Sentence examples for phrase dates from inspiring English sources

This phrase dates back to times when notes could be swapped for gold.

According to a Navy history Web site, this phrase dates to the 16th century, when a lamp was stoked near the ship's galley to draw tobacco users away from where gunpowder was stored.

The phrase dates back at least to 1886, and the writer Joel Garreau counts "at least six major, widely hailed, New Souths since Lee's surrender to Grant, not to mention the minor, trial-balloon, New Souths that the sad surplus of New Southern journalists float from time to time (everybody's got to eat)." But repetition does not make a label false.

Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan's district attorney, informs me that the phrase dates back to the mid-70's, when he and the TV reporter Gabe Pressman often clashed over the interests of the press and the public versus the rights of the accused.

The phrase dates back to World War I, when American pilots, engaged in dogfights, would promise to cover each other's six.

The woman pulls up Bing on her smartphone and searches the phrase "dating an actor".

It was an old movie-industry phrase, dating back to the mid-twentieth century, which designated the industry's boundaries in Los Angeles.

The authoritarian government of this former Soviet republic has branded the Vilkins "enemies of the people," a phrase dating from Stalin-era purges, for taking part in protests over the widespread fraud they suspected in the re-election of the president.

The phrase dated back to the earliest days of the incident, Group Captain Arthur having written it at the top of an aide-mémoire.

I don't speak "failed pick-up artist," but I'm pretty sure I have never heard any human being in Toronto, or elsewhere, use the phrase "date up".

I don't speak "failed pick-up artist" but I'm pretty sure I have never heard any human being in Toronto, or elsewhere, use the phrase "date up" But fine, let's just presume you spoke like a normal, non-mouthbreathing human being and let's analyze your complaint that it's difficult to ask a woman out on a date in Toronto even though that's false.