PHRASE in a Sentence

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The resource person may correct a serious error and repeat the phrase again but with no trace of disapproval or reproach.

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 Meanings and Examples of PHRASE
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phrase
 n.  a group of words without a finite verb, especially used to form part of a sentence
 v.  say; express in the stated way
Classic Sentence: (134 in 9 pages)
1  Then, raising his head, he repeated the act of contrition, phrase by phrase, with fervour.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  The boys answered him phrase by phrase.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  But the phrase on the priest's lips was disingenuous for he knew that a priest should not speak lightly on that theme.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
4  The phrase had been spoken lightly with design and he felt that his face was being searched by the eyes in the shadow.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
6  The heavy lumpish phrase sank slowly out of hearing like a stone through a quagmire.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
7  His phrase was greeted by a strange laugh from a student who lounged against the wall, his peaked cap down on his eyes.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  There came to his mind a curious phrase from CORNELIUS A LAPIDE which said that the lice born of human sweat were not created by God with the other animals on the sixth day.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
9  He used the phrase broadly and loudly as he often used technical expressions, as if he wished his hearer to understand that they were used by him without conviction.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  His last phrase, sour smelling as the smoke of charcoal and disheartening, excited Stephen's brain, over which its fumes seemed to brood.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  The Frenchmen flung their laughter and light words over their shoulders and often Jimmy had to strain forward to catch the quick phrase.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AFTER THE RACE
12  He stared intently at the incomplete phrase: In no case shall the said Bernard Bodley be.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In COUNTERPARTS
13  But they were friends of many years' standing and their careers had been parallel, first at the University and then as teachers: he could not risk a grandiose phrase with her.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
14  Gabriel, trembling with delight at her sudden kiss and at the quaintness of her phrase, put his hands on her hair and began smoothing it back, scarcely touching it with his fingers.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In THE DEAD
15  It came at the end of his speeches like a seal applied on the words to make the meaning of the commonest phrase appear absolutely inscrutable.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  She was, in her own favourite phrase, 'a woman without a past'.
2  The phrase "yeah yeah yeah" can rarely have been delivered with so much unhinged passion.
3  We bought a Danish phrase book.
4  It wasn't a happy choice of phrase given the circumstances.
5  He is meticulous in his choice of words and turns of phrase.
6  That's exactly the phrase I was looking for.
7  In the phrase 'a hard frost', 'hard' is a collocation of 'frost' and 'strong' would not sound natural.
8  Oh, well, no news is good news, to coin a phrase.
9  He hashed a phrase in order to colour the sentence.
10  The resource person may correct a serious error and repeat the phrase again but with no trace of disapproval or reproach.
11  She has a nice turn of phrase which should serve her well in journalism.
12  He turned his head slightly, his lips moving in a phrase audible only to the Caverna.
13  He was using the phrase to exhort his compatriots to prepare for war, to engage in the struggle for freedom.
14  The phrase "to lose one's marbles" is an idiom: if I say that Joe's lost his marbles, I'm not asking you to find some for him. I'm telling you that he's crazy.
15  But before I go on, tell me what you mean by your 'Well, sir?' It is a small phrase very frequent with you; and which many a time has drawn me on and on through interminable talk: I don't very well know why.