Sentence examples for is a phrase of from inspiring English sources

"Ibn al-balad" is a phrase of endearment here — literally, a son of the country.

It is such a part of a West Point cadet's consciousness that the expression "Beat Navy" is a phrase of proper address between upper and lower classmen.

Parks is not only a very good novelist indeed, but he has been translating works from Italian for 20-odd years now, so no one is going to doubt his competence as either an Italianist or writer of stylish English ("a delirium of pure power" is a phrase of which to be proud).

Remember when that was a phrase of totalitarian governments?

Sid Griffin: The Paisley Underground was a phrase of Michael Quercio's.

My edition of that book says "bitch kitty" was a phrase of the nineteen-thirties and forties.

There's a phrase of Freud's that might apply here: the bodily ego, he calls it, I think".

"There was a phrase of my youth called the 'mucker pose,' " Mr. Schlesinger said, "and this is part of the mucker pose.

I'll return to this construction in a moment, "the one embraced the other". It's a phrase of reciprocity — one embraced the other — the reciprocity of affections across time.

I was never sure if that was a phrase of her own, or a quote from something, some radio drama, say, or a children's book she'd read to me in the days before memory.

That's a phrase of which teenaged activist Ava Lowery has grasped the full meaning.