phrase
Example Sentences
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"People with Tourette's can say words or phrases they do not mean, do not endorse and feel great distress about afterwards," the spokesperson added.
From Barron's
Our continental spread allowed people to “light out for the territory,” in Mark Twain’s phrase, to shed one identity and assume another — a cowboy, maybe, or a con-man.
From Los Angeles Times
They communicate meaning by combining words into phrases, which are then arranged into sentences.
From Science Daily
Three little words rarely heard together in the Muslim world, and yet have become a common phrase in Somaliland, the breakaway region of Somalia.
From Barron's
The catch phrase “demographics is destiny” isn’t quite right.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
