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How to use phrase in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word phrase? Here are some examples.

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I think that everybody is now down in the dumps for want of a better phrase but I am sure that we will not give up now.
The melodic counterpart of isorhythmic patterning is the use of the same melodic phrase or line, each time at a different pitch level.
It seems forced and unnatural, as if it's something he knows he's supposed to be saying instead of a phrase he uses all the time.
The idea that the determiner heads a noun phrase might seem counterintuitive to some readers.
The reader can learn a lot from discussion about phrase marks and rests as they were used around 1800, as well as about legato versus staccato.
And the connection is a pithy phrase of Deputy Noonan's dating back to the 1987 election campaign.
Tell golfing partners for the 40th time how the phrase mashie niblick always makes you laugh.
Infra dig is short for the Latin phrase infra dignitatem which means beneath one's dignity.
There is no identical phrase in any of the statutes that are included in the booklet submitted by my learned friends.
Once this term began to be used, specificity disappeared and it became a catch-all phrase for all problematic Nigerian metalwork.
Eric was rapidly getting the drift of the conversation and trying to phrase a polite refusal in his mind.
So long as the payoff phrase is not actually a subject, the basic case rule would predict accusative case.
This same phrase is repeated later in but with an inceptive prefix emphasizing the inchoative sense.
My Mum is a domestic goddess, although I would submit that the phrase is an oxymoron.
Its search defaults to a Boolean AND and supports phrase searching with quotation marks.
Why call something by some Tibetan or Sanskrit or whatever name when you have a perfectly good English phrase to use?
I use this phrase here only because of its evocativeness and ability to capture perfectly the issues that I would like to address in this paper.
Somebody claiming to detect a divine design in respect of himself may phrase the idea in terms of humility, even submissiveness.
Nowadays, the phrase is extended to mean the ability to pass on one's genes to one's offspring.
He seems unaware that two consecutive nouns act as a prepositional phrase in English.
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