Sentence examples for defining the phrase from inspiring English sources

Asked over lunch to describe a word whose definition had been giving him trouble, Mr. Sheidlower recounted the difficulty he was having defining the phrase "bitch-slap".

According to certain ways of defining the phrase, what it means for a relation to be internal is that it is a relation that its relata could not fail to have; an external relation is one its relata could possibly not have.

The law creating the task force does not define the phrase.

It is the law of averages, at least the way I define the phrase.

Bennett defined the phrase to a pro-Israel crowd in Washington as "seeing things for what they truly are.

He replied that it must be "in our vital national interests," and he went on to define the phrase.

BELIEVE it or not, Christopher Walken, whose screen persona usually defines the phrase unhinged wacko, is being compared lately to Fred Astaire.

For the moment, though, that is enough to be going on with, and there is always something nice about him; he defined the phrase 'the gaiety of nations'.

Shortly before noon on Tuesday, they asked the judge to define the phrase "without her knowledge," which appears in Cosby's charges.

("Let me tell you, baby," Gleason writes, "approaching the huge concrete and steel structure of San Quentin, just approaching it defines the phrase bad vibes").

Somehow the man who, in the Nineties, came to define the phrase 'TV chef', the one with the hair gel and the grin and the irritating turn of phrase, has in this decade emerged as the paterfamilias, the guy who really knows what he's doing.