90 examples of lingo in sentences
Then there are a couple of Finns who ought to be with us, but I can't talk their lingo.
That's 'bout all the lingo we've heard lately.
"I can't tell all we did for the next six months, because Dravot did a lot I couldn't see the hang of, and he learned their lingo in a way I never could.
She taught me the lingo and one or two other things; but what happened?
Your lingo is a fake!
I know ye've got a smooth lingo when ye get in a trap, but ye can't squirm out this time.
" "I can ride and shoot pretty well, but I don't know the people, I haven't worn their clothes, and I can't talk their lingo.
" "The country's mostly rocks when it ain't ground; the people is pretty generally men and women; the clothes they wear is cotton and wool, the lingo they talk is English.
The Yankee lingo is insoluble in poetry, and the accent would give a flavor of essence-pennyr'y'l to the very Beatitudes.
" "You think I've got to learn the Broadway lingo?" "I do.
I suppose a man could even make an attenuated sort of love in the lingo, but I'll be hanged if I see how anybody could order a loaf of bread," "One might do without bread, possibly?" suggested Morrison, pressing the tips of his beautiful fingers together.
"Ah, if I but knew their snip-snap, lippetty-chippetty lingo!
You're a brave lass for all your niminy-piminy lingo.
'You see, I don't speak the lingo.
And then this woman will work better for having the boy; she's kinder set on him; she jabbers lots of lingo to him, day and night.
His whiskers would have bristled with rage and he would have stormed at you for hair-splitting and "lingo," if you had answered that William was German Emperor, while Napoleon was not French Emperor, but only Emperor of the French.
It is not often that one finds a rough-rider and ex-cowboy who is able to tackle a don in his own lingo.
SEE Adams, Franklin P. ADAMS, RAMON F. Cowboy lingo.
Red Ryder's corral of Western lingo.
Red Ryder's corral of Western lingo.
Red Ryder's corral of western lingo.
in taxes for every hundred words of the lingo learned by heart, with double votes for irregular verbs.
"I can't understand their lingo, but faces talk one language; and I don't care what's the color of the skin.
'Only they can talk these people's lingo, and I can't.
Molly's account was full of interest, in spite of the grotesque lingo in which it was delivered, and which once or twice nearly sent me into convulsions of laughing, whereupon she apologized with great gravity for her mispronunciation, modestly suggesting that white words were impossible to the organs of speech of black folks.