Sentence examples for phrase picking from inspiring English sources

What follows are some choice candidates in the categories of office talk, a field ripe for phrase picking, and professional parlance, the terminology tossed around by marketing mavens who are in the know.

This phrase picks out how differently and how personally technology becomes part of our lives.

"This is who we are," he said of his redoubtable countrymen, a phrase picked up soon afterwards, like a refrain in a bad sonata, in his now-familiar mantra: "This is who I am".

That detail confirms my suspicion that this was a monitoring job; a phrase picked up, wrenched from context and circulated among supporters eager to give anyone a hard time for being "unfair" to Israel.

This opinion is also made clear in the popular phrase picked up by Rodríguez Pascual (2001, p. 22).

We're beginning to think that the phrases picked for this game are purposely chosen to be confused with something dirty.

"I used to stick it through their bloody legs and say, 'Now pick that out!'" The phrase "pick that out" is familiar to everyone who grew up with football as their BFF, whether they first heard it from a commentator like Clive Tyldesley, or Roy Race as he provided, via the medium of the speech bubble, a simultaneous commentary on his own inimitable heroism.

Ms. Hagner was at her best in Mozart's Sonata in B flat, especially in the rich color of her playing and in how she would have a phrase pick up rhythmic energy at each point in a run of short notes.

One appeared to be that I had used the forbidden phrase "pick a link" on my web site.

You'll be dealing with different languages, so learning a few phrases or picking up a slim phrase book wouldn't hurt, especially if you're visiting more out-of-the-way spots.

You're better off scrolling through the phrase list, picking what you want and pressing the "say" button.