Place This Word In A Sentence

[Adam]

I provide a word

You place it in a sentence (or a short poem - optional)

Then you suggest a word and so on...

(The 'sentence' may be witty, serious, a quote, a cliché...etc) :)

So here goes, a nice word to kick off with

Chocolate

[Altocumulus]

I love chocolate!

organic

[LaFeeVerte]

Don't panic, it's organic!

MANIC

[YoungLady]

This is manic! (could NOT think of anything:P)

Angel

[Adam]

My daughters are my angels :)

Devil

[YoungLady]

The devil wears prada

Tangible

[Altocumulus]

When I dragged my hands through the waving heads of grass, I discovered they had a tangible roughness to them; the grass heads, that is ....

pulse

[orlahmuse]

My heart skipped so many beats and I was so alarmed, I had to check for a pulse!
...................
*desire*

[YoungLady]

I had a desire, so strong, for chocolate. Mmmmm.


Silk

[Altocumulus]

I love the feel of silk on my fingers as I hug my precious lady ...


wine

[YoungLady]

Wine is something I've never tried.

Champagne

[Altocumulus]

Champagne is wasted by F1 Grand Prix winners on the podium.


talc

[YoungLady]

Hahaha!

That's hard:/

Umm, there's talc in talcum powder?:P

Sharp

[Altocumulus]

YoungLady is very sharp this afternoon with her sentences.

blunt

[Adam]

To be blunt, I can't think of a sentence!

beauty

[pandia]

Yet I remain impassive and unshaken,
For beauty lies not in these mundane sights
But in the shape of he who has forsaken
The one who loves, but loves outside her rights.


Sullen

[Altocumulus]

It was a sullen crowd that gathered, before they went berserk.....



cacophony

[Adam]

A cacophony of love
is more melodious than
a symphony of hate

incarnation

[YoungLady]

He was an incarnation of a god, for his beauty was ethereal, otherworldly.

[YoungLady]

Repercussion

[Adam]

he heard guilt's drum percussion
for sin has its repercussion

masquerade

[YoungLady]

"Your love was just a masquerade, I wanna get to know you, the girl behind the mask."

From the song Masquerade by Eric Saade (listen to it!)

Is it really weird that I love the word masquerade?

Eclipse

[Adam]

Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark.
Nothing I can say, a Total Eclipse of the Heart
(Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler)

effervescent

[YoungLady]

Omg! That's freaky. I swear to god I was gonna say that word last time but I used eclipse instead! Weird or what?

The coke was effervescent when I poured it into the glass.

Station

[Adam]

i thought we were heading for the same destination
until you left me at the first station

macabre

[YoungLady]

I didn't even know what that means, so I dictionary-ed it, and it said "shockingly repellant". I'm sorry to say I have no clue as to how to put that in a sentence.

Melancholy.

[John Ashleigh]

The sound of Melancholy was enchanting.

Peace.

[Adam]

i wish i could piece
together peace on earth like
a vibrant collage

kaleidoscope

[YoungLady]

The earth was a vibrant kaleidoscope of colours.

Inspiration.

[Adam]

if you check out my
new game thread 'rhyme prime time'
you may get the inspiration to reply to it ;)

advertisement

[YoungLady]

I saw an advertisement on the TV:P

Setting

[Adam]

Venice offered the perfect setting for 'The Tourist' film.

upgrade

[YoungLady]

The man wanted to upgrade his brick to a newer phone model

Flabbergasted

[Altocumulus]

He was then flabbergasted at the price the firm wanted for the upgrade.

serendipity

[Adam]

i don't want love out of pity
but don't mind love's serendipity

fastidious

[Altocumulus]

the sergeant major was a fastidious man, all boots should shine brighter than the sun.

fishwife

[Adam]

the fishwife who came from Fife
married a cockney who called her 'trouble and strife'
she was heavily pregnant but couldn't find a midwife
and hence she cursed and swore at life

balcony

[Ike]

I stood on a moonlit balcony holding your hand for the first time.

