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Examples of four-letter in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
More and more of our fellow citizens are allowing four-letter words to become part of their vocabulary.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2024
Reading lips is not dependable, as Oscar followers discovered earlier year when lip readers erroneously insisted that best actress winner Emma Stone referred to show host Jimmy Kimmel by a four-letter word.
—Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 1 May 2024
Brandon Huntley-Hatfield unleashed his frustration on a basketball, spiking it off the court to himself during a stoppage of play and shouting one of the four-letter words that were flying around the Louisville bench Saturday while the Cardinals floundered against Virginia.
—The Courier-Journal, 27 Jan. 2024
Signature stalwart Erin Weaver, cast as a male soldier named King who becomes Jones’s spotter, deserves another Helen Hayes Award for her innumerable phonetic variations on a particular four-letter word.
—Chris Klimek, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
What also may be determined, after all these years, is whether DROP is still a four-letter word in San Diego.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Nov. 2023
Attaching a 702 amendment to any stopgap spending bill at this hour, however, could serve as a poison pill, eliciting stiff opposition from House Republicans—such as the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan—for whom FISA remains a four-letter word.
—WIRED, 14 Nov. 2023
For example, even though The Good Fight was a spinoff of CBS’s The Good Wife, its creators wanted to make a program whose content wasn’t compatible with broadcast standards (think regular usage of four-letter words) and that aimed higher than the typical Eye procedural drama.
—Vulture, 19 Oct. 2023
The answer to this week’s crossword contest is a four-letter part of the body.
—WSJ, 5 Oct. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1897, in the meaning defined above
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“Four-letter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/four-letter. Accessed 5 Jun. 2024.
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