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
If on the first occasion our presentiment of something mysterious and inexplicable had compelled silence, it was now no less impossible to give words to that which we silently acknowledged.
From My Life — Volume 2 by Wagner, Richard
He had half consciously tried to give words to an image the girl had stirred in him.
From Erik Dorn by Hecht, Ben
Let her astonishment be imagined—we will not attempt to give words to her feelings.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various
