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

The phrasal verb steadily shines as a dismissal, a damnation, and a barked call to attention—an essential caustic shade in the brilliant blue streaks of the dialogue.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 14, 2019

Kafka’s work includes plenty of the hurdles to machine reading recently cataloged by a group of Indian computer scientists, including “complex phrasal structures” and the fact that words can have different meanings in different contexts.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2018

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

His sense of humor was altogether phrasal, like that of most multimillionaires.

From H. R. by Lefevre, Edwin