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Example sentences for "paraphrase"

Lexicographically close words:
paranoid; parao; parapet; parapets; paraphernalia; paraphrased; paraphrases; paraphrasing; paraphrastic; paraphyses
  1. He assumed the tone of a street-singer, opening each canto with the customary invocation to Madonna or a paraphrase of some Church collect, and dismissing his audience at the close with grateful thanks or brief good wishes.

  2. Of such compositions we have excellent specimens in Girolamo Benivieni's version of the novel of Tancredi, and in an anonymous rhymed paraphrase of Patient Grizzel.

  3. Footnote 159: Take an example from the Paraphrase in an old Psalter: “The arne,” i.

  4. Warburton, writing of the Imitations of Horace, says: 'Whoever expects a paraphrase of Horace or a faithful copy of his genius or his manner of writing in these Imitations will be much disappointed.

  5. I have been obliged to paraphrase the sentence considerably to render it intelligible to the modern reader.

  6. The last lines are so mutilated that I have been obliged to paraphrase them.

  7. Of the three the one used earliest is Shaikh Zain's Tabaqat-i-baburi which is a Persian paraphrase of part of Babur's Hindustan section.

  8. Shaikh Zain may have used Babur's autograph manuscript for his paraphrase and with it the Revenue List.

  9. As Coleridge says that 'he read through Ottfried's metrical paraphrase of the Gospel' when he was at Göttingen, it may be assumed that the translation was made in 1799.

  10. The most famous translation or rather paraphrase was made, however, by Chaucer for the Knight's Tale in the Canterbury Tales; and of this I speak elsewhere.

  11. Alan lifted and slowly read the page or paraphrase which he had just laid down.

  12. This prose paraphrase really proves that the original had no touch of poetry.

  13. A prose paraphrase or explanation of a verse poem is always interesting in helping us understand the nature of poetry.

  14. Let us paraphrase this passage and try to retain the idea, the emotion and a prose rhythm by just changing a few words.

  15. He takes four lines from the second book of Paradise Regained, describing Christ's ascent up a hill, and gives us a prose paraphrase of them.

  16. On his discharge, he sought refuge in the hamlet of Totteridge, where he wrote and published that Paraphrase on the New Testament which was made the ground of his prosecution and trial before Jeffreys.

  17. He translated part of the Apophthegms of Erasmus, and assisted in making the English version of his Paraphrase of the New Testament.

  18. Will the Vice-President or any person of plain common sense undertake to say, that this is not a correct paraphrase of the negative clause in the Constitution?

  19. To paraphrase this sentence: "These false apostles do not merely trouble you, they abolish Christ's Gospel.

  20. To paraphrase him: "You are established in this belief that Christ is very God because He gives grace and peace, gifts which only God can create and bestow.

  21. Dean Jonathan's Paraphrase on the Fourth Chapter of Genesis.

  22. Paraphrase on the 104th Psalm, which, though much superior in poetry to his Four Last Things, yet falls greatly short of that excellent version by Mr. Blacklocke, quoted in the Life of Dr.

  23. A Paraphrase on the Book of Job; the Songs of Moses, Deborah and David; the ii.

  24. He wrote a Paraphrase on the 104th Psalm, which, after it had received the approbation of Mr. Rickerton, he permitted his friends to copy.

  25. The Correct Meaning,' or Paraphrase of Hsing Ping (see p.

  26. To the paraphrase of each paragraph are subjoined critical notes, digested from a great variety of scholars, but without the mention of their names.

  27. The paraphrase is full, perspicuous, and elegant.

  28. After the paraphrase we have Explanations (解).

  29. Above, we have an analysis of every chapter, followed by a paraphrase of the several paragraphs.

  30. A Paraphrase for Daily Lessons, Explaining the Meaning of the Four Books.

  31. And perhaps, therefore, the original may be more faithfully rendered (like many of the Odes of Horace) by paraphrase than translation.

  32. A poetical paraphrase in Italian by Giuliano Dati was published in Rome in June, 1493.

  33. De Lollis points out that these striking words are a paraphrase of the famous lines in Seneca's Medea, Chorus, Act II.

  34. Well, indeed, in such cases, may we paraphrase the words of Dr.

  35. The stammerer, then, to paraphrase Emerson, should "Write it on his heart that TODAY is the very best day in the year.

  36. The true decadent, to paraphrase a famous saying, wears his vices lightly, like a flower.

  37. And therefore it is better to let Masefield tell this in poetry than to attempt to paraphrase it.

  38. A paraphrase of the 137th psalm by Charles Churchill may, perhaps, be deemed not unworthy of a place amongst your Notes.

  39. For logic is only a paraphrase of this principle, and, more exactly, only of that exemplification of it in which the ground that gives truth to the judgment is neither empirical nor metaphysical, but logical or metalogical.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paraphrase" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amplification; burlesque; copy; crib; decipher; decoding; dummy; duplication; facsimile; gloss; imitation; interpret; key; model; paraphrase; parody; pony; rendering; replica; representation; reproduction; restate; simplify; transcription; translate; translation; transliteration; travesty; trot; version