Sentence examples for phrase applies from inspiring English sources
That hackneyed phrase applies: he was a gentleman and a scholar".
The phrase applies just as well to the founding of a museum like the one in whose birth I am involved, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem.
No doubt the phrase applies to a couple: a meticulous self-examination delivered (and carefully revised) by Saul Bellow Robert Stonee's protracted chewing of his writer's cud.
The team and the center are financially controlled — if that phrase applies in Brooklyn — by the Cleveland-born developer Bruce C. Ratner and Mikhail Prokhorov, the Russian billionaire and Brooklyn enthusiast.
To see how that phrase applies to the pros and cons of bailing out those banks, speculators and homeowners embroiled in the subprime mortgage mess — a surefire campaign issue — consult today's front pages.
The phrase applies literally to one of the characters in Stephen Amidon's quietly brilliant fourth novel, but in the wealthy Connecticut town of Totten Crossing, everyone is all too aware of his or her net worth, and understands that what you have is the only measure of your success or failure.
Just do not try criticizing the state if you are from "off," the phrase applied to anyone who was not born and raised here.
In the catalog foreword, Pierre Rosenberg, a Boucher scholar as well as director of the Louvre, takes note of a suggestive phrase applied to a Boucher contemporary by the painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze: "He suffered from a priapism of the pencil".
Both the sequin-studded blob of Future Systems' Selfridges store and the disastrous latticework box of Make's luxury mixed-use Cube show that "jewel-like" is not a phrase applied easily to big buildings.
Only twenty years later, at the start of my trip through the lagoon, did I learn that it was a phrase applied to misfits, and, among gondoliers, it was double-edged in its affections.
"Damaged goods" was an interesting phrase, applied to frayed knits, darned and embroidered with scribbled motifs, to fringes swaying like unravelling fabric at the hem of dresses or randomly spray-painted dresses.
