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Example sentences for: phrase

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

To illustrate the expletive use of the word damn , for instance, H.C. Wyld's Universal Dictionary of the English Language [George Routledge and Sons, 1932] prints the phrase damn this dictionary .
Under this last heading, among the many alleged undesirables in Juvenal's Rome is what he calls in a memorable phrase Graeculus esuriens , the “hungry little Greek.”
The neomorphemes show that in public life we are in a hurry and do not want to slow down long enough to devise an explanatory phrase if we can pack enough of our intention into a single word.
Clinton spokesman Mike McCurry, who had refused July 21 to comment on "matters in the other party," was so moved by Weld's new plea for a "fair hearing" that he repeated that phrase six times at his July 31 press briefing.
It is often misleadingly assumed in this phrase that there exists some common understanding of what "everything" entails.