Sentence examples for refer in a from inspiring English sources
His paintings – let's call them that – refer in a visceral, unmistakable way to the human body, but have nothing in common with figurative art.
All this led the Queen to refer in a speech to her "annus horribilis," which is as close as the current British monarch gets to confessional mode.
Dollar diplomacy has come to refer in a disparaging way to the heedless manipulation of foreign affairs for strictly monetary ends.
I was a little surprised to receive a complaint from one reader who felt it was "totally unnecessary" to refer in a headline to Poppi having been "sexually abused" by her father.
The king has not directly addressed the question of whether Delphine Boël is his daughter, though he did refer in a 1999 speech — made soon after the publication of Mr. Daneels's book — to a 1960s "crisis" in his marriage.
The PM asked him to have a "low key" word with the Queen's private secretary, Sir Michael Adeane, and "suggest that any subject on which the Prince became interested or any subject on which he wished to refer in a speech he should be encouraged to secure briefing from the appropriate Minister".
"The epsilon referred in a cutesy way to this error measurement," he says.
He refers, in a terse, cryptic passage, to his own unhappy experience as a litigant.
He even refers, in a kingly way, to "my Jesuit", "my alchemist", "my mathematician".
One British diplomat referred in a memo to the islanders as "a few Tarzans or Men Fridays".
Other times, he intellectualizes it, referring in a recent interview to "the hostile takeover of journalism by deconstructionism.
