Sentence examples for completed the phrase from inspiring English sources

At the end, she let her voice swell to a tremendous sustained note on the word Felsen — "rock" — apparently pushing her voice to the limit; then, drawing on an inexhaustible reserve of power, she completed the phrase with undiminished force.

Living fast and hard was indeed a part of the mandate, and in some cases it was the art of the artless, but bad luck is what completed the phrase, and hardly anybody left a good-looking corpse.

In his review of Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" (Nov. 27), Jim Holt says of the fast, intuitive type of thought, "It is System 1 that detects hostility in a voice and effortlessly completes the phrase 'bread and...'.. " But its completion isn't as automatic as Holt supposes.

Or try to complete the phrase: "The forms of.... are enclosed".

And what would be the "hostile" way of completing the phrase?

The audience completes the phrase "Jings, crivens, help ma boab!" without even being asked.

When asked to complete the phrase "the Premier League is the _____ league in the world," Lineker replied: "Richest".

Type "Bermuda tax" into Google and the search engine's high-tech algorithm completes the phrase with a number of suggestions, including, "haven".

And my desk mate, her slanted black eyes gleaming through pink plastic glasses, will complete the phrase: "Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb".

French lessons come in handy, too, to complete the phrase Vive "LE ROI" and to figure out, in 10 Down, that the month of juillet comes in the the season of ETE.

As she completes the phrase, her voice leaps girlishly into her upper register, and it's as if she were gripping your arm so firmly that you could feel her nails dig into your skin.