Sample Sentences for
colloquial
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    (Colloquially) Little cooler than it was.  (source)
    Colloquially = in an informal style
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    "Can't, might set the black damp off," the old miner said, using the colloquial term for methane.†  (source)
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    Or did that line mean blow the whistle in the colloquial sense, as in "to reveal a secret or alert someone to a crime"?†  (source)
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    Inside the château they spoke a terse form of colloquial Office Hebrew that was beyond the reach of mere translators.†  (source)
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    Hiro is armed with two swords and a nine-millimeter semiautomatic pistol, known colloquially as a nine, with two ammunition clips, each carrying eleven rounds.†  (source)
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    Instead of the more proper "as if," I'd used the colloquial "like"—e.†  (source)
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    He was down in a subbasement room known colloquially as the Tank because its metal walls were dotted with electronic noisemakers to foil other electronic devices.†  (source)
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    We were alert to the gap separating the written word from the colloquial.†  (source)
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    The final part of Indoc involved boats-the fabled IBS (inflatable boat, small) or, colloquially, itty-bitty ship.†  (source)
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    Well, it was a colloquial expression, Charlie would say.†  (source)
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    During my stay at Starkfield I lodged with a middle-aged widow colloquially known as Mrs. Ned Hale.†  (source)
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    Salander is, to put it in colloquial terms, stark raving mad.†  (source)
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    He spoke to Philip in correct, rather archaic English, having learned it from a study of the English classics, not from conversation; and it was odd to hear him use words colloquially which Philip had only met in the plays of Shakespeare.†  (source)
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