give words to
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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
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Could I give words to the many thoughts which occupied me in endless succession during this interval, I should fill volumes.
From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
We did not stay to give words to our surprise; but hurrying our horses along with us, with joyful exclamations glided behind the rock.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne
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