Paraphrasing

I was paraphrasing.

Paraphrasing is all well and good as long as you don't have the original sentence in sight when you seek to paraphrase.

Sami is paraphrasing here.

I'm paraphrasing.

You can make use of paraphrasing to explain a word that you don't know in French.

Douglas Adams once said that any technology that exists when you're born is just a normal part of how the world works. Anything that comes out before you're 40 is new and exciting and you can probably get a career in it, while anything that comes out after is an abomination to nature. I'm slightly paraphrasing.

Several paragraphs are mainly composed of paraphrasings or direct quotations from a single reference source.