Luminosity

[Adam]

Her face shone with the luminosity of her kindness

mediocrity

[John Ashleigh]

Hopefully I'll climb from the mediocrity of my life.

Peace.

[Darknoir]

Peace sells, but who's buying?

Lollipop

[Adam]

(First recorded in 1956 by Barbie Gaye, and sang since by many vocalists like Lulu in 1986 and the Spice Girls)

My boy Lollipop
You make my heart go giddy-up
You are as sweet as candy
you're my sugar dandy

Oh, oh
My boy Lollipop
Never, ever leave me.
Because it would grieve me.
My heart told me so!

I love you, I love you, I love you so
But I don't want you to know
I need you, I need you, I need you so
And I'll never let you go

My boy Lollipop
You make my heart go giddy-up
You set the world on fire
You are my one desire
Oh, my Lollipop


reminiscent

[YoungLady]

The event was reminiscent of a similar one they had attended. (can't think:P)

Renaissance (another of my favourite words)

[Adam]

'I dance in Renaissance Italy
Do things that might not ever be'
(from Daydreams by YoungLady)

emancipation

[YoungLady]

Emancipation is so liberating.

Conservative

[Darknoir]

The Conservative Party are nothing but a lying stealing bunch of C*nts

Umm... Green. :p

[YoungLady]

Let's go green! Lol;)

Silver

[John Ashleigh]

Beyond the silver lining lay a blue sky.

Helotry.

[Adam]

Helotry disgraces humanity.

Pendulum

[Altocumulus]

There swings the pendulum, east then west with a tilt to the warmer south.

caricature

[Adam]

were are but a badly-drawn caricature of mother nature

simile(s)

[Altocumulus]

A simile compares seemingly different things in interesting ways, such as "love is like a merry-go-round."

blast!

[Henry P]

damn and blast!
jazz

[Altocumulus]

The lady sang, "And all that jazz ..... "

incompetent

[Henry P]

The Metropolitan Police are incompetent
rap?

[Altocumulus]

but those they caught faced the rap !


difficulty

[Adam]

we seem to have no difficulty contributing to this thread :)

mesmerised/mesmerized

[Poets Muse]

My breath caught in my throat, looking at this starlit beauty I was instantly mesmerized.


Victorian

[Shanalorm]

The Victorian house wouldn't be sold

Mitochondria

[Adam]

The mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

hypochondria

[Poets Muse]

The person, given the word hypochondria, struggled to place it in a sentence.

[Adam]

You say you suffer from hypochondria; is it contagious?

Autumn

[Poets Muse]

Autumn had come and the world looked like some one had gone sepia on it.

[Adam]

(no word suggested so I shall use 'sepia' from above)

Sepia is a brown pigment secreted by cuttlefish and used in drawing.

Violet

[Barley]

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, my hair colour is currently a violet/ grey!

My word = cyclopean (Here's to HP Lovecraft!)

[Adam]

The cyclopean hidden second eye is a source of intuition!

Razzmatazz

[Darknoir]

All that Razzamatazz, yet the showgirl was utterly alone when she hung herself.

Slug.

[Adam]

"Judging by trail it left,"
the detective said to his apprentice,
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"I reckon this slug was drunk."

Whiskey

[Shanalorm]

Take another glass o' Whiskey!

abhorrence

[Barley]

His abhorrence of delicate flowers was only surpassed by his seething hatred of bright summer days, and candy floss.

grandiose

[Shanalorm]

This grandiose battle has been won and lost by both sides.

endoplasmic

[Adam]

Your love swirls inside every cell of mine - it's endoplasmic!

Stupendous

[Shanalorm]

It is quite stupendous that the treasure had been in your shoe all the time

Shoe

[Adam]

If it hadn't been for Cinderella losing her shoe, the prince might never have found her!

Antidisestablishmentarianism

[Darknoir]

Antidisestablishmentarianism is a rather silly word, to be sure.

Flummoxed.

[Barley]

Sometimes I get flummoxed when I try to place a certain word in a sentence.

fantastical

[Adam]

TPF is full of fantastical poems.

floccinaucinihilipilification
(the longest word in the Oxford Dictionary and simply means "nothing"!)

