Example sentences for: paraphrase

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

  • If anything, they veer in the opposite direction--"dumb enough to be a conceptualist," to paraphrase Duchamp--but is banality the only antidote to aridity?

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

  • In many cases, the paraphrase, All students should bring their books to class tomorrow , and similar pluralizations will conveniently turn the trick without distorting the meaning.

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

  • I guess I'm satisfied that writing is good for you, won't cure a thing, and anyway, writers seem not to have a choice in the matter: To paraphrase the words of Gene Kelly, we just gotta write, gotta write ...


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