Sentence examples for an outdated phrase from inspiring English sources

"Site specific" is kind of an outdated phrase, but it's about the experience of coming here.

Trial by media is actually an outdated phrase now that there is a mechanism for investigating offences the referee has missed.

Byatt's phrasing is stilted, mock-decorous - "Roland finally, to use an outdated phrase, entered and took possession of all her white coolness that grew warm against him" - but the end has been reached.

Ann Coffey, the Labour MP for Stockport, called for the "outdated" phrase to be removed from 16 pieces of legislation, arguing that its continued use was a barrier to overhauling attitudes that leave thousands of children vulnerable to abuse.

The sound of that outdated phrase I used back there is not just nostalgic, to me it belongs in another era.

It might have meant something in your parents' day, but now it's just another awkward, outdated phrase, like "the bee's knees" or "I'm voting for Nixon".

His settled character and views became part of his performance, outdated phrases deliberately deployed in his articles and conversation.

The fact that women could be tempted to pursue other choices than the limited ones you gave would normally be considered too superfluous to mention, but judging from the outdated phrasing you used it seems necessary on this occasion.Eleni BraatFlorence.

These particular parents had gone against the current fashion and raised theirs with vocabularies that included such quaint outdated phrases as "please" and "thank you".

Although the phrase "Dear Diary" may call to mind an outdated girlhood of the pre-digital days, the adolescent tradition of recording one's every passing thought and emotion in a locked-up journal lives on.

An earlier version used an outdated image.