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Example sentences for: phrases

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

Surely we are dealing with code-switching here --the use of words and phrases from two languages within the same speech event for stylistic effect, with an audience that is capable of appreciating the play on words.
The general production of the book is poor: the paper has too much “see-through,” causing the type on the back of a page to interfere with the legibility; the type is too gray; the definitions are run into one another, with semicolons in place of definition numbers, making it difficult to distinguish senses and requiring one to read through a long entry before coming to the sense sought; it is almost impossible to discover where a new part of speech begins; subentries of idiomatic phrases and phrasal verbs are given the same prominence as headwords, making them easy to find but detracting from the headword treatment; and the substandard typography has created many loose lines which poor proofreading has failed to catch.
Look at the two phrases: “We met Cohn as we came out of church” and “As we came out of the door I saw Cohn.”
..,” the phrases with which he so often begins his dairy entries.
I have recently met two phrases that I cannot find in the sort of reference books that might be expected to define them if they are, as the author I was reading implied, recognized political or economic terms.