Sentence examples for longer phrase from inspiring English sources

One longer phrase with a word containing that tough "chet" in the middle was cut.

Certain languages capture in a single word what others can only do in a longer phrase.

The apps mostly translate single words only, so if your query involves a longer phrase, it would take many minutes to complete the task.

It is characterized by extreme obscurity intentionally produced by periphrasis (preference for a longer phrase over a shorter, equally adequate phrase), coinage of new words, and very liberal use of loanwords to express quite ordinary meanings.

So I'm aware status quo has roots in the longer phrase "in statu quo res erant ante bellum" - the state in which things were before the war.

When we look at clear cases in which a single word is synonymous with a less lexicalized and longer phrase, we often find no difference in implicature (e.g., mare versus adult female horse).

Richard Margison was lusty as Radames, but still had to add the allure of longer phrases and tonal variety.

A crystalline shimmer of notes that flickered among the players gradually broadened into longer phrases in Mark Dancigers's "Thaw".

But soon enough they were hurtling through a gantlet of steps and styles: one-legged balances, backspins, pirouettes, turning leaps and longer phrases.

Periphrasis, also called circumlocution, the use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter form of expression; a roundabout or indirect manner of writing or speaking.

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