Example sentences for: phrasing

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

  • Culturebox has not read the book in German, but those who have say the writing is stuffed with similarly witty phrasing.

  • (The style guide suggests not using "homosexual," although it gives no usable alternative; it labels "cancer patient" as offensive, and recommends "patient with cancer" as the proper phrasing.)

  • His finger work is impeccable, his phrasing elegant, his stance as swaggering as one could wish, but the sound of his instrument--a fortepiano, an earlier, less powerful version of our modern-day piano--is irreconcilably at odds with his intentions.

  • They go too far, though, when they attack “I lost my job” in place of “They fired me” on the grounds that such phrasing contributes to “the harmful stereotype of `woman as victim.

  • The parenthetical phrasing is emblematic of the tight construction of the first half of the TP.


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