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Example sentences for "phrase used"

  • HARD TACK is also a phrase used by the London lower classes to signify coarse or insufficient food.

  • Dusty~, a phrase used in answering a question where one expects approbation.

  • A word or phrase used in conversation; a colloqualism.

  • Into what may a phrase used as an adverb be expanded?

  • An infinitive is generally introduced by to, and with it forms a phrase used as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb.

  • We shall now learn that a phrase used as an adverb may be expanded into an +Adverb clause+.

  • Fine skran, a phrase used by children, in commendation of any thing they are fond of, especially if edible, Lanerks.

  • Pardon me, forgive me; excuse me; -- a phrase used also to express courteous denial or contradiction.

  • Top and but (Shipbuilding), a phrase used to denote a method of working long tapering planks by bringing the but of one plank to the top of the other to make up a constant breadth in two layers.

  • A phrase used as a noun is called a +noun-phrase+.

  • A phrase used as a verb is called a +verb-phrase+.

  • A phrase used as an adjective is called an +adjective phrase+.

  • A phrase used as an adverb is called an +adverbial phrase+.

  • This form of the verb is frequently the principal word of a phrase used as a subject or as an object, complement; as, To read good books is profitable; I like to read good books.

  • Find in 1 a pronoun used adverbially and a phrase used as object complement.

  • They are really connective words serving to connect the noun or adjective or phrase used in the predicate with the noun which they modify.

  • An interjection is an exclamatory word or phrase used to express feeling or to imitate some sound.

  • A phrase used to describe and modify a noun is an adjective phrase.

  • The noun or adjective or phrase used to complete the meaning of the copulative verb is called a predicate complement.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phrase used" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    black coat; considerable majority; conversation with; dozen large; few days after the; fine writing; formerly called; given thee; knew they; large calibre; later times; living sacrifice; phrase used; popular governments; private armed; quarterly meeting; real name; speak freely; successful operation; take possession; with much; would not have been