Synonym: clause, part, passage, section. Similar words: enthrall, crash, trash, as far as, cameras, in so far as, contrast, case. Meaning: [freɪz] n. 1. an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence 2. a short musical passage 3. an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up 4. dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence. v. 1. put into words or an expression 2. divide, combine, or mark into phrases.
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31) I need to phrase my question rather carefully.
32) How shall I phrase it?
33) The girl turned a pretty phrase.
34) What is the exact meaning of this phrase?
35) Who coined the phrase "desktop publishing"?
36) Kate has a colourful turn of phrase.
37) The phrase is labelled as slang in the dictionary.
38) That's exactly the phrase I was looking for myself.
39) 'Very quickly indeed' is an adverbial phrase.
40) The phrase is loaded with irony.
41) What a strange turn of phrase!
42) It wasn't a happy choice of phrase given the circumstances.
43) Play this phrase staccato.
44) In the phrase 'you are',[sentencedict.com](sentencedict.com) the verb 'are' is in the second person and the word 'you' is a second-person pronoun.
45) He is meticulous in his choice of words and turns of phrase.
46) 'Making knowledge work' is the university's phrase, and it is no idle boast .
47) He was — what is the phrase I'm looking for — not intimately acquainted with his subject.
48) She has a nice turn of phrase which should serve her well in journalism.
49) His statement was too general and should have been qualified with phrase "in most cases".
50) I managed to make myself understood with the help of a phrase book.
51) The trouble was sparked off by an apparently harmless phrase.
52) This phrase may well have been a rendering of a popular Arabic expression.
53) Her unfortunate choice of phrase offended most of the audience.
54) In grammar, an adjunct is an adverb or adverbial phrase that gives extra information in a sentence.
55) Power corrupts and absolute power absolutely corrupts. That's the old hackneyed phrase, but it's true.
56) He'd thought the flight would never -- to coin a phrase -- get off the ground.
57) Cohen knows how to turn a phrase in his lyrics.
58) In the sentence 'By that time I will have finished, ' the verb phrase 'will have finished' is in the future perfect.
59) In the phrase 'Paris, the capital of France', 'the capital of France' is in apposition to 'Paris'.
60) The phrase has been in wide use from before 1950's.
More similar words: enthrall, crash, trash, as far as, cameras, in so far as, contrast, case, base, ease, phase, contrast to, harassment, by contrast, laser, in case, embarrassed, at ease, based on, release, purchase, in case of, increased, decrease, database, in any case, in a sense, basement, infrastructure, a series of.