interjectional
- a word derived from interjection.
Example Sentences
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Burges Johnson is dissatisfied with American profanity and hopes for an enrichment of all its forms: the oath denunciatory, the oath asseverative, the oath interjectional, the malediction.
From Time Magazine Archive
His talk with Bobby Dane was longer, and at intervals it became interjectional in its terseness.
From The Dominant Strain by Edwards, H. C. (Harry C.)
When they did at length break silence, it was in short interjectional remarks, as they resumed the oars.
From The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
When, however, the Englishman and the Australian speak each in his native tongue, only such words as belong to the interjectional and imitative classes will be naturally intelligible, and as it were instinctive to both.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
To pronounce the last word correctly, the central ”ë” must be run into a long-drawn, not an interjectional, sound.
From The Eagle Cliff by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
