Sentence examples for expression referring to from inspiring English sources
He was using a well-known army expression, referring to a soldier who throws himself over barbed wire so that others can walk over him to safety.
Published in 2011 in Norway as Hel Ved (Solid Wood, an expression referring to a person's good character), the book has sold 300,000 copies internationally, and is translated into 10 languages.
'Kabaad se jugaad' is a Hindi slang expression, referring to the conversion of waste (kabaad) into something useful and beautiful.
One paramilitary announced that a vote for independence would result in a "sea of fire", an expression referring to the Bandung Sea of Fire during Indonesia's own war of independence from the Dutch.
At the time of its founding it was called "The Royal Normal College and Academy for the Blind", the word Normal being an American expression referring to teacher training offered by the college, with Campbell recruiting many of his teaching staff from the United States.
'Low expression' refers to proteins expressed at relatively low levels.
The sense of an expression, roughly speaking, is not the thing the expression refers to but the way in which it refers to that thing.
The expression refers to speculation in general, but most particularly to land speculation and to Tokyo, where land prices have been the most outrageously exorbitant in the country.
In the glossy magazines, the expression refers to celebrities whose fame and whose children's names and faces have managed to cross the popularity divide of the Atlantic Ocean.
