Sentence examples for ordinary phrase from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the strangest member of the last category, the purely harmonious, is the otherwise ordinary phrase cellar door.

He has an indistinct, meager notion in his head that he thinks might work for a short poem: a few unconnected words or an ordinary phrase that he's suddenly realized is quite weird.

He has an indistinct, meagre notion in his head that he thinks might work for a short poem: a few unconnected words detritus of his day or an ordinary phrase that he's suddenly realized is quite weird ("cut the mustard," for instance what does it mean to cut mustard, and why is it only ever used in the negative?).

Possibly construction grammars (e.g., Goldberg 2003), which emphasize the coupling between the entrenched patterns of language (including ordinary phrase structure, clichés, and idioms) and their meanings and discourse function, will provide a conceptual basis for building statistical models of language that are sufficiently accurate to enable more nearly human-like parsing accuracy.

Cranmer's prayers use ordinary phrases and familiar Biblical similes.

Coward could declare, "To me, the essence of good comedy writing is that perfectly ordinary phrases such as 'Just fancy!' should, by virtue of their context, achieve greater laughs than the most literate epigrams".

Instead, it was alleged to be filled with "vulgar, ordinary phrases, which intend to provoke sexual desires by way of representing deviant, lesbian, unnatural, even animal-related sexual relationships through the use of children, and with a coarse language" and have "no plot whatsoever".

These are automatically induced from an aligned corpus, and the lowest hierarchical layer corresponds to phrase-to-phrase translation rules like those in ordinary phrase-based translation.

His voice carries its special mix of ordinary colloquial phrasing ("God knows... ain't... I mean... ..) and singular word-play ("inklings... inkles").

With its mix of ordinary colloquial phrasing and singular wordplay, the result is a peculiar, witty meeting of Wordsworthian sentiment and teenage American demotic, and a voice that is very much Vernon's own.

That was why dead Millie Dowler's phone was hacked (oh yes, it was), why Sienna Miller was chased down a dark road by snappers, why the love lives of not-so-talented actors and useless footballers were stalked, snouts and tarts paid off, and the private lives of ordinary people – humbug phrase – noisily ruined for a bit of fun.