Sentence examples for needed a phrase from inspiring English sources

In a few arias with undulant accompaniment patterns he needed a phrase or two to find the groove and get with his singers.

Because United States policy frowns on assassinations, the intelligence community needed a phrase to cover the idea of bombing the general area in which an unfriendly dictator or terrorist is likely to be resident.

We needed a phrase that would allow the pivotal moment to pass smoothly kwithout making me feel compromised or the other person feel rejected.

First you need a phrase.

If this is true, do we still need a phrase that means this?

The days of needing a phrase book on a foreign holiday could soon be over.

We need a new phrase for the current Prime Minister: "advisers advise, ministers dither".

We need a new phrase for this kind of aggressively emotive untruth; though hardly a new human phenomenon, it wields particular power in an age of endlessly recycled outrage.

We need a new phrase – the opposite of the overused "jump the shark" – to describe the moment when a TV series all falls into place; when we realise that we now not only know and understand these characters but are reaching the moment that defines their lives for us.

If you need a catch phrase: we are Google Analytics for the manufacturing industry.

(Aside: I need a new phrase to replace "nobody's business". I feel like I use that every day).