Sentence examples for phrase to apply from inspiring English sources

I will twist that soothing phrase to apply to the odds of losing to the Mets.

If "turned on" sounds like an anachronistic phrase to apply to an 18th-century artist, consider the paintings.

The corresponding semantic rule requires the denotation of the Noun Phrase to be applied to the denotation of the Intransitive Verb.

One editor has passed the word that his copy desk "has reached a consensus" that writers ought to eschew "this way over used and maddeningly vague phrase which only seems to apply to terrorists".

In your cover letter, phrases like "I wish to apply for... .. are just as dull.

However, the judge warned that "because of its phrasing, it is easy to apply the Rule in an unconstitutional manner".

In a tearful tribute, Hamel's niece, Jessica Delporte, added: "After Charlie Hebdo I posted this phrase [on social media] 'Oh my God, let's keep our tolerance and discernment', never thinking I would have to apply that phrase to myself with so much force and conviction".

It is essential that the independence of the justice system be maintained, for otherwise - to apply a phrase the judges themselves used - "the rule of law is nothing".

It's not much of a stretch to apply that phrase to our own gun-crazed society or to see her description of the macho Romans lurking in the XFL's slogan, "Real Men.

It's trendy to apply the phrase to women who make a difference, like strong mothers, C-suite females, altruists with a cause and women who have beaten the odds.

He finds himself in a no-man's-land where that well-honed phrase "the enemy within" appears to apply both to friend and foe.