Idiom is an English word with synonyms like expression or fashion. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Idiom meaning
- A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people.
- A programming construct or phraseology that is characteristic of the language.
Synonyms of Idiom
Using Idiom
- The main meaning on this page is: A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people. | A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people. | A programming construct or phraseology that is characteristic of the language.
- Useful related words include: expression, phrasal idiom, idiomatic expression, fashion.
- In the example corpus, idiom often appears in combinations such as: the idiom, idiom in, idiom of.
Context around Idiom
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 9 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Idiom
- In this selection, "idiom" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, old, preferred, original, trees, rules and suits stand out and add context to how "idiom" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include of the idiom and an untenable idiom of the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "idiom" sits close to words such as accumulates, admiralty and adventurers, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with idiom
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
English idiom: what goes up must come down. (8 words)
The show also speaks in a true Gen Z idiom. (10 words)
He ended by redeploying his unusual idiom in thanking Ritter. (10 words)
The fixed words of this idiom (in bold) do not form a constituent in any theory's analysis of syntactic structure because the object of the preposition (here this situation) is not part of the idiom (but rather it is an argument of the idiom). (45 words)
The dependency grammar trees of a few sentences containing non-constituent idioms illustrate the point: :: Idiom trees 1' The fixed words of the idiom (in orange) in each case are linked together by dependencies; they form a catena. (38 words)
If there were any doubts after his decades in the industry, proves Oswalt's is one of the greats and demonstrates that old idiom of storytelling -- the more personal you make it, the more universal it gets. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
The fixed words of this idiom (in bold) do not form a constituent in any theory's analysis of syntactic structure because the object of the preposition (here this situation) is not part of the idiom (but rather it is an argument of the idiom).
The dependency grammar trees of a few sentences containing non-constituent idioms illustrate the point: :: Idiom trees 1' The fixed words of the idiom (in orange) in each case are linked together by dependencies; they form a catena.
The material that is outside of the idiom (in normal black script) is not part of the idiom.
If there were any doubts after his decades in the industry, proves Oswalt's is one of the greats and demonstrates that old idiom of storytelling -- the more personal you make it, the more universal it gets.
It used to be our preferred idiom, so to speak, when we set up in the public space, the mother tongue of our creative emotions.
This means that players will have to hear Elves largely speak the language in which they are playing the game rather than their original idiom.
Clearly, the culturally-layered tempted widely diverse performance companies to transmogrify its idiom, and this Yinglish version showed staying power in overlaying familiar songs from a G&S favorite.
For what it's worth, I would accept this new idiom.
The idiom “rules for thee, but not for me” sums it up succinctly.
The show also speaks in a true Gen Z idiom.
We can hope that our democracy too will express the idiom of that diversity, that beauty, that refusal to be just one that is sanatan dharma.
With this idiom in mind, the Boulder County Film Commission and the Boulder Area Chamber of Commerce have decided to team up for what feels like a local version of Steven Spielberg joining forces with George Lucas.
He ended by redeploying his unusual idiom in thanking Ritter.
Instead — and hinting toward Langston’s future — the group altered its approach radically, releasing Attack of the Mountain Medley, an EP in the folk idiom.
This idiom suits the slot users looking to try it for the long run.
Two key words in it, namely, toe and line, have been wrongly replaced, thereby inventing an untenable idiom of the writer’s fancy.
Actively seeking to engage new music and voices into the modern classical idiom, member-composers regularly contribute compositions and arrangements to the ensemble’s expanding repertoire.
But Springsteen strives to meet his chosen idiom more than halfway.
English idiom: what goes up must come down.
He won with British Idiom in the Juvenile Fillies on Friday.
Common combinations with idiom
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the idiom 17×
- idiom in 7×
- idiom of 7×
- an idiom 7×
- idiom and 6×
- idiom that 6×
- idiom for 6×
- musical idiom 6×
- this idiom 5×
- idiom to 3×