Example Sentences

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Even then, it’s oddly disowned and unidiomatic: “Everyone at school is saying that I’m a gay,” Trevor tells us, doubtfully.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2021

What is fascinating about this score is the Japanese composer's unidiomatic setting of Poe's text, creating mystery through ethereally haunted sounds and strange accent of the poetic lines.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2014

Nobody in Israel would particularly care to emulate the heavily accented and often unidiomatic Hebrew spoken by Cairo Radio announcers.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the pit, Conductor Cohn Davis, leading the opera for the first time, delivered a limp, unidiomatic account of the score that reduced its most thrilling moments to polenta.

From Time Magazine Archive

I now consider this unlikely, since the personal adjective nostra with tristia seems unidiomatic; but I still believe that littera is the key to the corruption.

From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear