Sentence examples for attaching the phrase from inspiring English sources
"Yes we can" had never been much more than a motivational vitamin, too close for comfort to Bob the Builder's "Yes he can!" But by attaching the phrase to the past tense, to achieved history, Obama stripped it of its bright futurity and invested it with a measure of uncertainty, as if intoning both "Yes we did" and an implied "Yes we may".
With Cleaver's name attached, the phrase appeared on banners, buttons and picket signs at demonstrations well into the 1970s, and was picked up by other radical leftist leaders.
Since 1989, when her play "The Heidi Chronicles" won a handful of major awards, including the Tony, people who introduce her at benefits, on TV talk shows, and at speaking engagements have attached the phrase "Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright" to her as predictably and proudly as wedding guests attach tin cans to the newlyweds' getaway car.
To the (now discredited) claim that Iraq was developing its ability to deliver biological weapons was attached the dread phrase, "including potentially against the US homeland".Much of the intelligence used in the British dossier was also denuded of important qualifiers.
A certain facetiousness might seem to attach to the phrase "scholar of dirty jokes".
Yesterday we were faced with one of those odd juxtapositions produced by modern sports: the words "world peace" attached to the phrase "ejected for throwing a vicious elbow".
A banner attached to a lamppost on West 53rd Street outside the Museum of Modern Art has the word "REBELLION" in capital letters overlapping the MoMA logo, and a dotted line attached to the phrase "starts here".
With the adjective "senior" attached and the phrase capitalized, adviser takes on a commanding aura; however, if a modifier other than "political" is used — such as "media," "internet," or "ethnic outreach" — the adviser's expertise is circumscribed and role diminished.
The suspicion of alien identity attached to the phrase has already moved beyond the realm of rhetoric to affect the lives of American children: some babies born in Texas have had a hard time getting birth certificates, because their parents don't have proper identification.
