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
He just went on talking, and Froissart, realising that Dawson could not understand his French, and that he himself could not give words to his feelings in English, relapsed into wrathful silence.
From The Lost Naval Papers by Copplestone, Bennet
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
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
