phrases

Example Sentences

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“Rollins hates clichés and signature phrases — ‘licks’ — and refuses to play them,” critic Stanley Crouch wrote in the New Yorker in 2005.

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

Right now, the phrases being used are 'undisclosed fee' and 'Rangers paid the required amount'.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

Children often learn the order of the planets in our Solar System using quirky memory phrases like "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos."

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

It’s full of decorative phrases like “the stubborn verb of living” that sound “poetic” but do no work.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

This helps students internalize the beat and phrases of the song.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin