Sentence examples for phrase illustrates from inspiring English sources

He may have meant the suspects encountered on the battlefield rather than those in the interrogation room - but the phrase illustrates the determination to hit back.

This interpretation is compared with the interpretations of other phrases to identify underlying relations and recursive relationships between the concepts to make sure that a phrase illustrates the most intended meaning.

Then they write phrases illustrating those pictures.

It has become a stock phrase to illustrate the semi-mythic expectation to pull regular all-nighters.

The memoir form is eminently represented in modern times by Sir Osbert Sitwell's polished volumes, presenting a tapestry of recollections that, as has been observed, "tells us little about what it feels like to be in Sir Osbert's skin"—a phrase perfectly illustrating the difference between memoirs and formal autobiography.

After returning to running late in life – Brendan Foster persuaded him to take part in the Great North Run in his 70s – Chataway spoke revealingly, and with a turn of phrase that illustrated why he shone in broadcasting and politics, of what the sport at times represented to him.

Similarly, think in English also shows positional mobility, which is characteristic of a slifting phrase, as illustrated by 28.

After specifying categories and phrases, syntactic structures of various phrases are illustrated based on smaller syntactic categories.

"It looks like they have quickly searched for an Austen phrase and it illustrates my suspicion they chose Austen because they don't get her.

It's too bad, he thought, that in Creole the word for love, renmen, is also the word for like, so that as he told her he loved her he had to embellish it with phrases that illustrated the degree of that love.

The phrase "like a girl" illustrates both sides of that coin.