Sentence examples for phrase refers from inspiring English sources

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The appositive phrase refers to Miami Beach, but we've connected it to "tourists".

The Latin phrase refers to a scene depicted by many artists, including Rubens and Caravaggio.

The phrase refers to the traditional practice of women tying their hair in a bun when they marry.

The phrase refers to a situation in which someone who isn't in a position to be mad unfurls fury.

The phrase refers to the two poles, depression and mania, which people move between in their lives.

The phrase refers to the legendary booby-trapped brownstone in Harlem where the brothers Homer and Langley Collyer were found dead in 1947.

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Mr. Barsky vigorously denied that the phrase referred to the football stadium.

Growing up alongside the Missouri-Kansas border, I always understood that the phrase referred only to wheat and I said as much in a recent blog post.

"Dereliction of duty" was Gov. Chris Christie's apt phrase, referring to the failure to vote on promised aid for hurricane relief.

When they referred last year to Iran's entering a "zone of immunity," Israeli officials said the phrase referred to the moment when the facility would be complete, and immune from attack by Israeli forces.

Iran has dismissed the agency's questions about "possible military dimensions" of its program — a diplomatic phrase referring to evidence the country sought to build nuclear warheads — by saying that it was fabricated by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Israeli Mossad.

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