(a.) Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the Washington Post reports a boom in bullet-proof backpacks for children, it is not a good time to be a resident of a place colloquially known as The Arms.
(2) The prose rhythm and colloquial diction here work against exaggeration, but allow for humour.
(3) In colloquial terms, senior ministers in the new government should have been having more cups of tea with the crossbench members in the Senate in the weeks and months after the election.
(4) This paper attempts a new departure both in German dialectology and in phonemic analysis: (i) It is based on an open corpus of spontaneous, colloquial speech.
(5) The Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire was modified for use amongst British patients by the substitution of colloquial expressions.
(6) For both thyroxine and triiodothyronine the component contribution of within-individual variation to the population-based variation (the latter also termed the 'reference interval', or colloquially the 'normal range') was small.
(7) We can end our nation’s domestic violence epidemic by properly funding crisis lines, legal centres, emergency accommodation, affordable long-term accommodation and prevention.” Thousands of Australians still turned away from homeless services Read more Labor introduced a private members’ bill earlier in the year to criminalise the sharing of private sexual imagery without the consent of the subject, a practice colloquially known as revenge porn.
(8) Emad Hajjaj, a popular Jordanian cartoonist, drew an elderly Palestinian woman by her sagging UN tent saying – in an untranslatable pun on the words “Charlie” and the colloquial Arabic “I have been” – that she had lived as a refugee for the 67 years since the creation of Israel in 1948.
(9) The media as a whole should be united in defending freedom of expression.” NewstrAid, known colloquially as “Old Ben”, was set up in 1839 to support newspaper vendors in London.
(10) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem that succeeds through a series of vivid contrasts: standard English contrasting with colloquial speech; the devotion and virtue of the young knight contrasting with the growling threats of his green foe; exchanges of courtly love contrasting with none-too-subtle sexual innuendo; exquisite robes and priceless crowns contrasting with spurting blood and the steaming organs of butchered animals; polite, indoor society contrasting with the untamed, unpredictable outdoors.
(11) Whereas in 37 of 51 patients a normal or almost normal colloquial speech could be demonstrated, 30 of 39 patients with cleft lip and palate showed a normal or almost normal realization of the test sentences.
(12) Comey made self-deprecating jokes and slipped into colloquialisms.
(13) He was studiedly colloquial – "You won't believe this, Jacqueline" – and cast himself as the rebel.
(14) Being friends with Irish people is almost a nostalgic thing – we can speak some Irish language, reminisce about Irish colloquialisms and talk about sports.
(15) Similar changes were also observed on acupuncture points CV17 (Shan Zhong), CV 22 (Tian Tu), Yin Tang (at an area just between the eyebrows: the pituitary gland representation area, colloquially known as the "third eye") and GV20(Bai Hui), the entire pericardium meridian & triple burner meridian, their acupuncture points, the adrenal glands, testes, ovaries and perineum, as well as along the entire spinal vertebrae, particularly on and above the 12th thoracic vertebra, medulla oblongata, pons, and the intestinal representation areas of the brain located just above and behind the upper ear.
(16) In his commentary, Robinson writes that Chaplin "can move without warning from the baldly colloquial to dazzling yet apparently effortless imagery, as when the crushed Calvero gazes 'wearily into the secretive river, gliding phantom-like in a life of its own … smiling satanically at him as it flecked myriad lights from the moon and from the lamps along the embankment'".
(17) When a physician performs unprofessional activity breaking the rules of his profession, which is colloquially interpreted as charlatanism, the term "malpractice" is used.
(18) He volunteered initially but within months had secured a permanent position in the West Wing, latterly as the President's aide – a role dubbed the "body man", or more colloquially "butt boy" in the US.
(19) The voice that Plath eventually created is indeed fresh, brazen and colloquial, but also sardonic and bitter, the story of a young woman's psychological disintegration and eventual – provisional – recovery.
(20) He might have said "we agree to disagree" or used some other flaccid political colloquialism for the truth – that to Gordon, this lady's views were bizarre – but he just said it like it was.
Drawl
Definition:
(v. t.) To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
(v. i.) To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc.
(n.) A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.
Example Sentences:
(1) I think, in all honestly, if I could be Bradley Whitford I would be very, very happy.” He becomes almost drawlingly dreamy, rolling his “r”s as he leans against the warm oolite cliffs of this Jurassic Coast, until rudely interrupted by me, asking whether there’s talk of a Broadchurch 3 .
(2) As the Big Dog waltzed through a thicket of policy points, dropping drawl-inflected catchphrases, the teleprompter stuttered.
(3) "We have hit upon things here that really do matter – that haven't been given due consideration," he would bark in his distinctive, rapid-fire baritone southern drawl.
(4) Using a simple line-up of strummed guitar, bass and drums, he drawled, and then sang, his way through a story about a train driver fooling the inspector on a toll gate outside New Orleans.
(5) "It's not even lack of progress," she says in her low, ironic drawl, "it's a downward slide towards the apocalypse.
(6) Their hard, stuttering tone is a long way from Gucci's Atlanta drawl, but the juxtaposition is electric – a kind of east London crunk.
(7) Theorizing, research and speculation reached a fever pitch, and then a minor character, last seen cutting grass way back in episode three, drawled “My family’s been here a long, lo-ong, time,” and more appeared.
(8) Abramson has one of the thickest New York accents you'll ever hear, a nasal drawl in which the vowels are stretched to breaking point like an elastic band.
(9) "Of course I'd like to sit around and chat, but someone's listening in," drawls Yorke.
(10) She has played Alien: Isolation, of course ("The flame-thrower is very good," she drawls) and is intrigued by the immersive story-telling possibilities of the medium.
(11) A pin is fine but what woman doesn’t love a necklace?” she said, in a faint Texan drawl.
(12) She recalls one lunch with a literary editor of the Times who "got there and said [she puts on a patrician drawl]: 'I told all the girls in the office I'm going out with a Virago today!'
(13) One might expect, however, that after the death of his wife and his own health scare, Clifford would have a new perspective on life, but it is a suggestion he readily bats away: "Naaaah," he drawls, "not at all.
(14) I suspect that like many who owed their careers to Lord Beaverbrook, Alex had picked up a hint of the baron's stately drawl.
(15) Frost's voice never ceased to intrigue: he developed something called the Frost Drawl, a way of speaking that became slower and whose clarity diminished as it extended its global reach.
(16) "Old fogeys like me don't email, darlin'," he drawls at the cattle baron's ball, just in case we missed the point.
(17) Self-deprecating An Arkansas native, Engskov speaks with the same southern drawl as Clinton, and does a smooth line in self-deprecation that belies his intelligence: "I'm from Arkansas so it takes me a little time to catch up," he says at one point.
(18) This is all delivered in her rich, husky 60-a-day drawl, although it turns out the 60 a day has just become four a day after a week-long stay in a health farm, and "you'll have to forgive me because I only got back last night and I'm feeling quite peculiar".
(19) 'I wondered why would someone make such a radical change in their lives if they were basically a good person, a non-criminal' Gilligan, who is 45 but speaks with an avuncular southern drawl that makes him sound 20 years older, made his name working on The X Files .
(20) He even had a catchphrase of sorts, his "hello, good evening and welcome" drawled by mimics on both sides of the Atlantic.