Sentence examples for pretty phrase from inspiring English sources

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EVEN by the standards of the European Commission, "sub-optimal market functioning" is not a pretty phrase.

She prefers nouns and verbs to crowded flights of lyrical adjectives and adverbs, and she doesn't dally excessively over a pretty phrase.

Bloodlust isn't a pretty phrase, but it's difficult to find another to apply to the decadent modern hunters of our age.

Even on the rare occasions when they turn a pretty phrase or conjure a bleak insight into the loneliness or hardship of life, their feet are always on the ground.

"Fragile and reversible" is a pretty phrase: it might be used to describe a ballerina's sequence of steps, and Petraeus and other generals have used it about Iraq, too.

The title of Joy Williams' latest short story collection ― Ninety-Nine Stofies of God ― is not just a pretty phrase.

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I try and write down everything, hoarding images and fragments of pretty phrases.

No prim, pretty phrasing or its counterpart, show-off nose-tweaking.

"Worldwide injunction" is a pretty compelling phrase.

By Amy Davidson Sorkin October 12, 2010 "Worldwide injunction" is a pretty compelling phrase.

"Getting 'gobbled up' by a hole is a pretty common phrase used to describe the plight of a struggling golfer.

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