Sentence examples for nonsensical phrase from inspiring English sources

In a breathtakingly arrogant and nonsensical phrase, Nicholas wrote: "The West Indies are short of brains".

Well, his use of such a nonsensical phrase does show that he's mastering the basics of sports journalism.

And here was a challenge among some reporters to slip a deliciously nonsensical phrase — "As if by the wave of an occult hand" — into the newspaper.

The stilted conversations that have followed these tragedies have largely focussed on the meaning and implications of the nonsensical phrase "racial profiling".

That pathway is of course tiki-taka: the nonsensical phrase that has come to mean short passing, patience and possession above all else.

"TO INFINITY and beyond!" Buzz Lightyear's memorable if nonsensical phrase has been echoing around playgrounds ever since Pixar introduced the space ranger to the world in "Toy Story" in 1995.

Instead of proper sign language, he translated Obama's speech using made-up gestures and nonsensical phrases like "prawn", "rocking horse" and "hand me the scissors".

Bennett's vocals were first recorded for ScanSoft in 2005, where she was told to record nonsensical phrases, the snippets were then synthesised and eventually made their way on to the GPS and telephone systems.

Despite his edict of silence, he spent most of the evening trading jokes with Five, yelling nonsensical phrases ("Flurk! Flurk! Flurk!") into my tape recorder, making bets centered on Five's bad Spanish, and drinking beer.

In The Night Garden From the makers of Teletubbies, Night Garden seems not only to share their liking for nonsensical phrases but also their ability to hypnotise the under-fours.

My father came up with it — one of his many nonsensical phrases — when we were small, and he has used it ever since to address any or all of his four children, indiscriminately.