Sentence examples for refer to things from inspiring English sources
"I think in all professions, people like shorthand ways of referring to things and using popular culture references to refer to things.
Traders refer to things as bad boys.
Language allows us to refer to things that are distant in space, or in time.
Shaped by the fanciful side of his imagination — the part of him that can refer to things as "derelicty" — his surroundings at home almost qualify.
Clayton and Clark Rockefeller give us an insight into how proper names manage to refer to things, but also about the assumptions we make about names.
"But all the other words that were borrowed by foreign languages users refer to things of China's past, Mr. Chen said.
Characters refer to things you feel will become relevant later on – needing to find "le chemin" (path) and rejoining "le cercle" (circle).
Galliano often refers to things he sees on the street or at work as "very John Galliano".
A bucket list refers to things someone wants to do before dying, or "kicking the bucket".
"She constantly referred to things that I not only hadn't read but hadn't even heard of," he says.
His ever-shifting verbal imagery referred to things like windows, palaces, pants, ice cream, death, sex, potato salad and dentistry.
