Words similar to phrases

Example sentences for: phrases

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

Instead, it tries to document the varieties of English that are not found throughout the country—those words, pronunciations, and phrases that vary from one region to another, that are learned at home rather than at school, or that are part of our oral rather than our written culture.
However, students of a foreign language soon realize that to master it fully, it is not enough to know the grammatical structure and basic vocabulary: one must also memorize a fair number of phrases and idiomatic expressions and, as a further step, proverbs and sayings.
The telltale sign that such phrases represent the illicit smuggling into a story of a political opinion is that just below this the story continues, "The White House has steadfastly said that Clinton would not take such a step and instantly rejected the proposal."
And some phrases:
Phrases, being more semantically complex than single words, are usually harder to translate.