Presently the door was flung open and a powdered footman, "all plush and calves" as Bindle phrased it, looked superciliously down at the group of men standing before him.
As Bindle phrased it, Mr. Hearty was "a damn good greengrocer.
As Green phrased it, "she might almost have walked it.
But the superintendent had, as he mentally phrased it, "tied a string to him," and it would not be his fault if nothing resulted.
Here with his books and terra-cottas he "grew old with a grace worthy of his rank," as Elton phrased it.
She had been proposed to by "half the eligibles and all the ineligibles in London," as Bowen phrased it; but she declared she would never marry until Peter married, and had thus got somebody else to mother him.
Paddy's Irish jig was pronounced to be "a caution out and out," so the men phrased it.
He had been going "back and fore," as he phrased it, to Greenland ever since he was a boy of ten, and he was now nearly thirty.
The shipping news continued to give sparsely phrased notice of the location and size of the silver sea.
It was, as he mentally phrased it to himself, because she looked "so damned refined.
And, so soon as man had developed the mental capacity to formulate ideas, one of the earliest ideas must have been the conception, however vaguely phrased in words, that all unsupported bodies fall towards the earth.
Life was good--was "bully," as Carrington phrased it.
You have to sling softsoap to suit the pig-headed old sissy," he phrased it.
Herself somewhat addicted to colloquial expressions, she failed to understand with what accuracy the Duke had phrased his reply.
And of course both The Quarterly and The Edinburgh had articles--“did him,” as his wife had phrased it.
Nash addressed to him many affectionately phrased sonnets.
Things certainly seemed at sixes and sevens, as Roy phrased it, the next morning.
The reaction caused by 'the Royal magnanimity,' as Mildred phrased it to Dr.
Heriot had once fabricated a weird plot of a story which was so charmingly terrible, as Chriss phrased it, that the girls declared nothing would induce them to remain in the glen after sundown.
Each was declared to be the prettiest girl, or the handsomest woman in Australasia—for the New Zealand competitor “took a lot of beating,” as an ardent youthful admirer phrased it.
Roland still continued to mend, as the surgeon phrased it; and as we went back to St. James's Square, Trevanion had the consideration to release me from my oar in his galley for the next few days.
The day finally came when his work was finished, and he could be, as he phrased it, "translated into a private citizen.
She never phrased her accusations, but he felt that in the unillumined void of the poor lady's mind they loomed up like vaguely-outlined monsters.
The clerks in business houses who usually attend to the mail seem to be picked for their obtuseness, and do not often understand a letter which is phrased in other than commonplace terms.
The average American vocabulary is quite limited, and where an exactly phrased letter might completely convey an exact thought to a person of education, that same letter might be meaningless to a person who understands but few words.
In most cases, these services are set out in booklets and the letter either encloses the booklet or is phrased to have the recipient ask for the booklet.
As a friend of mine picturesquely phrased it, I "had to break into the organization with a jimmy.
Mr. Wilson is an accomplished and scholarly man, a master of rhetoric, and the sentences in the book are well-phrased statements, usually inculcating a morality which is sound although vague and ill defined.
The shepherd hadn't "a much English", as hephrased it, but he answered as best he could.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phrased" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
