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Example sentences for: paraphrase

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The “stetson” version was a joking paraphrase.
To paraphrase Tolstoy paraphrasing Pushkin: All grammatical expressions resemble each other; each ungrammatical expression is ungrammatical in its own way.
This book (the possession of which may become a substitute for reading it, to paraphrase Anthony Burgess in The New York Times Book Review ) should appeal to anyone over the age of thirty who has developed a sufficiently mature sense of reality to become a cynic.
Media people, politicians and academics, to paraphrase Gavin Ewart, inflate the language in a way they shouldn't oughtn't just to make their pronouncements sound more important.
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 ...