Sentence examples for a phrasing from from inspiring English sources

It sounds doctrinaire, a phrasing from the 1930s, but then that anxious decade bears a close resemblance to the present in so many ways.

To borrow a phrase from Lee, Shearer is ready.

(Key — to steal a phrase from Nabokov — is "ideally bald").

"To borrow a phrase from Obama, yes we can.

"To the manner born" is a phrase from Hamlet.

A phrase from our differing backgrounds intrigued him suddenly.

Vegetable love (to filch a phrase from Marvell) ensues.

"I always remember a phrase from Wilenski," he told me.

"Die Fahne hoch!" ("The Flag on High") echoes a phrase from a Nazi marching song.

To borrow a phrase from the style lexicon, Ms Ackermann seems to be having a moment.

Reich has the reputation of being a "cool customer," to take a phrase from Joan Didion.