Sentence examples for plain phrase from inspiring English sources

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It can stump up a plain phrase ('Simois, ho brother,' cries the river Xanthus).

Then there are the scraps: bones and stubs of films that stick out, and maybe shame their drab or dumb surroundings — "that bit where…," to use the plain phrase that is so often the trigger for honest criticism.

He is a football man, in the wonderfully plain phrase used by Arthur Hopcraft, once of this newspaper, as the title of his classic 1968 survey of the game in its birthplace.

Pop's secular boys' choir is not so removed from the castrato voices of canonical disco acts like the Bee Gees and Sylvester, and Barnes began flirting with derivations of disco in 2005, on the album "The Sunlandic Twins," with songs like "I Was Never Young" (an uncommonly plain phrase for him) and "Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games" (much more like it).

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He wrote, "So there it is in cold print, the plain unadorned phrase that will one day become unarguably true".

And so commenced an 18-month odyssey through "the land of malady," culminating in his death from esophageal cancer last December, when the plain unadorned phrase that had prompted him to contemplate his own mortality became, unarguably, true.

Use a descriptive plain English phrase here, such as 'charcoal drawing'oiloil painting', or 'photograph'photograph

We should also be able to type plain-English phrases like "tomorrow 1pm lunch mtg" or "4/15 730p Dinner with boss," and marvel as it creates the right appointment on the right calendar square at the right time.

K-Dot makes the meaning of the 'To Pimp A Butterfly' phrase plain throughout the album, but this amendment to the title adds a new dimension.

That this feature is intrinsic is plain from the phrases 'by its own nature' and 'in itself'.

Continuing its unyielding support of America's core values, the Tea Party, in a statement released to the press from an unnamed satellite office, has taken action to remove the phrase "fruited plain" from all future performances of America the Beautiful that may be sung by any of its members.

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