jargon

in a sentence

Elegant mind was just mathtalk, that patronizing jargon the math nerds used, but it hurt Jimmy anyway.  (source) Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, 2003

I'm no fan of the latest French theory or of jargon of any stripe, but sometimes we really can't do without it.  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

In military jargon, "pax" are people.  (source) Mark Owen, No Easy Day, 2012

The air was soon thick with jargon and code.  (source) Michael Lewis, The Blind Side, 2006

Yes, those were noble names on the dusky flyleaf and, even for so poor a Latinist as he, the dusky verses were as fragrant as though they had lain all those years in myrtle and lavender and vervain; but yet it wounded him to think that he would never be but a shy guest at the feast of the world's culture and that the monkish learning, in terms of which he was striving to forge out an esthetic philosophy, was held no higher by the age he lived in than the subtle and curious jargons of heraldry and falconry.†  (source) James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 1917

Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; Sometimes all little birds that are, How they seemed to fill the sea and air With their sweet jargoning!†  (source) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1897

The term operations was jargon, but it meant field work.  (source) Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire, 2009

And the little cries, the pursuits through the grass, the waists embraced on the fly, those jargons which are melodies, those adorations which burst forth in the manner of pronouncing a syllable, those cherries torn from one mouth by another,—all this blazes forth and takes its place among the celestial glories.†  (source) Victor Hugo, Les Miserables, 1862

People exhibiting this purest form of the disorder would become known, in the jargon of psychiatry, as "Cleckley" psychopaths.  (source) Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City, 2003

Here, Dr. Niehoff ventured off script when he lapsed into a bit of technical jargon, as happened so often when experts couldn't resist the temptation to impress their listeners.  (source) John Grisham, Sycamore Row, 2014

Each contained a message of only one or two lines, in the abbreviated jargon — not actually Newspeak, but consisting largely of Newspeak words — which was used in the Ministry for internal purposes.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

But the deus ex machina, sometimes known in the technical jargon as 'the old parachute-under-the-airplane-seat trick', finally went out of vogue around the year 1700.†  (source) Stephen King, Misery, 1987

The cozy jargon of Cecilia's Cambridge—the Halls, the Maids' Dancing, the Little-Go, and all the self-adoring slumming, the knickers drying before the electric fire and two to a hairbrush—made Emily Tallis a little cross, though not remotely jealous.†  (source) Ian McEwan, Atonement, 2001

Jargon, not argument, is your best ally in keeping him from the Church.  (source) C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, 1942

But, as I said before, it is jargon, not reason, you must rely on.  (source) C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, 1942