Sentence examples for phrase in a from inspiring English sources

The name was catchy and appropriate — bringing to mind the phrase "in a pinch".

Was a phrase in a second reading passage "speculative" or "ironic" or "defensive"?

Nobody could turn a phrase in a way that might reach unpolitical people as Charles could.

In 1995, CBS dismissed him after he used a racially charged phrase in a column.

(I actually saw that phrase in a dismissive review of Adams's opera).

I ran across the phrase in a book of fairy tales, and it stayed with me.

Writer lists uses of the phrase in a number of apt ways.

"EVER closer union" is not just an aspiration or a phrase in a European treaty.

We found her, to use her own phrase, "in an improved but restless state".

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I have heard people use this phrase in an almost contentious way.