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
It was useless to give words to his troubles, however, and he did his best to appear contented, lest Stephen should carry to his mother the report that her son had lost courage.
From Neal, the Miller A Son of Liberty by Otis, James
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
I could not exactly give words to the impression in my brain, and the sense that he was going to speak, about to speak each second, worried me.
From To-morrow? by Cross, Victoria
