Sentence examples for pet phrases from inspiring English sources

He gently mocked the Fed's pet phrases.

He was awe-inspiring or, to use one of his pet phrases, "mind-boggling".

One of Sampson's pet phrases – and he does rather like a cliche – is "we're in a good place".

She sings all the time, usually current pop hits, and has a silly side, manifest in her pet phrases.

To be sure, gay rights activists, environmentalists and union leaders are laboring behind the scenes to insert pet phrases into Mr. Cherny's draft.

Ye gods, to borrow one of his pet phrases, the gregarious Bisher saw more new coats slipped on than a tailor.

In other words, you wind up adopting a pet phrase.

Popovich has a pet phrase, adopted from Jacob Riis's stonecutter analogy.

Ms. Falco talked about the "meta-feeling," a pet phrase of one of their old professors.

But that's that, and this is this" — a pet phrase of hers, apparently.

"Amar'e's a big piece to what we do," Woodson insisted again Friday, invoking his pet phrase.