Sentence examples for as a descriptive phrase from inspiring English sources

This is based on the understanding that the term "church of Christ" is used in the New Testament as a descriptive phrase, indicating that the church belongs to Christ, rather than as a proper name.

This intonation, repeated and repeated like a mantra, becomes hypnotic, and as every reviewer has said, in an unprecedented overuse of a descriptive phrase: it pulls us into a fever dream of sex, violence, and materialism.

He was just using a descriptive phrase to indicate that you looked like something less than human".

Montague proposed the denotation of a descriptive phrase to be a set of properties.

The last sentence of Porphyry's text ties the ontological notion of an individual to a collection of properties, and as a corollary, it can be taken to tie the notion of an individual term to a descriptive phrase.

Each trait is constructed from three items in which the respondent assesses how well a descriptive phrase applies to them (Table 2) using a 7-point Likert scale.

Colons can also be used after a descriptive phrase or explanation to imply that the next piece of information will be the thing being described or explained.

On the contrary, they may coexist in a single (artificial) linguistic form or a single descriptive phrase.

I was trying to come up with a better descriptive phrase than "piece of shit", but that's really the best way to describe it.

So I thought "System D" was a much more descriptive phrase than "informal economy".

Her ability to evoke a scene in a few short descriptive phrases, even within a Victorian narration, moves the story along and keeps the action front and center.