The phrase "a phrase that makes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the impact or effect of a particular phrase or expression.
Example: "This is a phrase that makes you think deeply about the meaning of life."
Alternatives: "a phrase that creates" or "a phrase that evokes".
It's a phrase that makes Ms. Wells bristle.
This is a phrase that makes make me grind my teeth with rage... Lost?
— time and place forming as you read along, and then comes a phrase that makes the forming stutter.
"Just as much as if you were white," Eva reassures her, using a phrase that makes alarm bells go off in our heads.
As he once told a roomful of students, with mock severity, "Beauty is the enemy of expression!" That's not a phrase that makes great marketing copy.
Both men were being sponsored for green cards by employers, as "aliens of extraordinary ability" -- a phrase "that makes people think of E.T.," Ms. Barschdorff joked.
Mr Bush created an axis out of it, a phrase that made more sense to Americans than to anyone else.
After a decade and a half, we still have no distance from the war on terror — a phrase that made Sifton recoil when President Bush first used it, in the days after September 11th.
Likewise, Shakespeare had neither sexual intercourse, a phrase that made its debut in 1753, nor sex, which only became a synonym for it in the early 20th century, nor did he have the Enlightenment euphemisms intimacy and union.
In the Village, McGoohan's character is stripped of his name and forced to take a new identity, that of No. 6. "I am not a number, I am a free man!" No. 6 bellows at the start of each of the 17 episodes, a phrase that made the original series a favorite of young iconoclasts on both sides of the Atlantic.
That's a nice phrase that makes you think they're doing things differently, but they still believe in arresting people who use drugs.