[Poets Muse]

He wished he had floccinaucinihilipilification but all he had was less than floccinaucinihilipilification.

[Adam]

LOL

Now that I no longer have you, all what I have is floccinaucinihilipilification!

Crimson

[John Ashleigh]

As he leaks crimson his body is no longer warm.

Antidisestablishmentarism.

[Adam]

The anarchists were confronted by die-hard supporters of antidisestablishmentarism.

Ebullience

[Barley]

His buoyant ebullience was wildly infectious.

Euclidean

[Poets Muse]

The word 'Euclidean' had not been known until someone made it up...

[Adam]

The Euclidean way of proving suppositions is logical.

Felicitation.

[Barley]

Warm felicitations were offered to the boy by his rambunctious friends, when they perceived the vast array of apples he had pilfered from the neighbours' orchard. :D

(Guess how many times I had to use spell check for that!)

Obsequious

[Adam]

Can the moon but shine obsequiously for lovers?

Halloween

[Poets Muse]

Halloween drew close and misguided people dressed in cheap outfits and readied themselves for free candy.

Headless Horseman

[Adam]

The 'headless horseman' has been a motif of European folklore since at least the Middle ages.

Victimisation

[Erivandi]

When the barman refused to serve me because my karaoke performance was so bad, I felt as if I was a subject of some victimisation.

actinopterygii

[Adam]

Lionfish belongs to actinopterygii
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/actinopterygii/lionfish.gif

fascinating

[Barley]

Travelling back in time to observe the dawn awakenings of our universe, would indeed be fascinating.

arabesque

[Adam]

In the Manchester district of Rushholme, aka the Curry Mile, you see people sitting in open-style arabesque cafes, smoking shishas.

equilibrium

[Catt]

The marathon runner needed to be wrapped in a foil blanket to help restore his equilibrium.

Omniscient

[Adam]

He is so conceited; he thinks e is omniscient and invincible.

procrastination

[John Ashleigh]

Try and avoid procrastination and be fully prepared.

Plebiscite.

[Adam]

Many Scottish voters look forward for an independence plebiscite.

poppies

[Poets Muse]

The poppies where cut to shreds by my unforgiving sheers! Ha! Take that!

Lipstick

[Adam]

He got away with being unfaithful to his trusty wife for so long until one day she spotted lipstick stain on the collar of his shirt.

mascara

[Poets Muse]

Her mascra ran down her face with her tears when she found lipstick stains on her husbands collar

concealer

[Adam]

The concealer that nanny McPhee used was
so effective that she won a beauty contest.

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insignia

[Poets Muse]

His insignia was what he lived and died for.

Insomnia

[Adam]

She cured her insomnia with a hot bath.

shenanigans

[Old8oy]

After 5 years, he'd finally had enough of their shenanigans.

articulate

[Adam]

you needn't be articulate to articulate love!

contemplation

[saeity]

Contemplation of your innermost thoughts.
sequestrate

[Adam]

you sequestrated his physical freedom but could not sequestrate his spirit

cavalier

[XxFake_Rebel77]

He was cavalier in his approach towards the good lady.
Erroneous.

[Adam]

He was so erroneous in thinking he was perfect.

Pampus

[saeity]

The pampas plains were there for all to see.
paleolithic

[Adam]

His dress sense was sooo old-fashioned, she thought, it was paleolithic.

magnanimous

[Shanalorm]

It was quite magnanimous to run into the burning house to save a kitten.

Ooze

[Adam]

She oozed sensuality and he craved a barrel full of it.

perpetually

[Ike]

It is perpetually laid by the wayside

constabulary

[Adam]

The constabulary was very keen to find the murderer.

Felicity

[saeity]

Felicity was her name, felicity was her nature.
circumspect

[Adam]

In his new nature series, David Attenborough shows us how one penguin steels stones from his neighbour's nest while keeping circumspect about it.

maximisation

[saeity]

The maximisation of ones breasts is limited to the amount of skin tissue involved.
Epicurean

[Adam]

They were so different, he a spartan - she an epicurean; yet love enabled them to meet in the middle and to live happily together ever after :)

propagation

[saeity]

The propagation of lies led for her to live in isolation.
tractable.

