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How to use idiom in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word idiom? Here are some examples.

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The composer of some 70 operas, Adam is remembered as a pioneer and writer of graceful, fluent music in an Italianate idiom with dramatic power.
The language we speak is New Zealandese, with its own idiom and pronunciation.
Religion offered the only idiom through which popular support could be mobilized.
The author examines the problem of adapting the situation comedy to the post-Soviet Russian cultural idiom.
The idiom is essentially tonal though dissonance, bitonality, and, occasionally, polytonality are liberally used.
His neoclassicism comes essentially from Hindemith, and his idiom sounds a little like Walton because of it.
Taylor understands the idiom quite perfectly and he manages to bring a grandeur and nobility to the admittedly slight work.
Perhaps it's time someone collected the best catchwords, slogans and political idiom of the 2001 campaign here in Australia.
Some of the same materials that were exploited by furniture designers were also used by bookbinders in this new, streamlined idiom.
Language experts can tell from sentence construction, phrase and idiom whether or not you think in the language of your speech or writing.
The famed Kashmiri phiran, which is a legacy of the early centuries, has made a fashion comeback with a contemporary idiom.
But this one combines his growing sense of time with a subtly mutated idiom in an unutterably cute three-word package.
Johnson gave little attention to collocation, idiom, and grammatical information, although he provided a brief grammar at the front.
He creates paintings on the lines of the artistes of yore who not only adopted a conventional artistic idiom, but also used natural dyes.
At the same time his style changed, as he abandoned Cubist leanings for a more naturalistic idiom.
Composers are not standing in line to compose ballets, and, in fact, the idiom of much modern music might not be all that suitable for dance.
The linguistic logic of the dot.com bubble was expressed in a particularly Californian idiom.
We need to make that point-in a warm and affectionate way, and in their language and idiom.
But he is a politician who came to power using the idiom of fellowship and community.
She kept insisting that no one else had the gift for adapting the Bard to the modern idiom.
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Examples from Classical Literature
From this mother dialect our English differs less in respect of etymology, than of syntax, idiom, and flexion.
Is it a trifle that wre temper energy with softness, strength with flexibility, capaciousness of sound with pliancy of idiom?
Hence the Old Slavic idiom, with the pope's reluctant permission, continued to be the language of the Church service.
The victim was offered as a burnt sacrifice, which in Hebrew idiom was euphemistically described as passing through the fire.
His stories are written in the raciest Tuscan idiom and are redolent of the humor peculiar to Florence.
Is it a trifle that we temper energy with softness, strength with flexibility, capaciousness of sound with pliancy of idiom?
It is precisely because such phrases are not part of the current idiom that they give distinction to the style.
Thus at a distance of eighteen hundred years, it had borne, in another idiom, the same name it still bears.
He spoke in Chaldaic, using the idiom that a Greek would not understand.
Neither has it been possible for the writer of it to render the full force of the Zulu idiom nor to convey a picture of the teller.
The idiom and traditions of the ancient inhabitants were there preserved.
Barny thus sheltered his falsehood under the idiom of his language.
The occasional use of the imperfect is almost his only Gaelic idiom.
But, as they said in their idiom, they had eaten their white bread first.
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