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

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

She did not utter those thoughts aloud, she did not dare give words to that deep wretchedness, for she felt her only sustaining strength was in her God.

From Home Influence A Tale for Mothers and Daughters by Aguilar, Grace

Here Leontes is confounded with his passion, and does not know which way to turn himself, to give words to the anguish, rage, and apprehension which tug at his breast.

From Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by Hazlitt, William