Sentence examples for a phrase that does from inspiring English sources

One Jet was quoted as saying that Groh growled that the nation was watching "a bunch of pathetic losers," a harsh phrase the coach yesterday denied saying and a phrase that does not fit.

In fairness to Rove – a phrase that does not come easily – his agenda does address the issue of a problematic Republican electorate: he aims to prevent ideologically driven voters from committing political suicide, dooming the party's chances of winning a Senate majority.

Ravenhill is "big in Germany", a phrase that doesn't carry the same pejorative subtext in the theatre world as it does in the music industry.

When Dick Cheney calls torture "enhanced interrogation," it doesn't make us understand torture in a different way; it's just a means for those who know they're doing something wrong to find a phrase that doesn't immediately acknowledge the wrongdoing.

They were in the category that Curley called "everyone but the person involved" — a phrase that doesn't seem to have struck any of the administrators as absurd, despite its omission of the person truly involved: the child in the shower.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — John Kerry's day-long victory dance celebrating the newly crowned World Champion Boston Red Sox — now there's a phrase that doesn't trip off the tongue — began Thursday morning when the presidential candidate emerged from his Toledo, Ohio, hotel with a Sox camp pulled down firmly over his brow, raised his arms exultantly and shouted "Yeah!" for waiting cameras.

I had a strong sense that she would not force a feeling or play a phrase that didn't come from somewhere inside herself; it was a kind of honesty and stubbornness I respected".

It was a phrase that didn't have a precise meaning and I think that perhaps lost its meaning as time went on.It became part and parcel of late-night humor.

"We want to keep the Gay White Way gay and white but without tarnish," he told The Times, with a phrasing that doesn't sound quite right today.

Lots of things are wrong with the opening phrase in the sentence below, including a participial phrase that doesn't modify the grammatical subject -- but the main thing is that the phrase doesn't need to be there.

Prof Janet Beer, VC of Oxford Brookes University, says: "I think critical mass is an overused phrase that doesn't really have much meaning.