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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181) When a quotation is followed by an attributive phrase, the comma is enclosed within the quotation marks.
182) Between the two of you - well, in his own phrase, it's a close-run thing.
183) Never has his favourite phrase sounded so dismally precise: My, my, ain't the world strange.
184) It's easier, though, to remember a meaningful sentence or phrase of six words than to remember six disconnected words.
185) Here the element of change is contained within a repetition of the original phrase idea.
186) To sum up all of the above in one phrase - cyclic controls speed, throttle controls height.
187) But on the way back to town that phrase from Topaz's last note was going round and round in my mind.
188) Despite this there have been various Parliamentary attempts to define the phrase.
189) Agnes watched with amusement as his interest quickened or faded with each phrase.
190) Respectable working class,(http://sentencedict.com/phrase.html) that's the phrase they use about families like mine.
191) This phrase always intrigued Bob; as if the speaker could split herself in two, providing a doppelganger companion.
192) He had just remembered where he'd heard the phrase with which Crepi had rung off.
193) It is a world in which the grimace is often more eloquent than the phrase.
194) Raphaelo Florienborque, leader of the Phantasms, joked that maybe they should take that phrase literally.
195) These are words of closed, classes which have grammatical functions in the phrase, clause or sentence.
196) The alteration of stress on certain words can completely change the meaning of a phrase or sentence.
197) But the political row is far more than a linguistic challenge about expressing love for the fatherland without using the forbidden phrase.
198) He said he used the phrase as a figure of speech, and did not mean to imply she was a coward.
199) The key factor, phrase or word is more important than the main topic.
200) Akai tried a similar idea a few years back with their U4 phrase trainer, but that was, surprisingly[sentencedict.com], a flop.
201) The probability of each part of speech starting and ending a noun phrase was then determined from this data.
202) It's not a phrase I've had occasion to use all that much.
203) The phrase ends on a final ambiguous chord - B, E, B.
204) She kindly said she would, but we both used a spiritual eraser to delete that particular phrase.
205) Killing the fatted calf is another Biblical phrase which ought to act as an antidote to killjoy Christmases.
206) However, I have no idea where this phrase originated and why we use it.
207) He was a slow-talking Mississippian with a penchant for the rustic turn of phrase and a gift for storytelling.
208) He was all for the racy phrase.
209) Notice that this is a set phrase.
210) I know it's a set phrase.
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.