give words to
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“It’s cool to give words to what we already try to live by.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2024
She did not resemble the patients in the doctor’s office, those who came glassy-eyed and desperate, unable to sleep or breathe or urinate with ease, unable, above all, to give words to their pains.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Can I give words to thoughts and feelings that, as a tempest, hurry me along?
From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas
He had half consciously tried to give words to an image the girl had stirred in him.
From Erik Dorn by Hecht, Ben
She must give words to her discontent, and urge Canon Pascal to banish him from a spot where he was leading too dull a life.
From Cobwebs and Cables by Stretton, Hesba