How to Use jargon in a Sentence

jargon

noun
  • So read all the way to the bottom and don't get confused by the jargon.
    Dennis Wagner, azcentral, 24 June 2019
  • In retail jargon, as prices go up, sales go down, and jobs get lost.
    Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • Not to go all science jargon here, but way, way, waaaaaaaaay safer.
    Courtney Shea, refinery29.com, 14 May 2021
  • The deal is written in legalese and trade jargon that will be pored over by trade experts and lawyers.
    William Mauldin, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The best way to dive in is with the glossary, which explains the jargon and acronyms that feature in the interviews.
    Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 17 May 2021
  • For my money, the best part of professional wrestling is the jargon.
    Joshua David Stein, Town & Country, 6 Nov. 2019
  • That's legal jargon to mean that Naruto doesn't own the photos.
    David Kravets, Ars Technica, 15 July 2017
  • Here's a handy explainer of the tax jargon you'll be exposed to as the proposal evolves.
    Luke Kawa, Bloomberg.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • And my heart was not yet indifferent to the shabby jargon of hope.
    Lynn Freed, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
  • That’s a lot of football jargon to say Flacco saw exactly what the fans did.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 19 Sep. 2022
  • In the vast and jargon-filled world of running shoes, Broe says a few factors can usually lead you toward the best pairs.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 June 2022
  • But what does any of that bridge jargon mean to anyone who isn't a civil engineer?
    Erik Sofge, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2013
  • The jargon — stablecoin, peer-to-peer, private key — flowed.
    New York Times, 5 June 2021
  • Search for keywords Who has the time to wade through page after page of dense legal jargon to spot the worrisome bits?
    Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The last version, released in May 2019, was radical and jargon-laced.
    Williamson M. Evers, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2020
  • That verisimilitude extended to the jargon of spying in his novels, which had the ring of truth.
    Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2020
  • The letter was filled with technical jargon and acronyms.
    Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • In those instances, there’s a lot of poetry jargon like meter and rhyme.
    Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The jargon was colorful, and the American public liked that, too.
    The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 3 Apr. 2022
  • For each item, Guenther spits out high-speed football jargon.
    Andy Benoit, SI.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Reddit also took steps to avoid some of the jargon and difficulty of NFTs.
    Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2022
  • If all of this sounded like jargon, then congrats on reading all the way to the end, despite your confusion.
    Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 21 Apr. 2018
  • What the company has said has been couched in deeply technical jargon.
    Dominic Fracassa, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2021
  • Every person in the bubble — or closed loop, in Olympics jargon — is required to have their throat swabbed each day to test for the coronavirus.
    Nathan Fenno Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022
  • From the cloudy heights, academic jargon trickles down to street level.
    Robert Garnett, WSJ, 14 July 2017
  • The writing is clear and jargon-free, even riveting in its deadpan just-the-facts narrative.
    Linda Greenhouse, The New York Review of Books, 30 May 2019
  • The crew was ready to wrap, and Paul Feig still had to reshoot a scene from earlier in the day where his character’s lines were filled with medical jargon.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2022
  • It’s this focus that creates the magic of agile, not its meetings or tools or jargon.
    Andrea Fryrear, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Like all sports, thoroughbred racing has its fair share of jargon.
    Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 3 Apr. 2018
  • But the details are buried in jargon-heavy government reports.
    Michael Hawthorne, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2017

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