Pants (from pantaloons) has found some degree of colloquial and commercial acceptance.
The colloquial sentence That's the man I talked with becomes in writing That is the man with whom I talked.
Colloquial in such expressions as quite a while, quite a few, quite a number.
A mercantile term which has a dubiouscolloquial standing.
Colloquial usage is more free than literary usage.
The colloquial sentence It was a cold day but there wasn't any wind blowing is a loose string of words.
Can for may has a certain colloquial standing, but is condemned by literary usage.
Nice is used in a loose colloquial way to indicate general approval, but should not be so used in formal writing.
The interpretation given is based upon a passage of Pliny the Elder, from which we understand that in colloquial language the knights were known as 'the nine hundred.
I know not well what degree of respect Shakespeare intends to obtain for this vicar, but he has here put into his mouth a finished representation of colloquial excellence.
But see is the colloquial term for perception or experiment.
This jest depending on the colloquial use of words is now obscure; perhaps we should read, a wise gentle man, or a man wise enough to be a coward.
These accidental and colloquial senses are the disgrace of language, and the plague of commentators.
You've proved it, and I no longer wonder at your fine colloquial English.
I'll have to cut out the dirigible," he said in his colloquial tongue.
The general want of the substantive verb, in their colloquial phrases, constantly leads to imperfect forms of syntax.
Corruption of colloquial Latin in the lower empire.
It was probably a colloquial idiom; and, in the next line, we have wente.
Bayard was a colloquialname for a horse; see Piers Plowman, B.
Modern English, and especially colloquial English, has borrowed a great deal from the American way of speaking English.
Nor is there any excuse for the use of words and phrases which are vulgar or too colloquial for the subject; yet how often is this done in the modern newspaper.
I believe, however, that Persian was the colloquial language of foreigners at the Kaan's court, who would not scruple to make a Persian plural when wanted; whilst Rashid has exemplified the actual use of this one.
And it is said to have stillcolloquial existence in that sense in some corners of England.
He had evidently a goodcolloquial knowledge of Spanish, but apparently not much more.
But the Colonel's colloquial speech was apt to be fragmentary incoherencies of his larger oratorical utterances.
His friends in this part of the country never saw him more full of intellectual vigour and colloquial animation--never more delightful or more instructive--than in his last visit to Scotland in autumn 1817.
Bettina Vanderpoel, who was the richest and cleverest and most promisingly handsome among them, was colloquial to slanginess, but she had a deep, mellow, child voice and an amazing carriage.
His words were colloquial enough, but they called up the picture.
Lord Rochester was eminent for the vigour of his colloquial wit, and remarkable for many wild pranks and sallies of extravagance.
Among those friends it was that Addison displayed the elegance of his colloquial accomplishments, which may easily be supposed such as Pope represents them.
The front of the building was constructed to represent a gigantic safe door, and under the colloquial designation of "The Safe" the place had passed into a synonym for all that was secure and impregnable.
Stoker' is a mere colloquial appellation based on a trifling incident of my career in connection with a disabled liner.
As for the Lord Chief Justice Gascoigne, he no sooner heard of the old king's death than he proceeded to make what, in modern colloquial parlance, is termed "a bolt of it.
Scarcely fifty seconds had elapsed, and ere the same number of words could have passed between them, the following colloquial fragment was audible:-- Sin John Falstaff.
Both also, in their strong, easy colloquial way, tend to become difficult and obscure; the obscurity in the case of Villon passing at times into the absolute darkness of cant language.
All through this scene of colloquial and snappy dialogue, the music runs with remarkable movement.
Scarpia shuts the window in anger, and the repetition of his characteristic similar phrase leads up to a strenuous passage in which determination is skilfully depicted in contrast to the almost colloquial movement of the preceding passages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colloquial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
