How to Use four-letter in a Sentence

four-letter

adjective
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Huggins directed the same four-letter word at Xavier fans twice during a radio appearance in Cincinnati on Monday morning.
    Creg Stephenson | Cstephenson@al.com, 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

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