Sentence examples for phrasing before from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ma spun out the melody of the tender first movement with eloquent phrasing before plunging into the fiery Allegro.

Consequently, Orpheus developed a system it calls "the core" in which the executive committee chooses a concertmaster, and each instrumental section a representative, for every piece; this group works through questions of interpretation and phrasing before the orchestra's first full rehearsal... Writer describes rehearsal for a Carnegie Hall concert in May.

Mr. Romney has used the "small things" phrase before, too.

No one has used that phrase before, right?

"I had not heard that phrase before," Mr. McCain said.

I'd never heard that phrase before and honestly didn't know what it meant.

As to Mr. Bush's mention of the millennium goals, he said, "As far as I know, the president has never uttered that phrase before".

It was almost as if we had never heard the phrase before, it suddenly seemed so unfamiliar, so unclear, so wrong.

My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three … I have sung the praises of this phrase before, as the greatest parenthetical aside in literature.

In a rapid damage limitation operation, Cameron's spin doctors said he had used the phrase before, as leader of the opposition, in remarks aimed either at Gordon Brown or David Miliband.

"I just caught a wild Pidgey on Oxford Street" might not be something you have heard before, but if Pokémon Go continues its quest to take over the world, it may become a familiar turn of phrase before long.