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
We did not stay to give words to our surprise; but hurrying our horses along with us, with joyful exclamations glided behind the rock.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne
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
He sat helplessly repeating himself, in his efforts to give words to his sorrow for the "kid."
From The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories by Foote, Mary Hallock
