Sentence examples for phrase describing from inspiring English sources

(In this case, the long and awkward appositive phrase describing Zuckerman adds to the confusion).

Write down a phrase describing how you could make an impact.

The mosaic will depict the city, and is titled "The Gorgeous Mosaic," after Mayor Dinkins' phrase describing the city's ethnic groups.

We don't mean that the poll definitely has an error of three percentage points (with the hyphenated phrase describing what kind of error).

Jane Austen's best-known phrase describing her own writing appears in a letter to her nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, an aspiring novelist and student at Winchester College.

Top management today, and for the foreseeable future is living in an era of Creative Destruction, Joseph Schumpeter's prescient phrase describing the essential dynamics of modern economies.

Right now, that phrase describes John McCain.

But to these men, the phrase described something else.

The phrase describes a prominent rugby team in New Zealand, not the national air force.

The construction works in the first sentence, because the introductory phrase describes "I," which follows immediately.

Yet in the expression without fail, they accept the noun fail exactly as the phrase describes.