Example sentences for: paraphrase

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

  • 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.

  • But Bush has never denied the accuracy of the reporter's paraphrase.

  • 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?

  • To critics who construe this as an attack on abortion rights, PK's defenders paraphrase the liberal slogan that NOW famously applied to abortion: "If you don't like Promise Keepers, don't marry one."

  • The “stetson” version was a joking paraphrase.


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