[Adam]

The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland has made the finding of the elusive "Higgs Boson", aka the "God particle", tractable.

inconceivable

[saeity]

It was inconcievable that they thought of the same idea!
annoyingly

[Adam]

She insisted that she was always right and, annoyingly, she was.

Penalty

[saeity]

It was a penalty for being so committed arrgghh
surpress

[Adam]

She found him to be a challenge; having been hurt so many times, he learnt to suppress his feeling.

rumination

[saeity]

Renumination was her becoming, as she knew it was his
subconscious

[Adam]

His subconscious was buried so deep, even Freud himself wouldn't have been able to bring it to the surface.

masquerade

[saeity]

Her alter ego allowed the masquerade between friends.
salutary

[Adam]

Understanding the intricacies of human psyche is a salutary venture.

meandering

[saeity]

Meandering thoughts of which give great pleasure.
curvaceous.

[Adam]

Some men prefer skinny girls while others go for a fuller, curvaceous figure.

fortification

[saeity]

The fortification of my castle, rests at optimum levels.
sesquipedalian.

[Adam]

On the sesquicentennial anniversary of the death of their founder, each member of the sesquipedalian society gave a speech containing all the sesquipedalian words they knew; the ceremony took years to complete.

id

[saeity]

Sometimes, a persons id can say much more about them than they ever intended you to know, especially in poetry.
veracity

[Adam]

She as a capacity for veracity and tenacity against mendacity.

sage

[Scenicmind]

The sage has a spiritual philosophy of mystic beliefs.

record

[Shanalorm]

I replayed the record untill it was no more.

[Adam]

It's funny how many things that was said 'off the record' end up on the front page of every newspaper.

retreat

[saeity]

One would retreat amongst the barrage of name calling.

concieted

[Adam]

'I'm not conceited,' he insisted, 'I was merely stating the fact that I was perfect'.
'I rest my case!' she retorted with a sigh.

insomnia

[Scenicmind]

My insomnia is the reflection of painful regrets.

marring

[Adam]

Their casting doubts will not be marring our crystal clear sea of love

resignation

[Scattykat]

resignation is the enemy of improvement

trivia

[Adam]

I know some trivia
like 8th in Latin is octivia
and La Paz is the capital of Bolivia

cherish

[saeity]

They always cherish the moments they have together.

tacit

[Adam]

The committee gave its tacit approval to the proposed fast railway track in spite of a huge opposition

tactic

[saeity]

The tactic used allowed the men to guage much insight regarding the front line.

pulchritudinous

[Adam]

The word 'pulchritudinous' always makes me think of you!

renaissance

[saeity]

The renaissance was rather the last stage of the middle ages, emerging from ecclesiastical and feudal despotism, developing what was original in medi[ae]val ideas by the light of classic arts and letters said Mr JA Symonds. Whom am i to argue?:)

utilitarianism

[Adam]

Utilitarianism, aiming to achieve the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people, is what most poets seem to inadvertently offer.

sacrifice

[Thalassinus]

i sacrifice my heart and mind,
yet modern poetry it seems has won,
to be deaf, and to be blind,
preferable, now there's no fun.

(hehe)


word - succinct

[Adam]

your poem is clever and succinct
old poets don't die or go extinct

barometer

[Ste]

"There's gona be a storm" said the old, one legged man, tapping the barometer with the stem of his pipe."

chainsaw

[Adam]

For some reason, chainsaws remind
me of a certain rap singer

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orchestra

[Darknoir]

The orchestra played an infernal dirge that seemed to have been composed by the Devil himself.

Chicken.

[Adam]

hi reg long time no read :)

why did the chicken cross the road??!!

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRkwu47hS8XfPNSQd0N1jqdgah7BqS7t 0IrSJJqKJ_An_iGcs7r

mesmerising

[Old8oy]

The figure, as captured in the tiny peep-hole, was truly memsmerizing.

