Sample sentences for COLLOQUIAL

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Definition

an informal style that sounds like spoken rather than written language

She writes beautiful songs with colloquial lyrics that touch the heart.

colloquial = an informal style that sounds like spoken rather than written language

He talked with richness and depth without loosing his colloquial charm.
My choices of language (...colloquial),
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye

colloquial = an informal style that sounds like spoken rather than written language

(Colloquially) Little cooler than it was.
Thornton Wilder -- Our Town

colloquially = in an informal style

Brilliant, but he was . . . what's the colloquial term for it? A suck-up.
Veronica Roth -- Insurgent

colloquial = an informal style that sounds like spoken rather than written language

...the immediate apprehension of a broken neck, would, in the colloquial phrase, put him in a state.
Joseph Conrad -- The Secret Agent
wrote her letters in a colloquial style
Our colloquial term for this is that we're a multimedia cathedral.
Michael Novak
I have relied on Chen's colloquial translation of many things, including the Tang dynasty poem that Lily and Snow Flower wrote on each other's bodies.
Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
On the other hand it is not concerned with fake simplicity and the attempt to make written English colloquial.
George Orwell -- Politics and the English Language
He is much more a man of fuzziness and feelings, feelings are his cup of tea, so to speak—if you'll forgive me the colloquial phrase.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
We were alert to the gap separating the written word from the colloquial.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
"Can't, might set the black damp off," the old miner said, using the colloquial term for methane.
Homer Hickam -- October Sky
I have known eager opponents of democracy who allowed their children to address them with perfect colloquial equality.
Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
I didn't know what to make of his gesture save its unorthodoxy, its colloquial and unprofessional tone.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
Salander is, to put it in colloquial terms, stark raving mad.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
A colloquial density that makes family life the one medium of sense knowledge in which an astonishment of heart is routinely contained.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
Well, it was a colloquial expression, Charlie would say.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
The final part of Indoc involved boats-the fabled IBS (inflatable boat, small) or, colloquially, itty-bitty ship.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
For some little time the jurymen hang about the Sol's Arms colloquially.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House

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