How to Use four-letter in a Sentence

four-letter

adjective

• Where did the four-word, four-letter line come from?
  — David Weigel, semafor.com, 25 Mar. 2026
• Is that your favorite four-letter word?
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
• Here are some of our favorite four-letter baby names for girls.
  — Sherri Gordon, Clc, Parents, 9 Oct. 2024
• Mold is an ugly four-letter word that is found too often in bathrooms.
  — Megan Boettcher, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2023
• The answer to this week’s crossword contest is a four-letter part of the body.
  — WSJ, 5 Oct. 2023
• The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a four-letter word.
  — WSJ, 15 Oct. 2021
• The answer to this week’s contest crossword is a four-letter plural noun.
  — wsj.com, 12 May 2023
• For the past two decades, debt has been a four-letter word at Old Trafford in more ways than one.
  — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 13 June 2026
• Sprinkled about this sentiment are an array of four-letter words.
  — Mac Engel june 12, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 June 2026
• The intruders must crack a four-letter code to unlock their padlocks and enter the course.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 28 June 2024
• What's a four-letter action that a fighter might perform, or a three-letter wizard move?
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 11 May 2024
• And Democrats’ use of four-letter vernacular says a lot about the party.
  — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 28 Apr. 2025
• One four-letter word can mean life or death for some of Florida’s most treasured creatures.
  — Elise Bennett, The Orlando Sentinel, 15 May 2025
• Panther fans everywhere shook their heads for this game’s four-plus hours and probably threw in a few four-letter words, too.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2025
• There are plenty of four-letter words that apply to what’s happened when the Lakers have tried to put points on the board.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
• So now, on a collection of videos, over the top of Bob’s booming baritone is a series of four-letter words.
  — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 16 May 2026
• So much so that a cheeky George Clooney let loose a certain four-letter word while jesting about a fellow actor.
  — Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 10 Jan. 2026
• Why are there so many four-letter varieties of [Secluded valley]?
  — Sam Corbin, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
• In just under four minutes, smooth crooner drops the king of all four-letter words no less than 21 times during the crass breakup ballad.
  — Robbie Daw, Billboard, 14 Apr. 2023
• Shocking four-letter words emerged effortlessly through scarlet lips, in a voice deeper than my father’s.
  — Victor Lodato, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• There’s something really endearing about a short, four-letter baby name.
  — Sherri Gordon, Clc, Parents, 9 Oct. 2024
• The four-letter name is written in bold upper-case letters and covers the majority of his knuckles.
  — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
• Ford, who is thirty-six, barrel-chested, and bearded, with a propensity for four-letter words, said, laughing.
  — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
• His team down by 18 after two quarters, Popovich’s halftime speech went heavy on the four-letter epithets.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Mar. 2023
• Several four-letter c-words are used liberally.
  — Katherine Turman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
• The get down to the get down to the get down on it — from DT to JT to the four-letter hip name to come before the gang.
  — Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2024
• More and more of our fellow citizens are allowing four-letter words to become part of their vocabulary.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 7 Mar. 2024
• Florida, a solidly red state where socialism is viewed in some corners as a four-letter word, has resoundingly bucked that trend.
  — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2026
• Enforcement is a four-letter word to progressives, and a crucial part of keeping businesses in business.
  — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 23 Dec. 2025
• Prescott’s reaction—a four-letter word that rhymes with Andrew Luck—certainly seemed genuine.
  — Justin Birnbaum, Forbes, 25 Dec. 2024