How to Use vocabulary in a Sentence

vocabulary

noun
  • She has learned a lot of new vocabulary.
  • Reading helped to expand her vocabulary.
  • The Internet has given us a whole new vocabulary.
  • He has a somewhat limited vocabulary.
  • Trump has more than a one-word vocabulary.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Dressy clogs may not be in your footwear vocabulary just yet, but these shoes will change your mind.
    — Aemilia Madden, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The video is from six years ago, and that word is just not in my vocabulary anymore.
    — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 29 June 2026
  • The video is from six years ago, and that word is just not in my vocabulary anymore.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 28 June 2026
  • That was just part of our vocabulary back in those early days and those shows were great.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Babbel isn’t like those free apps that flood you with random vocabulary.
    — PC Magazine, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Babbel isn’t like those free apps that flood you with random vocabulary.
    — PC Magazine, 8 July 2025
  • Maybe there will be some more trades that force Woj to flex his vocabulary a bit more.
    — Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 20 June 2019
  • What has the medium got to give, with its vocabulary?
    — Jack Thorne, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
  • The word ‘can’t’ was just never part of his vocabulary.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Snakeskin has been part of her vocabulary all year.
    — Maggie Clancy, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2025
  • There’s going to be some ups and downs – but up wasn’t even in the team vocabulary the past three years.
    — Chuck Murr, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • When confronted with such wealth, the word no is not in their vocabulary.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 21 May 2022
  • Alessandro Michele does not want speed to be part of his vocabulary.
    — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
  • And while her vocabulary keeps getting better, there’s still a ways to go.
    — Liz McNeil, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
  • But the baby does not have the vocabulary to tell you exactly what is wrong.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • This is a move on the part of the far left to slip into the moral vocabulary of this country, free this, free that.
    — Fox News, 18 July 2018
  • The phrase has become such a part of the vocabulary that for many its origins have been obscured.
    — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
  • All those hours on Duolingo had given me a huge vocabulary but left me more or less mute.
    — Imogen West-Knights, The Dial, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Part of that comes from learning how to give answers and finding the right vocabulary.
    — Time For Kids, Time, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Gen Z just showed up with a more direct vocabulary for what work does to people.
    — Mark Murphy, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • But in between the tail whips and howls of despair, dogs have a whole vocabulary for their emotions.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 2 June 2024
  • For most people, the idea of a new language is simply a new vocabulary, but that’s not the case.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Nov. 2021
  • What is there to play for’ like that’s not even in our definition, not even in our vocabulary.
    — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 5 Jan. 2022
  • That’s the only way to have our own narratives and our own vocabulary.
    — Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Its design is close to a frieze, and that’s part of his newspaper vocabulary.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Sep. 2019

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