Sentence examples for phrase to define from inspiring English sources

Brazil's team coach had proclaimed that 'the sixth win was coming' but instead of extinguishing the Maracanazzo, the ghost of their 1950 final defeat by Uruguay, their semi-final humiliation instead left their fans with a new phrase to define another unwanted humiliation - the Mineiratzen.

Once you have a firm sense of what your business will be like and what it will do, you'll be better able to find the perfect word or phrase to define it.

But no resonant phrase emerged to define yesterday's tragedy the way Roosevelt's radio-age words defined the World War II attack.

His new theme, "a reformer with results," allowed him to focus more sharply on his Texas record, even if the phrase seemed to define him in terms of, and in response to, Mr. McCain.

Seconds later, there comes a version of the words attributed to passenger Todd Beamer - the phrase that came to define the attempt to defeat the hijackers: "Roll it".

IN the past few years, specialists in human development have coined the phrase "emerging adulthood" to define the years roughly between the ages of 18 and 26 as a new stage of instability and identity exploration worthy of its own study.

More than nine million people watched Mr Brown try to woo Mr Clegg by repeatedly declaring "I agree with Nick" - the phrase that came to define the opening of the 2010 campaign.

This study revealed that the most commonly-used phrase among women to define and explain mental health problems was "problems of the mind" but only physical symptoms were defined as an illness.

What is commonly referred to as autoimmunity was first cited at the turn of the 20th century by Paul Ehrlich, who used the phrase 'horror autotoxicus' to define the processes in which the immune system attacks self.

At the height of the real estate boom, the broker Michael Shvo brashly coined the phrase "Let's Shvo" to define his style of marketing.

Israel's defense minister, Ehud Barak, coined the phrase "zone of immunity" to define the circumstances under which Israel would judge it could no longer hold off from an attack because Iran's effort to produce a bomb would be invulnerable to any strike.