How to Use argot in a Sentence

argot

noun
  • His advice was simple, wrapped in the self-improvement argot of our times.
    — Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The term is an example of a curious upstairs-downstairs argot in what is at its core a working-class sport.
    — Michael Powell, New York Times, 25 July 2019
  • Something of a dandy, Toby runs a rough assortment of helpers—babysitters and pavement artists, in the argot of the trade.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • This is a poem rendered in rough and rowdy seaman’s argot, about a petty officer dying in his hammock.
    — Colin Fleming, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
  • These are the argot of the trade for just about any statesman or practitioner of diplomacy, politics, and business.
    — Foreign Affairs, 19 Aug. 2022
  • One hundred percent green, in Kirby’s argot, means carbon neutrality with a twist.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Every generation develops a new argot to separate itself from the one before.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2022
  • In the argot of the credit bureaus, tradelines are just another word for all the accounts listed on a credit report — credit cards, loans and mortgages are all tradelines.
    — Mya Frazier, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • Instead of a clubhouse on the beach, there’s a virtual global juvenile hall, where kids gather, invent an argot, adopt alter egos, and shoot one another down.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
  • The world of mainstream Democratic politics gives voice to these sentiments in a more familiar argot, one aimed at voters rather than activists.
    — New York Times, 8 June 2022
  • While these long motion-capture sequences crackle with thrilling technical argot and are pretty interesting in themselves, the real plot lies elsewhere.
    — Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2021
  • Her speech—casual, chatty—is inflected with the argot of the Washington policy circuit.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2022
  • The problem with that, of course, is that unpredictability — what is rather grandly known in the sport’s argot as competitive balance — is at least part of the secret of soccer’s appeal.
    — New York Times, 18 Apr. 2021
  • In the United States, basic mental-health care remains a luxury item; there’s a reason that the most fluent speakers of the trending argot tend to be wealthy and white.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Characters speak in modern slang, Shakespearean verse, ’80s pop lyrics and that timeless argot of clumsy melodrama.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Cobbs’s career encapsulates the shift of sensitivity training from its literary roots to corporate argot.
    — Beth Blum, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Even the distinctive accent and argot of East Los Angeles has roots there, according to ethnolinguists.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
  • And then there’s his inborn ear for every shade of human babble, here a transcendent four-hander, there a screwball travelogue, everywhere argot and idiolect and argument.
    — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Among the war’s contributions to the American argot was that of the teetotaling secretary of the Navy, Josephus Daniels.
    — Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
  • Leaders of the Democratic Party, eagerly chasing these semantic developments, have taken up the new argot, too.
    — Philip Kennicott, The Denver Post, 24 May 2017
  • That means the companies must translate the demanding argot of genetics — alleles and phenotypes and centromeres — into something approachable, even simple, for physicians and laypersons alike.
    — Thomas Goetz, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2007
  • Still, the statement did at least mark a telltale pivot away from the site’s native argot of technological utopianism, which continually worked to present itself as a neutral platform that more-or-less spontaneously brought the world together.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 7 Oct. 2017
  • Melding the argots of Silicon Valley and self-care, Joyous delivers treatment primarily by text message, replete with exclamation points and emojis.
    — Chris Hamby, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2023

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