Example sentences for: paraphrase

How can you use “paraphrase” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To paraphrase the German proverb: it's the stress that makes the meaning.

  • This reassurance--that somehow things will be all right, that there is a lot of ruin in a man, as well as in a nation, to paraphrase his idol, Adam Smith--has become part of me, and I can still summon it up when I am terrified because of a huge quarterly tax payment due or a bad day on the market.

  • The following consists of two lists, the first a supplementary glossary to that published in Colonial American English; the second a list of words and phrases he has uncovered but which, owing to lack of context or paraphrase, he has been unable to define.

  • Seeing Women and Girls as People, Chapter 4, settles down to some good advice, describing what might be offensive to women and how to get around it through paraphrase.

  • I paraphrase, of course, and no doubt incompetently.


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