phrasal

Example Sentences

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Repetition has an indelible place in Black expressive culture: in the syncopated rhythms of jazz, the phrasal repetitions of the blues and the guttural moans of soul made meaningful by dint of remarkable vocal performances.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2021

Cline loves phrasal fragments: “The dark maritime cypress packed tight outside the window, the twitch of salt air.”

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016

If anything, its fractured lines and phrasal salad are a sign that something’s suspiciously wrong and the message should be discarded.

From Scientific American • Jun. 19, 2013

“Vaguely,” I said, and conjured a man with a mischievous face who ignored me unless he needed help with phrasal verbs.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2012

Of this a few verbal and phrasal instances will suffice.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir