phrasal

Example Sentences

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But what about phrasal gaffes that make just as much, if not more, sense than their correct counterparts?

From Salon • Feb. 28, 2022

Repetition has an indelible place in Black expressive culture: in the syncopated rhythms of jazz, the phrasal repetitions of the blues and the guttural moans of soul made meaningful by dint of remarkable vocal performances.

From New York Times • Mar. 4, 2021

The phrasal verb steadily shines as a dismissal, a damnation, and a barked call to attention—an essential caustic shade in the brilliant blue streaks of the dialogue.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 14, 2019

Kafka’s work includes plenty of the hurdles to machine reading recently cataloged by a group of Indian computer scientists, including “complex phrasal structures” and the fact that words can have different meanings in different contexts.

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2018

Of this a few verbal and phrasal instances will suffice.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir