How to Use informal in a Sentence

informal

adjective

• The term is common in informal contexts.
• He has an informal manner that puts people at ease.
• We had an informal meeting over lunch.
• He took an informal poll among his coworkers.
• He spoke to them in informal Spanish.
• The fellas hold a quick and informal draft of the top players in the NBA Finals.
  — Aaron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post, 5 June 2024
• Users’ feeds are flooded with these informal peeks into the worlds of their friends.
  — Elana Klein, WIRED, 28 Jan. 2024
• First with informal classes for friends, then friends-of-friends.
  — Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
• Then comes an informal beauty pageant to select the finest turkey in the land.
  — Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
• Tata is the informal word for grandma in Lebanese Arabic.
  — Kaitlin Stevens, Peoplemag, 3 Mar. 2024
• As tracks played into the night, members of the crowd got up from their picnic blankets and joined the informal dance floor.
  — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024
• Helping in times of need sets up an informal pooling of risk.
  — Jessica Dulong, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024
• Pauker serves as an informal spokesman for the survivors.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
• Kennedy said the informal makeup of the groups raises some concerns.
  — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 3 Dec. 2024
• The new companions, who still will not receive a salary, will be more informal than the ladies-in-waiting of decades past.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 28 Nov. 2022
• The informal meeting felt more like a group of friends getting together, which is a draw for some.
  — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 3 Jan. 2023
• Elsewhere, there are both formal and informal living rooms, and not just one but two kitchens.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2023
• While such events are largely informal or semi-formal, there must be a method to the madness.
  — Abiola Salami, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• Those with no money had to seek the help of informal volunteer networks.
  — USA Today, 31 May 2023
• Most of this growth occurs in the informal sector, so the question isn’t how to manage it, but how to empower it.
  — Holly Jones, Variety, 4 Sep. 2024
• There was even an informal queue of people waiting to join the official one.
  — Mike Corder, Jill Lawless and Danica Kirka, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2022
• For creative types, a more informal photo might be best.
  — Will Van Der Sanden, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• It's used as an informal measure of how bad a storm is expected to be or has been, because the chain of restaurants, many of which are in the South, are rarely closed.
  — NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024
• This is part of the new king’s desire to usher in a more visible, more informal monarchy.
  — WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
• The four of us emerged from the Woodland Garden, an informal area filled with camellias and staghorn ferns, and found ourselves on a paved terrace equipped with drink stands.
  — Helen Carefoot, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
• This spring an informal camp of asylum-seekers grew in a plaza in a trendy, touristy neighborhood of the capital.
  — Whitney Eulich, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2023
• The transition from that informal setup to a proper shop wasn’t long planned.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2024
• The aides described a chaotic six hours of back and forth, starting with Trump talking to a group of the informal advisers with no White House aides present.
  — Mary Clare Jalonick, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2022
• Service, from formal volunteering to informal small acts of kindness, is about helping each other.
  — Vivek H. Murthy, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
• Weekdays were consumed by the search for work in a post-pandemic economy saturated with informal migrant workers.
  — Jordan Salama, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 23 Jan 2025