Sentence examples for phrase employed from inspiring English sources

Like McCarthy, Mallon possesses a sharp tongue and a gift for the wicked turn of phrase employed on selective occasions.

What was unprecedented about these exchanges was the degree to which cooperation seemed a real possibility rather than a diplomatic phrase employed to mask perennial differences in perennially touchy bilateral relations.

The Alley's name is thought to have been derived from "Clowns, allez!" (French for "go!") — a phrase employed when accidents occur and the clowns are sent to divert the crowd's attention.

He was "a fastball wrapped in a riddle," to use a phrase employed by Larry Tye, author of a new biography, "Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend".

The blog said that he had done so on two occasions, one last year and one last week, and stated (accurately) that "Keep America American" was a phrase employed by the K.K.K. in the 1920s.

At once emotionally precise and emotionally layered, these "not quite stories" evoke a girl's coming of age — her efforts to articulate an identity of her own (not the one her mother would have chosen for her) and intimations that she will eventually go out "into the World," to use a phrase employed in another story, that lies beyond the small-town horizons of her parents.

Having identified a particular acoustic stimulus as linguistic, the system executes a series of deterministic grammatical computations or mappings, resulting in an output representation, which is the semantic representation, or logical form, of the sentence or phrase employed in the utterance.

(Unfortunately, he can't use a phrase employed by an innovative journalist on a panel on the media. The acronym is JFDI-- just fucking do it").