give words to
Example Sentences
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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
That gentle glance, expressive of her weakness and her inability to give words to the feeling which overpowered her, was far more comprehensible to Andrii than any words.
From Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich
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
Distraction surrounded me; I cannot give words to my grief and despair.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana
