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Phrase
"Phrase" in a Sentence (19 examples)
You know the phrase, we reap what we sow. I have sown the wind and this is my storm.
The phrase is meant to insult people.
How is this phrase to be interpreted?
What is the meaning of this phrase?
You can omit the preposition in this phrase.
I wonder what this phrase means.
"Call up" is a phrase that means to telephone.
Although the phrase "world peace" sounds attractive, the road to world peace is very long and full of troubles.
Look up the phrase in your dictionary.
Instead of giving the money, that is the normal coin of the realm, which is the phrase that everyone used then, they would give them a token, and this token might be metal, might be wood, might be cardboard.
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Holonyms: clause, sentence; phrasing, phraseology, turn of phrase; phrase-book; document, message; language; communication
Meronyms: head, complement, adjunct, supplement, modifier; term, word
Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?
There is always a head in a phrase. When it is not accompanied by anything else, we have a one-word phrase. Cheese can be an NP [noun phrase], and so can squid. If we didn't allow one-word phrases, we'd often have to say "either a noun or an NP," "either a verb or a VP," and so on. When I talk about a phrase, always remember that I don't mean a unit containing more than one word; I mean a unit with at least one word (the head), which may contain other words as well.
Thou speak'st / In better phrase and matter than thou didst.
[…] From out a common vein of memory / Sweet household talk, and phrases of the hearth, […]
I wasn't sure how to phrase my condolences without sounding patronising.
These suns — for so they phrase 'em.
Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.
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