Example sentences for: phrasal

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

  • Also, the alphabetical order might prove a bit off-putting for some, for phrasal verbs are set flush left with a hanging indention (like headwords) immediately after the main verb: for instance, take , which has fifteen main entries of its own (for reasons we shall get to), is followed by headword-style entries for take after, take against , etc., through take up with ; it is only then that one reaches the entry for takeaway .

  • There is a difference between using a word in a phrasal definition and suggesting it as a— presumably substitutable—synonym.

  • On the other hand, the cryptogram composer is free to conceal these signals in all sorts of phrasal hocus-pocus:

  • The question is trivial, for the systems need not be mutually exclusive, nor need they exclude phrasal sets like Shut up!

  • A careful estimate indicates that the TBDNE contains about 9,000 headwords with an additional 2,000 or so other entry words; of these 11,000 or so entries, some 2,300 (about 21%) are phrasal.


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