Example Sentences

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These inequities or biases in the substantive laws have over time become routine through the legal formalities and discretionary informalities of the procedural law.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2023

Field, now 97, said he and Locklin “shared certain informalities, that poetry shouldn’t be beyond human understanding and feelings.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 29, 2021

In the weeks after this meal, Momofuku Nishi was reviewed by critics who were pleased with its food and its no-tipping policy but unhappy with its brutal acoustics and other informalities.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 5, 2016

In informal speech a lot of us — even English teachers — lapse into all sorts of informalities.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2012

The Iphigenîa is full of informalities, broken metres, interruptions.

From Euripedes and His Age by Murray, Gilbert