How to Use four-letter in a Sentence

four-letter

adjective

• Public school systems can never succeed academically until discipline is no longer treated as a four-letter word.
  — Vincent Turley, Hartford Courant, 22 July 2024
• The answer to this week’s crossword contest is a four-letter part of the body.
  — WSJ, 5 Oct. 2023
• The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a four-letter word.
  — WSJ, 2 June 2023
• The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a four-letter word.
  — WSJ, 23 June 2023
• He’s always got a story, is always ready with a quip and isn’t afraid to let the four-letter words roll off the tongue in the most creative ways.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Apr. 2023
• The intruders must crack a four-letter code to unlock their padlocks and enter the course.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 28 June 2024
• The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a four-letter plural noun.
  — wsj.com, 12 May 2023
• Mold is an ugly four-letter word that is found too often in bathrooms.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2023
• In my case, market research and focus groups had narrowed the list down to a single, four-letter f-word: fine.
  — Joseph Lezza, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2023
• In just under four minutes, smooth crooner drops the king of all four-letter words no less than 21 times during the crass breakup ballad.
  — Robbie Daw, Billboard, 14 Apr. 2023
• What's a four-letter action that a fighter might perform, or a three-letter wizard move?
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 11 May 2024
• His team down by 18 after two quarters, Popovich’s halftime speech went heavy on the four-letter epithets.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Mar. 2023
• In the final instance, the frustration crescendoed with a scream — and four-letter curse word — that echoed around the intimate setting at Goodyear Ballpark, reverberating from the mound to the stands to the press box loud and clear.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2023
• More and more of our fellow citizens are allowing four-letter words to become part of their vocabulary.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2024
• Huggins directed the same four-letter word at Xavier fans twice during a radio appearance in Cincinnati on Monday morning.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 8 May 2023
• But in mainstream publications, especially the New Yorker, a magazine that for decades would not print four-letter words, his panels were notably less edgy.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
• Their every conversation sits on a thread between jocular riffing and high-decibel bickering strewn with four-letter words, though both ultimately channel the same deep and abiding affection these neurotic men hold for each other.
  — Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024