Sentence examples for a real phrase from inspiring English sources

Mike Butcher: Is that a real phrase that goes around?

Also, I've seen real people use it as a real phrase, which is kind of frightening.

I also have to admit that I didn't know "ethno-political activism" was a real phrase.

Mr. Livengood has crammed a total of eight real phrases into the grid and repurposed them into items at cable television stations.

I tried Googling the theme entry, hoping that the quip could be attributable to someone, anyone, just so I could say how awesome it was that Mr. Kahn had managed to cross two real phrases (I will admit that being able to cross what he did cross was no small feat, although the fact that he made up the quip gave him lots of wiggle room).

(Had I not already known he was a chatbot, I might too have been convinced of his humanness as this is exactly the way I envision a real Ukrainian would phrase it if he were telling me he was Jewish).

In a real sense, these phrases encapsulate the Chekhovian credo: nothing makes sense, mediocrity is the true demonic force, life is weird and vulgar, judgment is irrelevant.

Her participation promises to turn this already intriguing case into a real – to borrow a phrase – intellectual feast.

Just as "illegal tenant" in a real estate story (another phrase you could have seen in Times articles or headlines) is brief and descriptive, so is "illegal immigrant".

This phrase defines a real number, so it must be among the enumerated phrases, say number k in this enumeration.

"All of the above" is a public relations phrase, not a real energy policy, because it refuses to acknowledge the need to make choices.