How to Use lingo in a Sentence

lingo

noun

• It can be hard to travel in a foreign country if you don't speak the lingo.
• The book has a lot of computer lingo that I don't understand.
• As governments start requiring companies to tackle their value chain emissions—known in technical lingo as scope 3 emissions—more companies will have to take on this challenge.
  — Justin Worland, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
• The good thing about that is with how the plays are called and the lingo.
  — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2019
• Adapt, learn the lingo and maybe even eat lunch with the band geeks.
  — Seth Yudof, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2023
• The off-roaders gotta have their own style lingo, dude.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 14 Aug. 2021
• In that case, the lingo more or less matches what the Almanac says.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
• Everything from our lingo, to our style and aura is unique to the world and sets the pace.
  — Essence, 7 Feb. 2022
• To me these sports are fine arts, each with their own special world of gear, rules, and lingo.
  — Erin Berger, Outside Online, 19 July 2019
• Some of the lingo in the tale, a comic noir set mostly in the 1940s, comes directly from the books and movies of that era.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 17 May 2022
• Most of its members share the same legal system and talk the same lingo.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• In the lingo of big AI, the dataset contains 500 billion tokens.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024
• The lingo, according to the restaurant chain, first gained traction in the mid-1980s.
  — Henri Hollis, ajc, 13 Aug. 2019
• In the lingo, this imaginary place is known as the Metaverse.
  — James Heskett, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2021
• In plumbing lingo, these ridges are called splines or points.
  — Washington Post, 12 July 2021
• Kayfabe, a dialect of pig Latin, lingo for the promise to drop at the laying on of hands.
  — Gregory Pardlo, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• That man is always the head referee or, in their own lingo, the white hat.
  — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 22 Aug. 2019
• So, avoid the buzzy lingo—or at least back it up with actionable words.
  — Jeff Schmitz, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• Like so much else in the lingo of U.S. politics, the answer lies in horse racing.
  — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2020
• Editor's note: The use of 'hard' is a play on lingo, a way of saying someone looks hot, in this case.
  — Marjua Estevez, Billboard, 31 Jan. 2018
• No worries: there’s a big bubble—trail lingo for the bulge of hikers who start at about the same time in the spring and head up the trail more or less at the same pace.
  — Karen Berger, Outside Online, 28 June 2021
• When he was hired, the lingo sounded over-the-top and easy to dismiss as the musings of a hyperactive mind.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Nov. 2020
• Collins spent weeks with jockeys, doing grunt work in the barn, learning the lingo, earning their trust.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
• Hedy Lamarr was, to use the old studio lingo, a bombshell, one of the most glamorous stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
  — Susan King, latimes.com, 13 Dec. 2017
• As empires rise, fall and repeat, there’s little mention of the foods, fashion or lingo of the Realm.
  — Stephen Kearse, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
• Perhaps, to use startup lingo, food prep doesn’t scale well.
  — Joe Veix, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2017
• The stop-motion flow, the lingo, the dances, and the inherent waviness of Brooklyn drill signify the coolest city on the planet.
  — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2022
• Uber, not Lyft, became the default verb in ride-sharing lingo.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 19 July 2017
• Pour on the dark, smoky, secret-recipe dip (Lexington lingo for sauce).
  — Frances Bailey, Country Living, 7 July 2014
• Yet the political lingo proved to be the most difficult to master, as Sewell told IndieWire.
  — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024