Examples of 'phrase' in a sentence

Meaning of "phrase"

A phrase is a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit, typically forming a component of a clause
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  • A short written or spoken expression.
  • A word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, usually consisting of a head, or central word, and elaborating words.
  • A small section of music in a larger piece.
  • A mode or form of speech; diction; expression.

How to use "phrase" in a sentence

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A short phrase that summarizes your example.
Have you ever heard the phrase.
The phrase should perhaps be taken out.
The retention of the phrase had been questioned.
A phrase with more than one definition.
Encrypted with a phrase from a book or a poem or.
I have never heard that phrase used.
The first phrase could be clarified as follows.
Until she hears that magic phrase.
Last phrase in square brackets not applicable.
The most famous phrase of our country.
Is a phrase whose origins are complicated and rambling.
Not when you phrase it like that.
This phrase may be in upright type or italicized.
A fine turn of phrase for a bowel man.

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The phrase certainly called for clarification.
An image of the phrase cloud can be saved.
How much truth there is in that phrase.
Carry a phrase all the way through.
I have no idea what that phrase means.
But the phrase reads like this.
And then when you dropped a phrase.
Another phrase to avoid in front of the committee.
Wilson used exactly the same phrase.
Copy the phrase on your new slates.
He explained the literal meaning of the phrase.
The very phrase today sounds anachronistic.
We have been misusing that phrase for years.
That phrase is how he kept a clear conscience.
The reservation concerns the phrase in brackets.
That phrase has a wonderful period ring to it.
No one has said this phrase yet.
You use that phrase to imply frankness.
He does not understand the meaning of the phrase.
There is a useful phrase i always fall back on.
Father would have loved that phrase.
Using a key phrase chosen by the creator.
Cassius contributed several nice turns of phrase.
Opens the phrase book edit window.
Who do you think coined the phrase.
Last woodwind phrase is four descending notes.
How many of them contain the phrase.
The third key phrase is access to information.
He asked to which peoples the phrase referred.
The introductory phrase is replaced by the following.
There are no other words to complete this phrase.
They used that phrase to activate you.
Give phrase numbers in order of increasing exposure.
I have expressed this phrase with care.
That phrase might have been used but.

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