Sentence examples for applying that word from inspiring English sources

Arrogantly applying that word only to minor party candidates is to treat them as second-class citizens and set them up as scapegoats in close elections.

"Applying that word to something far less valuable is going to be extremely disruptive to creators.

With no mark over the first o, the word means "food, meat, or the place in the belly where it goes"; with a mark over the first syllable, however, the meaning becomes "limb, member, portion," which took Greek grammarians into using kolon for independent clauses and then applying that word to the mark between some clauses.

(NOAA believes the ancient word ilioholoikauaua, "dog running in rough water," refers to the seal, though that has been resisted; at one public forum, a man called applying that word to monk seals a "defamation of my language and my culture").

Of late, he has applied that word to those who believed that, since New Yorkers had voted twice in the 1990s to impose a two-term limit on most elected officials, the voters should have been asked once more if they had perhaps changed their minds.

Young: I tend to apply that word to myself.

He's the only person I know whom I'd apply that word to".

And what can appropriate possibly mean to a world that last applied that word to the wearing of garden party hats after Labor Day?

But for sheer theatricality, if one can apply that word to the cinema without insulting it, Alien is difficult to beat – even without that substance which might just have put it up there with the great movies of the genre.

That might be a description of Auerbach's own method, too, his indefatigable efforts to fuse his subjective sense of a street or a figure with the thing itself; he says he has grown to love Constable for his "doggedness" and likes to apply that word to his own painting.

Well, the younger one scaled the Tikal temples as if claiming them, and has constructed his own miniature version, while his brother, taking a break from beguiling the always enthusiastic Guatemalans with his card tricks, applied that useful teenage word "interesting" to Tikal, and indeed the whole trip.