feb. 2020
  • What followed was around an hour of skits, rap songs, cameos, and dancing peppered with swear words and sexist jokes.
    Taylor Lorenz, The Atlantic, 16 June 2018
  • It could be reduced to a flurry of shock tweets—a slap here, a swear word there, and a bonus shot of the silliest garment on display.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The research team found that volunteers were able to keep their hands submerged in the frigid water for longer while repeating the swear word.
    Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Roger unloads a string of swear words each November as my ever burgeoning surplus is lowered from the rafters.
    azcentral, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Clearly, Lue was exasperated, even toward the end, with one of his last words before exiting a swear word.
    Broderick Turner Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2021
  • And there were plenty of Georgian motifs, including sweatshirts printed with the country’s name its native script — and shirts printed with what Gvasalia says is the worst swear word in his language.
    Kristen Bateman, The Cut, 2 July 2018
  • That punishment, popular with some parents a half-century or more ago, was often levied after a child uttered a swear word close enough for Mom or Dad to hear.
    Maureen C. Gilmer, Indianapolis Star, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The participants then rated each swear word in their own language on a scale of 0 to 100, from least to most offensive, and on another scale from least common to most commonly used.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Dec. 2022
  • One will include broadcasting games on a seven-second delay in case microphones pick up an errant swear word.
    Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 17 July 2020
  • Yet as the novel coronavirus continues to redefine life, everyone in the print industry may be reaching soon for same swear word.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 25 Mar. 2020
  • The film’s trailer included some dialogue, which featured Hindi swear words.
    Nyay Bhushan, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2018
  • For all their shock value, swear words are practical and elastic, capable of threatening aggression or coaxing a laugh.
    The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Back in those ancient days, people even had hobbies other than crafting unnecessary protest signs featuring a mix of exotic swear words and scary emojis.
    Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 26 Jan. 2018
  • What gives a swear word its power is partly its meaning—typically referring coarsely to bodily parts and functions—and partly its sound.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Although all of the Squad members have said President Trump should be impeached, Tlaib's call for impeachment attracted the most attention — because of one particular swear word.
    Jason Silverstein, CBS News, 16 July 2019
  • Working with a second set of fluent speakers, the researchers requested that the individuals identify which word in a pair of imaginary, invented words was a swear word, based solely on its sound.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Rocky Lombardi’s four-letter swear word slip-up during his postgame interview was understandable.
    Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 1 Nov. 2020
  • Experiments show that swear words learned early are pulse quickeners, memory sharpeners and pain killers.
    Emma Byrne, Time, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Splinter had such a deal with Yahoo—until, after Yahoo repeatedly complained about headlines containing swear words, the portal ended the arrangement.
    Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Whether rising to consult a dictionary, delivering a full-throated rendering of the all-star swear word, or simply sending up the mock seriousness of the enterprise with wry humor, Cage’s appearances are genuine highlights.
    oregonlive, 6 Jan. 2021
  • That means leveraging Microsoft's existing efforts in speech-to-text machine-learning algorithms to automatically filter out swear words that might come up in an Xbox Live party chat.
    Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2019

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