Furthermore, says Pontanus, one can write very good poetry by paraphrasing orations in verse.
The Septuagint, the Greek version of the Bible in use at the time of Christ, reveals the same tendency toward paraphrasing or spiritualizing the anthropomorphic phrases of the older Bible.
I profited much by the advice of a hard-headed old countryman--who was unconsciously paraphrasing the Duke of Wellington, who was himself doubtless paraphrasing somebody else.
Paraphrasing these words, the Apostle states that Jesus is the chief corner-stone.
Paraphrasing his words we note he said this: 'The day of my coming no one now knows except my Father.
The rest of the book Berlioz wrote himself, now paraphrasing the original poet, now going to him only for a suggestion.
Shaikh Zain applies the word bahri to the porpoise, when paraphrasing the Babur-nama f.
You used one form of paraphrasing in the exercise on page 60, when you explained figurative expressions by changing them into simpler or plainer language.
In a similar manner paraphrasing will aid you in understanding difficult passages, whether in verse or in prose, which you may come on in your reading.
Field's favorite ode was the Bandusian Spring, the paraphrasing of which in the styles of the various writers of different periods gave him genuine joy and is perhaps the choice bit of the collection.
I am but paraphrasing what was said recently by an Oxford professor.
The process of paraphrasing is simple, though the actual work is not easy.
Thus, in paraphrasing a text of Deuteronomy, (xxxii.
Jonathan writes: God is near in the name of the Word of Jehovah; in paraphrasing a text of Hosea iv.
Next comes his Liber de sex principiis, which is a paraphrasing exposition of the work of Gilbert de la Porree.
Constitutions, as governmental panaceas, have come and gone; but it can be said of the American Constitution, paraphrasing the noble tribute of Dr.
The paraphrasing of evidence is the work of a reporter; from the historian we have a right to expect the skilled summing-up of the judge.
Time after time in Mr Freeman's work we find him paraphrasing patches of chronicles, under the impression that he was writing history.
Paraphrasing is a good exercise, provided that it does not consist in turning good and beautiful English into bad.
Paraphrasing Ruskin, one may say of Hardy that in place of studying the old masters he has studied what the old masters studied.
The paraphrasing of masterpieces is to me nothing less than a sacrilege.
Any paraphrasing and explaining should be carefully held to its place as an inadequate and unfortunate necessity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paraphrasing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
