Example sentences for: expressions

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

  • But a distinct majority of those surveyed failed even to recognize the expressions "New wine into old bottles" (Mark 2:22); "The price of wisdom is above rubies" (Job 28:18); "Put not your trust in princes" (Psalms 146:3); "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?"

  • "How is it that a miserably undemocratic, unenlightened culture 400 years ago could be more tolerant of expressions of same-sex love, or the appearance of it, than our own?"

  • The Yiddish language, through its color, its target-accurate expressions, its raw idioms, and its sayings exudes a refreshing magic and laughter, mixed with sober thought, that has been handed down from generation to generation and from nation to nation.

  • Congressional Democrats and the Clinton administration, sensing a political hazard, have piled on with their own expressions of outrage and calls for reform.

  • The most surprising result is the number of commonplace expressions that seem no longer to be all that common--that did not register at all or "fell on rocky ground" (Matthew 13:5).


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