Sentence examples for current phrase from inspiring English sources

It found a "good day to bury" a critical report, to use a current phrase.

No wonder some find their sexuality wandering off into unacceptable (the current phrase is "inappropriate") places.

In the land of abundance, as the current phrase goes, it's all good.

They will become, to use a current phrase, the ultimate long tail, serving a global market of niche customers.

Yet "Plan of Attack" is full of tantalizing hints that "father issues" (in the current phrase) might present a problem.

The first really serious one I heard was Unholy War, where she used this very current phrase that was all over the news, and she'd made it about her own mess and unsolvable problems.

I have no faith that is – in one of the current phrases I hate so much – "fit for purpose".

Europe had required real involvement of judges in their own self-government and the current phrasing of this power might make judicial self-government unconstitutional because the power is assigned to someone else.

The bursts API returns the current phrases that are receiving a burst in attention beyond what would be expected.

We attempted to discover whether local symbols are more acceptable to users as icons and also whether the current phrases used in menus and icon descriptions are clearly understood by the various communities.

Why not have the third choice phrased as a neutral "we need to talk" — for people who might well want to do more talking before making a yes/no decision either way — rather than the current phrasing which sets up an expectation that indecision means 'yes with conditions' (the app's exact phrasing here is: "Yes, but… we need to talk").