Sentence examples for modern phrase from inspiring English sources
The revealer of TRIGGER / WARNING (26D/25D) — using this modern phrase in an unexpected way — was icing on the cake.
No doubt he was trying to "close down from the front," to use the modern phrase for applying pressure all over the field.
(The 19th-century singular term "woman's rights," as opposed to the modern phrase "women's rights," reflected an undifferentiated concept of white middle-class womanhood).
Those were the days when "on message" seemed a new and modern phrase, rather than standard vocab for even a Wernham Hogg temp.
David Boon is credited with coining the modern phrase that the top three are the "engine room" of the Australian batting order.
If the opponent has the ball, you hunt it down and, in that modern phrase much seen and heard at the World Cup in June and July, you "squeeze the space".
In the 1991 book "The Phrase That Launched 1,000 Ships," Nigel Rees does yeoman service to the Phrasedick Brigade, as the etymological Hawkshaws of modern phrases call themselves.
The lights came up slowly on Allen, who casually marked a dabke-ish grapevine phrase, before being joined by the other dancers, some of whom eventually linked up with Allen, arms over shoulders; others did expansive modern phrases nearby, in counterpoint.
Plymouth Sound was, to use modern phrasing, rammed.
It's melodic and rhythmic and has some modern phrasing.
The Beethoven was more spirited now, and the choreography included full-bodied balletic-modern phrases that showed off the company's impressive technique (multiple pirouettes, a double tour en l'air); Lightfoot and León also mixed in quirkier, baser movements, as in a unison travelling phrase highlighted by a strange crabbed walk with caved-in shoulders, or in a female duet full of jerky motion.
