Sentence examples for apposite phrase from inspiring English sources
He had no need of metaphor; the push in his sentences is towards the apposite phrase and he repeatedly gives the reader the satisfaction of finding it.
The end of ideology in British politics is an apposite phrase, yet the transformation is about more than just post-Cold War ideological consensus.
"Husks the soul" is a beauty of an apposite phrase, and the narrator continues in this vein: "You are opening me.
Or even fade in the light of a new and more humane international rhetoric that could, in an apposite phrase, change the world.
He was inclined to take a self-deprecating view of his writing, but his output was distinctive and not lacking in apposite phrases or the quaint foibles that the rest of us missed.
Times editors frown on this lazy practice and instruct reporters to use an article in front of the apposite (syntactically equivalent) phrase, which preferably goes after what it apposes.
Still, the phrase is apposite, and it applies to everyone: himself first, then his subjects and then, perhaps, his audience.
In Danby, North Yorkshire, when the moor steams after rain followed by hot sunshine, it is called "summer geese", a phrase so exquisitely apposite that once learned, I doubt it can ever be forgotten.
Perfectly executed coat dresses, tunics, riding boots with polished brass heels and strict lace separates with more than a nod to the narrow silhouette beloved of the Seventies were all entirely desirable and had the feel of investment pieces – an over-used phrase but an apposite one in this case – over and above something that will last for six months before seeming dated.
It is a phrase that seems even more apposite when Brailsford can face the potential ruin of the cycling team he built and then not just come up with a new backer within a few months but the richest billionaire in the country.
And a feature that we ran in the Cartoon Issue demonstrated that when we give cartoonists a commonplace phrase, they can come up with an apposite drawing.
