colloquially

How To Use colloquially In A Sentence

• Colloquially we say “four hundred and sixty-three,” for example, but the convention in math is that “and” stands for a decimal: 463 is “four hundred sixty-three”, 4.63 is “four AND sixty-three hundreths.” Pronouncing 2010 « Motivated Grammar
• The people who write parking tickets in New York are known colloquially as "brownies".
• A lean, rangy old cowboy with a lined and seamed face, he frequented a beer joint on the edge of town known colloquially as the Bloody Bucket.
• Here in Melbourne, listening to what's colloquially called, Drive Time Radio, is a singularly unedifying experience.
• Combine that with what researches term colloquially a "noisy brain," with its never-ending soundtrack of music and thoughts intertwined at a wild pace, and you can see why this has nothing to do with anybody's perception of God. Brain Blogger
• People use the term colloquially to mean that something sells for 3x its cost, but that isn’t what ‘markup’ means in business. Question of the Day: What’s Up With Restaurant Wine Prices? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
• Number Two Court may be colloquially known as the graveyard of champions but the mournful mood was only allowed to descend when football was mentioned.
• All permutations of “Natural Selection”– “survival of the fittest,” “reproductive success,” “mechanisms that contribute to the selection of individuals that reproduce,” “sexual selection,” “gametic selection,” “compatibility selection”–reduce quite readily to “successful reproducers successfully reproduce,” or colloquially, “survivors survive.” The latest from the World of Egnor - The Panda's Thumb
• You might say that, with the substantial exception of repeat buildings or structures, to make a building is to undertake a piece of research, using that word colloquially.
• Colloquially, a "fairy tale" or "fairy story" can also mean any far-fetched story or tall tale.