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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:

One might object that the figure of 2000 is just so much puffery, but it must be conceded that defining 100,000 words and phrases using a vocabulary of even only 4400 is no mean feat.
One of the great contributions of the late Joseph Heller was his understanding of how ideas and phrases get repeated with mindless reverence in bureaucratic cultures.
Recycling phrases and images from earlier ads, the spot moves at light speed from campaign issue to campaign issue: deficits, education, and drug cuts, abortion, interest rates, and harm to the economy.
Like some of the phrases in other categories, several have become so common as to have ousted the original diction.
If we call the way the speakers of a given language puts its words together idiom , then the process of separating out the resulting phrases produces collocations .