Example sentences for: phrase

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

  • Today, Gore and other Democrats use "risky tax scheme" with abandon, ignoring the disappearance of the circumstances that originally justified the phrase.

  • One character is named Bato, as in bato loco (crazy guy), a phrase of contemporary usage among Chicanos today.

  • The thundering Republican condemnations of the special prosecutor back then are just like the thundering Democratic condemnations today, down to the very phrase, "four years and $40 million."

  • A spoonerism, or more technically, a methathesis, is the transposition of letters, syllables, or sounds in a word or phrase.

  • The first is that the particular phrase Oh dear! is the earliest of the set, as has been already remarked; and secondly, that there is no trace whatever, even in dialects, of a fuller form like dear Lord.


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