Sentence examples for low phrase from inspiring English sources

Buy this and never be conned again! 3. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755) Johnson had little truck, at least in his dictionary, with the discourse of ordinary people: all fours ("a low game of cards"); crack ("a whore; in low language" and also "a boaster: this is only a low phrase").

Well-suited to the technical capabilities of the lute, they mixed passages in chordal style, running scale passages, and alternation of high and low phrases that suggested the many-voiced texture of polyphonic music.

For example, if the theme of your sonnet is joy, low-energy or gloomy phrases would drag down the mood.

The tactile timbres and careful dynamic shading of his fortepiano lines, and the unusual effects Mr. Wispelwey drew from his period cello (he was able to make low-lying phrase ends sound like distant thunder) made this one of the most magical performances of the festival.

For a mezzo-soprano, her singing of low-lying phrases seemed somewhat breathy and cautious.

Occasional low-lying phrases she takes in a smoky "masculine" chest voice point in the same direction.

These voters communicate their preferences to the rest of the electorate by various cues, low-content phrases and images (warm colors, for instance) to which voters can relate, and these cues determine the outcome of the race.

During stretches of the final song, "Dark Harbor XI," the vocal lines took Ms. Fleming from chesty low-voiced phrases into soaring highs, which she delivered with sensual sound and wistful resignation.

Instead it was, to use a favorite Trump phrase, "low energy".

Anyone who utters the phrase "low risk, high return" deserves close examination.

After I left the doctor's office, still in that post-anesthesia state, I tried to process the phrase "low malignant potential".