How to Use euphemism in a Sentence

euphemism

noun
  • To say that wasn't a euphemism is crazy.
    — Mekishana Pierre, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The story is patient, which some may find a euphemism for slow.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Halperin’s use of that term struck me as the ultimate of euphemisms.
    — Sarah Ellison, The Hive, 27 Oct. 2017
  • What’s a euphemism for the drop-of-wine anesthetic at a bris?
    — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Each agency has its own language of acronyms and euphemisms that take time to learn.
    — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The gloves are off, the language is blunter, and the patience for euphemism is gone.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 6 Feb. 2026
  • But this cough drop flavor isn't a euphemism for, say, some kind of minty flavor.
    — Lilian Min, Cosmopolitan, 23 Aug. 2017
  • In this state of emergency, there’s no room for wimpy euphemisms and lofty rhetoric.
    — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 8 June 2017
  • This man gave me free Big Sticks two, three times a week, and that’s not a euphemism.
    — Elisa Albert, Longreads, 7 May 2018
  • Now there were no euphemisms for Germany’s leader.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Kelly's argument here, though, might be the best euphemism yet.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 31 Oct. 2017
  • Obama concealed his true alarm behind the mists of custom and euphemism.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2020
  • But the euphemism and officialese have appeared to worsen over the decades.
    — Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2020
  • The desperate go to the dump, which seems like a not-trying-too-hard euphemism for the landfill.
    — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The episode could have opened with Jim creepily playing with his yo-yo in the dark (not a euphemism).
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 2 July 2021
  • Opinions were filtered through euphemism.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Nov. 2025
  • There are more than 5,000 euphemisms for periods around the world.
    — Ashley Oerman, Cosmopolitan, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Harsh environments—what a nice euphemism for the sound and fury of terminals.
    — Christopher Schaberg, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2019
  • That’s a pleasant euphemism for a pay cut, which Mathieu declined to accept.
    — Kent Somers, azcentral, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Euthanasia has come to Canada dressed up in euphemisms and deceit.
    — Daniel Dorman, National Review, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Anyway, here's a video of a kid actively swallowing slime (not a euphemism, just straight slime).
    — Tess Koman, Cosmopolitan, 13 Oct. 2017
  • When health officials confirm bird flu in a flock, the birds are culled — a euphemism for killed — in order to stop the spread of the virus.
    — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The Netflix and chill euphemism was replaced with quarantine and chill.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Two-thirds of the kids entering foster care are there because of neglect, which is a euphemism for poverty.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The sorrow and anguish and death could not be hidden from the world — even as ideology tries to cloak them with euphemisms.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Each a poorer euphemism than the last for the remnants of chattel slavery, genocide, and forced labor.
    — Kim Tran, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Gaming is often used as a euphemism for gambling in the United States.
    — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The claim that euphemisms for death are somehow unique to Vietnamese culture is absurd in the extreme.
    — Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 6 May 2025
  • But the rest has been, in the British political euphemism of the moment, missteps.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2024
  • The girls – and in most cases that’s a euphemism – inhabit the taverns and station themselves along the sidewalk.
    — OregonLive.com, 8 Jan. 2018

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