idiom

Example Sentences

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The art in “The Culture” connects to all four of these elements, rather than to a single stylistic idiom like sampling.

From Washington Post

Price’s engagement with Black folk idioms in her symphonies and chamber music has also entered the spotlight as listeners have encountered these works for the first time.

From New York Times

These are full-throated, demonstrative singers well practiced in the idioms of contemporary American opera, singers of our place and time.

From Los Angeles Times

His program note said that this idiom was not usual for him, but that’s no reason for him to stop pursuing the line of thought in future pieces; the result on Saturday was transporting.

From New York Times

I’ve been burned by the spring idiom “in like a lion, out like a lamb,” enough times that I’m always skeptical that fairer weather is here to stay.

From New York Times