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
I now believe he did so because of not daring to give words to his affection for me, lest he weaken my heart when he would have it stout.
From The Minute Boys of York Town by Otis, James
He sat helplessly repeating himself, in his efforts to give words to his sorrow for the "kid."
From The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories by Foote, Mary Hallock
Let her astonishment be imagined—we will not attempt to give words to her feelings.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
