In reality, I had acquaintances, and I had what I called "friends" for lack of a more appropriate word.
It would be more appropriate, I resolved, to always be myself and thereby avoid a later explanation of my mistaken identity.
An infusion of cochineal, or a little annotta, would form a more appropriate colouring, and would be perfectly harmless.
To say that gold has a power to be melted is improper language; yet for want of a more appropriate word, power is often used in a passive sense.
It is not true, however, that "the want of a more appropriate word" really compels us to use the word power in a passive sense.
That word, affections, was another that Pierrette could not manage to understand; each time he said it she was terribly perplexed, and looked intently at the doctor, to see if he could not use a more appropriate one in its place.
Notwithstanding the arguments of Spinosa, and Des Cartes, and other advocates of the Material system, or, in more appropriate language, the Atheistical system!
It might be that the cutting-edge language and look of Wired, the magazine of the Netizens, is more appropriate to the subject than is the elaborate prose of this book.
While the grammar governing such sub- languages is, with some exceptions, the grammar of the language from which they are derived, the vocabulary is more appropriate to the subject matter.
But the time is right to move forward on a conventional arms control agreement to move us to more appropriate levels of military forces in Europe, a coherent defense program that insures the U.
A more auspicious time for the consideration of this subject by Congress, with a view to system in the organization of the several Departments and a more appropriate division of the public business, will not probably occur.
In the above sense the word kind or variety would be more appropriate.
Will is also used where may would be more appropriate; as, "Be that as it will.
Could, Can, Will Could is often incorrectly employed where can or will would be more appropriate.
I don't say that that black silk with the lace and those white flowers are not becoming, but I think something lighter and gayer would be more appropriate to a young girl.
I might have known you would carry out your programme exactly as you had sketched it, but I thought that the disturbed state of things over here might have induced you to defer that part of the plan until a more appropriate season.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "more appropriate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
