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
The line length is now based on phrasal rhythm, and at other times on no discoverable principle except that of beginning a new line with some emphatic word.
From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin
