Sentence examples for a hackneyed phrase from inspiring English sources

Yes, it's a hackneyed phrase, but politics is the art of the possible.

Too good to be true isn't a hackneyed phrase for nothing, Maya.

"Being in the right place at the right time is a hackneyed phrase but is nevertheless true as far as I am concerned".

For many, to use a hackneyed phrase, there has been something of a paradigm shift in our thinking about nature, a change reflected in these two messages.

"The kindness of strangers" has become a hackneyed phrase, but to the beneficiaries, as several of their children report in these pages, it was a tangible if miraculous reality.

As the editor in chief of Ladies Home Journall, I find it unfortunate that Judith Shulevitz, in a review of a book discussing the truths about women's lives, chooses to use such a hackneyed phrase when she says Judith Warner's "Perfect Madness" is written "in a breathy women's-mag style".

Whether or not there is a correspondingly hackneyed phrase in Pramoedya's native tongue, it is disheartening to see the heroine of the novel described twice on the first page as a "wisp of a thing".

Vast majority is an imprecise and hackneyed phrase, but presumably it is above 75percentt.

Sequoia Capital is a big hitter in the world of tech finance and, on this evidence, a master of the hackneyed phrase.

From now on, though, can we all agree to a moratorium on using the increasingly hackneyed phrase "first world problems," at least for a little while?

That hackneyed phrase applies: he was a gentleman and a scholar".