Sentence examples for phrase missing from inspiring English sources

He left a blank where the Italian term for "fuck yourselves" was the obvious phrase missing.

In a piece this morning on the leverage we have with Karzai, Helene Cooper writes that there's a phrase missing from Obama's injunctions to Karzai: "an 'or else.' " We have put ourselves in the position of relying on the good will of Karzai, and of the warlords he has brought into his government, like Muhammad Fahim General Abdul Rashid Dostum.

With the given context, the phrase "missing the most important customer needs and ignoring the broader influences that determine their long-term success" were seemed addressed by Saudi women social enterprises in the conduct of their social entrepreneurship activities.

The phrase missing link has been used extensively in popular writings on human evolution to refer to a perceived gap in the hominid evolutionary record.

Then as he segued into economics, Limbaugh crudely directed the phrase "missing link" toward President Obama, an overtly racist association lost on zero listeners.

Fibbage gives you a sentence with a word or phrase missing, and it's up to the players to fill it in with a lie that they hope will fool the other players into thinking it's the truth.

In English, this clumsy phrase misses a crucial nuance: "l'hospice" also means an old folks' home, an idea more relevant to Adam's fears.

Songs like "Nasty" and "What Have You Done for Me Lately?" presented a brash, sexually confident young woman singing over big, blocky dance beats that split the difference between pop and R. & B. (Pop-culture fans will remember 1986 as the year that the phrase "Miss Jackson, if you're nasty" entered the lexicon).

This will help you catch awkward phrases and missing or incorrect words.

If one misinterprets this phrase, one misses the very point of Vonnegut's masterpiece.

I'd like to say I'm over it, but as I type the phrase "two missed field goals," I do so through gritted teeth.