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Example sentences for "phrase"

Lexicographically close words:
photostat; photostatic; photostats; photosynthesis; phou; phrased; phraseology; phrases; phrasing; phratria
  1. When I use the phrase "spare time," that does not mean for the consideration of peace, but for the consideration of myself and my obligations.

  2. I am not upset by your phrase "angry with almighty God.

  3. As for your news that there is a wonderful interest in my arrival and that none of the "right or right enough party" doubt as to my future action, I don't understand your phrase "the right party.

  4. John Morley was not born in humble life, as the phrase goes, and had not, so far as I know, to struggle against early poverty.

  5. The Conservative party in this country used to have for a long time one particular phrase which was understood to embody the heaviest accusation that could be brought against a public man.

  6. The phrase 'mean and gentle' appears to us to refer to the various ranks of the English army who are mentioned in the previous line.

  7. Footnote 8: I venture to use this word in place of the phrase "lava-yielding" for the reason that the term is needed in the description of volcanoes.

  8. He thinks he sees the hand of an editor in the phrase for a second time in ver.

  9. Zephaniah uses the same phrase as Amos: the Day of Jehovah, he says, is drawing near.

  10. The whole phrase might be rendered, Is it with hills Thou art angry, O Jehovah?

  11. The omission of the phrase king of Judah after Hezekiah’s name proves nothing; it may have been of purpose because the phrase has to occur immediately again.

  12. Philistia lay on the path of the Scythian invasion; the phrase in ver.

  13. It is tempting to find in the first syllable of Bethel the remnant of the phrase to the house of Jehovah.

  14. Here the phrase is used domestically of servants in the presence of their master.

  15. He charges them not only with irreverence and slovenliness in their discharge of the Temple service—for this he appears to intend by the phrase filth of your feasts—but with the neglect of their intellectual duties to the people.

  16. To this they refer the phrase in Obadiah 9, the men of thy covenant have betrayed thee.

  17. See above, note 1393, on the same mis-read phrase in ver.

  18. Besides, the meaning of the phrase is not certain; it may be only a general statement corresponding to what seems a general statement in the first clause of the verse.

  19. Footnote 1: A tragical phrase much in use.

  20. This I pass by, as well as all remarks on the genius of the great men themselves, who are (to fetch a phrase from school, a phrase not improperly mentioned on this occasion) great dabs at this kind of facetiousness.

  21. It is the stock phrase of consolation and explanation.

  22. This phrase I borrow from one who was in the first gas attack at Ypres.

  23. How may the repetition of a word or phrase affect the Emphasis?

  24. In the phrase "The German heart" the chief emphasis is on "heart," with a slighter emphasis on German.

  25. How does the voice indicate that this phrase is parenthetical?

  26. Which phrase in this series has the strongest Emphasis?

  27. Many mining districts in which men can earn large wages show a low wage level for women, while in such a district as Hebden Bridge, where, as the phrase goes, it pays a man better to have daughters than sons, the opposite condition prevails.

  28. As dull as arithmetic" is a phrase that is familiar to almost every schoolboy, and is a figure of comparison that is frequently evoked by those sages who hold down empty cracker-boxes in rural general stores.

  29. Everywhere throughout these negotiations the phrase "self-government" is used as contradistinguished from "independence.

  30. No doubt I have done a little towards straightening the tangle, but things that I can't phrase have helped me.

  31. Oh, sir, this is so sudden"--that prudish phrase exactly expressed her when her time came.

  32. Somehow the barriers of wealth had fallen, and there had been--he could not phrase it--a general assertion of the wonder of the world.

  33. He rubbed his hands softly in appreciation of the "color scheme" as he termed it--a phrase that puzzled Augustus.

  34. It was the same phrase which had come the other day from the two children.

  35. How solemnly sounded in that solitude the fateful phrase "but that the dread of something after death!

  36. The phrase never left him from that day, and became a prophecy of woe afterwards.

  37. As the payment he received was in grain, he was said to "till with his tongue," which phrase has now become a current expression for earning one's living as a teacher.

  38. If a single phrase were unsympathetic to my thoughts, Then, though my Lord sang ten thousand verses which should cause even the dust on the beams to fly, to me it would be nothing.

  39. The phrase "My servant Jacob," which, in the former passages is the rule, never occurs in the latter.

  40. She had married beneath her, as the phrase is, and she was a little too conscious of it.

  41. On all occasions, and under all circumstances, she spoke her mind (as the phrase is) with the same uncompromising plainness.

  42. Her little phrase book seemed pitifully inadequate for the great things in her mind.

  43. When hunger drove her to the bell again he came back and found her with her little phrase book in her hands, feverishly turning the pages.

  44. At the first musical phrase they circle, at the second they join and part gracefully and quietly, whispering: --Do you remember?

  45. After each short phrase a brief but profound pause follows.

  46. The truth is that his grammar is not only good but strong; it is far better in construction than Thackeray's, the ease of whose phrase sometimes exceeds and is slack.

  47. It is the same with many another word or phrase changed, by passing into his vocabulary, into something rich and strange.

  48. The author of the phrase "The child contracted a partiality for his toys" had no need to fear any authors she might meet at dinner.

  49. The night is perceived, the phrase is an experience; both have their place in the reader's irrevocable past.

  50. For we might well spare the phrase of wit just quoted rather than the one describing Traddles (whose hair stood up), as one who looked "as though he had seen a cheerful ghost.

  51. He might have convinced us of that welcome by one phrase of the profound exactitude of genius.

  52. And others again would have the phrase to be remembered foremost.

  53. I dare say the historian who rings the changes on the Tuez-les-tous phrase never heard of St. Jean and his Maturins.

  54. Gregory X intoned the Credo in Latin, and the Greek patriarch repeated thrice the Filioque phrase which, centuries earlier, had been the occasion of the break with Rome, qui ex Patre Filioque procedit.

  55. One of these comparisons is, however, a homology not an analogy, and the last phrase throws a little doubt upon the whole question, for it is not made clear whether it is position or function that determines what are equivalent organs.

  56. In the last phrase we may perhaps read the first recognition of the embryological criterion.

  57. It is clear that Darwin took the phrase "Conditions of Existence" to mean the environmental conditions, and the law of the Conditions of Existence to mean the law of adaptation to environment.

  58. In a later essay (1835) in the same volume he says that all natural science is nothing but a long commentary on the single phrase Es werde!


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phrase" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adage; address; affirmation; allegation; answer; aphorism; apothegm; article; articulate; assertion; axiom; book; breathe; bridge; burden; byword; cadence; catchword; chime; chorus; clause; coda; column; comment; communicate; composition; conceive; construction; convey; couch; crack; declaration; deliver; development; dialect; dictate; diction; dictum; disclose; division; emit; enunciate; epigram; exclamation; exposition; express; expression; figure; folio; formulate; formulation; frame; gathering; give; gnome; grammar; greeting; icon; idiom; impart; installment; interjection; interlude; intermezzo; language; lip; locution; measure; mention; moral; mot; motif; motive; motto; movement; note; number; observation; oracle; ornament; page; paragraph; parlance; part; passage; period; phrase; phraseology; phrasing; position; precept; prescript; present; pronounce; pronouncement; proverb; put; question; raise; reflection; refrain; remark; resolution; response; rhetoric; saw; say; saying; section; sentence; serial; sheet; shibboleth; sign; signature; slogan; sound; speech; stanza; state; statement; strain; style; subject; sutra; symbol; talk; teaching; tell; term; text; theme; thought; token; type; usage; utter; utterance; variation; verbiage; verse; voice; volume; watchword; whisper; wisdom; witticism; word; wording