How to Use lingo in a Sentence

lingo

noun
  • It can be hard to travel in a foreign country if you don't speak the lingo.
  • The book has a lot of computer lingo that I don't understand.
  • Adapt, learn the lingo and maybe even eat lunch with the band geeks.
    — Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The good thing about that is with how the plays are called and the lingo.
    — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2019
  • In plumbing lingo, these ridges are called splines or points.
    — Washington Post, 12 July 2021
  • To me these sports are fine arts, each with their own special world of gear, rules, and lingo.
    — Erin Berger, Outside Online, 19 July 2019
  • So, avoid the buzzy lingo—or at least back it up with actionable words.
    — Jeff Schmitz, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • The progressive lingo of years past is gone.
    — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Most of its members share the same legal system and talk the same lingo.
    — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • In that case, the lingo more or less matches what the Almanac says.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The doppelgänger just needs to look the part and learn some basic lingo.
    — Mike Miller, EW.com, 29 Jan. 2025
  • That man is always the head referee or, in their own lingo, the white hat.
    — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Everything from our lingo, to our style and aura is unique to the world and sets the pace.
    — Essence, 7 Feb. 2022
  • In the lingo, this imaginary place is known as the Metaverse.
    — James Heskett, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Uber, not Lyft, became the default verb in ride-sharing lingo.
    — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 19 July 2017
  • Collins spent weeks with jockeys, doing grunt work in the barn, learning the lingo, earning their trust.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Pour on the dark, smoky, secret-recipe dip (Lexington lingo for sauce).
    — Frances Bailey, Country Living, 7 July 2014
  • One of the worst things about idiocy is the lingo that accompanies it.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The event is patterned closely after bull riding, down to the lingo and scoring.
    — John MacCormack, ExpressNews.com, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Kayfabe, a dialect of pig Latin, lingo for the promise to drop at the laying on of hands.
    — Gregory Pardlo, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The lingo, like many things Gen Alpha says, comes from the internet.
    — Angela Yang, NBC news, 14 Dec. 2025
  • That’s using mortality as an endpoint, in the lingo of the field.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 10 Aug. 2020
  • And his influence has even reached everyday lingo.
    — La'tasha Givens, CBS News, 17 June 2026
  • When he was hired, the lingo sounded over-the-top and easy to dismiss as the musings of a hyperactive mind.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2020
  • As empires rise, fall and repeat, there’s little mention of the foods, fashion or lingo of the Realm.
    — Stephen Kearse, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
  • Yin speaks the language, not just Chinese, but the business and cultural lingo.
    — Denni Hu, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • McDonald's doesn't have some fancy lingo for the sizes of its meals, like Starbucks.
    — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 29 Feb. 2016
  • If all of that body-happy lingo sounds a little redundant, there’s an exclamation point at the end of it.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 4 May 2026
  • In today’s lingo, call it the Good Hood Policy.
    — John Seiler, Oc Register, 22 Dec. 2025
  • In the lingo of big AI, the dataset contains 500 billion tokens.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024

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