give words to
Example Sentences
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“It’s cool to give words to what we already try to live by.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2024
She did not resemble the patients in the doctor’s office, those who came glassy-eyed and desperate, unable to sleep or breathe or urinate with ease, unable, above all, to give words to their pains.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
In one such vocero the widow pathetically crowds epithet on epithet, in the attempt to give words to her affection and her sorrow.
From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn
She did not utter those thoughts aloud, she did not dare give words to that deep wretchedness, for she felt her only sustaining strength was in her God.
From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Aguilar, Grace
Distraction surrounded me; I cannot give words to my grief and despair.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana
