How To Use Periphrasis In A Sentence

Such recondite periphrasis brought its own reward.
This isn't what ‘ineffable’ means: she's using it as a fancy periphrasis for ‘unspeakable’, but its orientation is exactly the opposite.
When Johnson refers to his mind as ‘Summus… celsa dominator [in] arce ’, the elaborate periphrasis mockingly dramatizes the blustery ‘empty force’ of his mind's pretensions.
Can one be an avid fan of a book - or is this lazy-minded periphrasis for ‘favourite’?
[Sidenote: _Periphrasis_, or the Figure of ambage.] The Arte of English Poesie

The parodic cupid's dart is described with the maximum of periphrasis compatible with not actually disguising what the organ is, ‘a piece of flesh, the characteristic part of a barrow-pig’.
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synec-doche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes-the whole bag of tricks. The Two Malcontents
Tell me, then, for you can, in what periphrasis of language, in what circumvolution of phrase, I shall envelope, yet not conceal, the plain story. The Letters of Robert Burns
In order to refer to the activity denoted by the F-word, it is necessary to engage in circumlocution or periphrasis.
In order to refer to that activity, it is necessary to engage in circumlocution or periphrasis.
Such recondite periphrasis brought its own reward.
Horace's Epicuri de grege, but let none add to it the sad spondee which ends the hemistich, "is more unsettling, since it mainly seems devoted to playing, through negation and elaborate periphrasis, with the possibility of referring to its subject as" an Economies of Excess in Brillat-Savarin, Balzac, and Baudelaire