Sentence examples for applicable phrase from inspiring English sources

He knew less about the tired but still applicable phrase, Same Old Jets.

Do you think it has boiled down and captured the essence of New Yorker cartoon humor, or is it just a widely applicable phrase turned into a nifty trick?

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is another overused, though quite applicable phrase that applies to how IT and management teams think about where to apply limited resources to implement meaningful change.

During attempts to connect a video input for DJ Spooky, the screen kept flashing, "Not Applicable!" That phrase would apply to everything standard, from musical genres to profit-making strategies, at the original Knitting Factory, which opened in February 1987.

I believe the applicable Southern phrase is "a handful of gimme and a mouthful of much obliged".

One of the challenges was to find short generic phrases applicable to all types of patient and setting.

"It is the sensuous contributor to the intellect that makes the difference," Eliot also said of James, and the phrase is applicable to Sebald.

." The last phrase is applicable to the entire version of reality offered by the book, which is certainly unusual and yet "not entirely non-existent".

Never was the old zeroes to heroes phrase more applicable than in the case of Great Britain's track cyclists, who have gone from also-rans to almost total domination in the space of three Olympic cycles, a dozen years.

Britain is not the first country to make "paying with plastic" a phrase as applicable to cash as to credit cards.

My wife and I have been here long enough to understand the vernacular of fire (just as we understand the vernacular of drought and flood and earthquake); we never once feared for our daughter's safety, never once doubted that the human part of the dynamic was (if such a phrase is even applicable) under control.