Facetious

[Adam]

ironically a certain stand up comedian isn't at all facetious in normal life

factitious

[saeity]

The smile she often displayed was purely factitious, inside she was dying.

facilitate.

[Adam]

her patting eyelid facilitated the seemingly arduous task of him walking all the way across the hall to ask her for a dance

secrecy

[Old8oy]

Though their meetings were concealed with utmost secrecy, their gazes told the entire tale...


motivate

[Adam]

the fear of a public backlash motivated a top banker to turn down his bonus

cultivate

[Old8oy]

A receding hairline prompted him to cultivate what little hair remained.

Mortified

[Adam]

when they draw her attention to the consequences of her childish behavior, she was mortified

odd

[saeity]

Although, she personally appologised to the editor, she finds it 'odd' he used the same headline latter that day.

undulate

[Old8oy]

cheeky... but I'm not going to bite :P

The breeze rode along the undulating waves and to her face as she smiled at the thought of who else it might touch...

curmudgeonly

[Adam]

Old8oy my friend this is the best word i have come across :grin:

people who live curmudgeonly never find fulfillment in life

paranoia

[saeity]

They were all suffering from grand delusional paranoia, too many magic mushrooms i think.

ubiquitous.

[Ste]

Originally of the belief that those mushrooms were rare, he found them to be actually rather ubiquitous where there was horseshit.

parallelogram

[Richard]

When the square and the parallelogram met, they both mistook each-other for a line.

[Adam]

the cube said to the parallelogram 'you're so shallow'

majestically

[Richard]

The parallelogram bowed majestically but no one saw.

Misogyny

[Adam]

Misogyny is BAD.

fluctuation

[Richard]

The measure of creativity in this thread shows great fluctuation.

[Adam]

no word suggested so i'll choose a previous one 'parallelogram' again:

the circle said to the parallelogram
"I'm throwing a party so be there or be square!"

pedantic

[Richard]

Process managers often show pedantic behaviour in situations when quick action is required and formal rules and procedures can't be followed.

Derivative

[Adam]

happiness is the derivative of love

mastication

[Richard]

Proper mastication is essential to a heathy bowel movement.

Simulacra

[Adam]

i like poems that are full of simulacra

orienteering

[Altocumulus]

Navigating from point to point requires the use of map, compass and no GPS, the artistry of the orienteering man and woman....

jubjub

[Richard]

Please leave all jubjub spawn in World of Warcraft alone.

Deterioration

[Adam]

the deterioration of his soul preceded that of his body

culmination

[Altocumulus]

All his hard work culminated in the accolade he was awarded.

temperamental

[Richard]

She was a temperamental girl, especially when she was pissed off.

Equilibrium

[Adam]

his neediness was in equilibrium with her giving nature

fastidious

[saeity]

He thought of her as being fastidious, indeed she was ha ha

complaisant lol

[Adam]

His body was enthusiastic but his heart was complaisant

viscosity

[Richard]

The viscosity of crude oil is significantly higher than that of petrol.

reflectology

[Adam]

the foot fetish enjoyed practicing his chosen profession of reflexology

infinitesimal

[Richard]

The neurological difference between love and hate is infinitesimal.

Neurophysiology

[Adam]

Neurophysiology is one of my hobbies :)

quantitive

[saeity]

quantitive is an impossible word to try and place into a decent sentence. :)

insurmountable.

[Adam]

True love is an insurmountable force for good.

Lilac

[saeity]

lilac is one of my favourite colours :)

fortitude.

[Adam]

lady godiva's fortitude helped her ride in the nude

intertwined

[saeity]

Poetry is often intertwined with a good use of metaphor, alliteration, similie...

utopia.

[Adam]

it is doubtful whether any society has ever achieved utopia for any length of time

serenity

[Richard]

True serenity can only be found by not caring about anything or anyone including yourself.

Disposition

[Adam]

Her wry smiles could not mask her melancholic Disposition.

interchange

[faight]

This interchange may improve my integrity




Intern

[Adam]

Monica Lewinsky became the most famous intern in 1998.

Effervescent