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UK
/fɹˈeɪz/
]
[ US /ˈfɹeɪz/ ]
[ US /ˈfɹeɪz/ ]
VERB
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put into words or an expression
He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees -
divide, combine, or mark into phrases
phrase a musical passage
NOUN
- a short musical passage
- an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
- an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
- dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence
How To Use phrase In A Sentence
- I've noticed a lot of people larding their speech with that phrase lately.
- We the Muslims unequivocally condemn abuse of the phrase Allahu Akbar and call on the imams and the scholars to recondition appropriate use of the phrase. Mike Ghouse: Allahu Akbar Is Abused
- Stealing away, (whence, I suppose, the ironical phrase of trusty Trojan to this day,) like a thief — pretendedly indeed at the command of the gods; but could that be, when the errand he went upon was to rob other princes, not only of their dominions, but of their lives? — Clarissa Harlowe
- However, I have no idea where this phrase originated and why we use it.
- Nixon came up with the phrase 'growth recession': even when things are not falling, it's not going to feel good. So what do we do now, chancellor?
- The term Great Depression was a perfect fit in the 1930s; nobody has coined a phrase to properly describe our current plight. Dispatch.com: RSS
- In this high opinion of his own rank, he was greatly fortified by his ideas of the military profession, which, in his phrase, made a valiant cavalier a camarade to an emperor. A Legend of Montrose
- This seemingly innocuous phrase was actually a veiled threat. THE GUARDSMEN
- Incommon law countries such as Canada, thetest of criminalliabilityis expressed by theLatinphrase, actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea, which means that “the act does not make a person guilty unless the mind is also guilty”. Man Not Criminally Responsible for Greyhound Bus Beheading; Victim’s Family Call for Punishment : Law is Cool
- He stared out at the assembled media and uttered the immortal phrase: 'We have lost a game we should have won. The Sun
