How to Use idiomatic in a Sentence

idiomatic

adjective
  • The dancing and the chorus work were first-rate; James Lowe was the idiomatic conductor.
    — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Hip-hop's fast pace, rife with slang, double meanings, idiomatic expressions and plays on words — or made-up words — can be the most challenging.
    — Chris Kenning, The Courier-Journal, 3 July 2019
  • To be sure, Alter’s choices are reasonable ones, and each does capture the sense of the original in idiomatic English.
    — Sam Bray, Washington Post, 10 July 2017
  • Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing.
    — Anh Dostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Those who speak both say Cantonese is more colorful and idiomatic than Mandarin, with more cursing.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 23 Apr. 2022
  • Crafting great light verse and song lyrics is the white-water rafting of our language: small, regular eruptions of self-conscious wit oar against a steady stream of idiomatic speech.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • With conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya firmly in control, the orchestra was much more lively and idiomatic than the staging.
    — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 29 May 2018
  • Of course, even face the idiomatic and cultural hurdles requires landing the most important: talent and endurance.
    — Casey Quackenbush, Time, 24 Oct. 2017
  • The chorus sang forcefully from the pit, and the orchestra was idiomatic under the skillful leadership of Harry Bicket.
    — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2017
  • What resonates is the multitude of idiomatic expressions rather than a single radical shock or reset to the system.
    — Amy Verner, Vogue, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Lopez-Cobos' uptight accompaniment was all about keeping in step with his soloist, but that was not nearly the same thing as breathing Gershwin's music with the same idiomatic ease or flair.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
  • Pevear and Volokhonsky take strange pains to avoid idiomatic language, giving the prose an awkward formality.
    — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
  • In truth, the Portuguese writer had stumbled into the sweet spot of many a modern poet: knowing a foreign language well enough to imitate its best writers, but not so well as to be a viable, idiomatic stylist in it.
    — Benjamin Kunkel, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Out of obscure British usage a term became idiomatic in America: stagflation.
    — Brian Domitrovic, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
  • What matters is that they be kept inside recognizably idiomatic speech.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • On cross-examination, Unsworth said his jab at Musk was just an idiomatic expression and not meant to be taken literally.
    — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Honeck paced the scherzo as moderately as Mahler specified in the score, bringing a truly idiomatic grace to those lilting evocations of Viennese landler and waltz.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Alsop’s Verdi was overcharged and not altogether idiomatic, lacking Verdian flow in the interest of trying to land points at big moments.
    — Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2019
  • His knack for keeping textures spotless, rhythms sharply etched, yielded an idiomatic rendition of Bartok’s mid-20th-century take on the baroque concerto grosso.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • With either or both Michael Sponseller and Valenzuela on harpsichord and/or organ, their realizations were idiomatic and clean.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Textual analysis came naturally to the industry’s sleuths, some of whom claimed to detect a Germanic cadence in the thief’s writing or an idiomatic French syntax.
    — Vulture, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Textual analysis came naturally to the industry’s sleuths, some of whom claimed to detect a Germanic cadence in the thief’s writing or an idiomatic French syntax.
    — Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2021
  • So did the idiomatic work of conductor Scott Speck and the Chicago Philharmonic, which elegantly handled intricate interchanges with the jazz trio.
    — Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The translations will probably come with the same occasional mishaps that Google Translate runs into—idiomatic expressions might be confounding, and some words just don’t compute.
    — Ella Riley-Adams, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Then, too, the superbly idiomatic Bartok recordings Solti made in Chicago remain a cornerstone of his discography, a loving homage to his great countryman that brought out the best in him and his magnificent orchestra.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2017

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