Sentence examples for phrase form from inspiring English sources

This is an example, in phrase form, of a "Janus word" -- a term that is its own antonym.

The first statement is not brilliantly-worded, just repeating a phrase form the abstract that becomes quite ambiguous when taken out of its original context.

When stuck for a phrase, form or image, they raid their stores of Farsi, Arabic, Nepalese or turn to Rumi, Mahmoud Darwish, Ocean Vuong.

Searching and indexing can be primitive: a search for "cake" in the 50-recipe Cook's Illustrated e-book gets unwanted results like pancakes and the phrase "form the mixture into cakes".

BOTTOM LINE The phrase "form over function" is particularly apt here — the hotel seemed more appropriate as a place for playful photo shoots than as a place to stay.

Louis Sullivan, the architect, coined the phrase "form follows function".

They can be located by searching in CLIO for the phrase "Forms part of the Lama Anagarika Govinda Papers". 1971 printing by Samuel Weiser, Inc., New York.

A phrase formed in his mind — this is so unlike me — that he would find himself repeating throughout the night, until the moment that he became his own opposite.

He was a toast of the uptown art world, where the "imported surrealists," in Clement Greenberg's contemptuous phrase, formed a deluxe avant-garde remote from that of the tatterdemalion American painters.

For the epistemic reading of 9a-b, the temporal phrase yesterday does not modify might; rather, it modifies the verb phrase formed a band.

For 11b, yesterday modifies the verb phrase formed a band, and serves to give the topic time for the associated event.