Sentence examples for rather phrase from inspiring English sources

And her songs: well, they're not exactly songs but rather phrase packets about how everybody already does or soon will want her.

The difference from CFGs is that hierarchical grouping is achieved by directly subordinating words to words (allowing for multiple dependents of a head word), rather than phrases to phrases.

The collection is, to use a rather worn phrase, stunning.

He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor".

When he delivered his fiery speech to Congress in March, declaiming the Iranian regime, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deployed a rather memorable phrase.

One of their famous alumni coined a rather memorable phrase about it not being over till it's over, but it was difficult not to begin looking ahead to 2013 in the wake of a 3-0 series deficit.

And there is Eddie Sauer, whom Grainier had known since they were boys, and "who'd just lost all his summer wages in bawdy environs" — the vague and rather grand phrase "bawdy environs" perfectly capturing a community's discreet disapproval.

I mention that here because, from 1932 ("Las Hurdes," or "Land Without Bread") until 1947, Bunuel found his own hideaway and did next to nothing -- a rather lewd phrase, I always think.

Nigel Pascoe's report - until now confidential - has been leaked to the media, and it contains a rather odd phrase.

He told another TV channel, BFMTV: "I think it was [French film director Michel] Audiard who used the rather rough phrase: the rubbish-ometer [French: deconnometre] is working overtime".

They give meaning and life to that rather academic phrase "change agents".