Sentence examples for reference more from inspiring English sources

That is a reference more likely applied to an ambitious Fifth Avenue mansion than to a speculative project.

Several students describe the courses as "easier," a reference more to the method than to the material.

Fertility is represented by several deities, but with explicit reference more often to agriculture there are lots of corncobs than to procreation.

Fertility is represented by several deities, but with explicit reference more often to agriculture — there are lots of corncobs — than to procreation.

Every Chinese reference, more or less, has a mistake: The Great Wall of Debt came out as "Debt That the Great Wall Owes".

Or something — to borrow his own frame of reference — more like one of those overstuffed, career-spanning CD box sets, in which finished, studio-polished work gets tumbled together with demos, alternate versions, remixes, B-sides and stray tracks from obscure tribute albums.

As played by Anthony LaPaglia, Nixon is physically awkward and prone to third-person self-reference (more a Bob Dole tic, actually), but he is also soft-spoken and no more than ordinarily profane.

Or that Tivo is referenced more than Ralph Lauren?

"They weren't literal references, more to set up a flavor," Mr. Savides said.

The fun of "Die Mommie Die!" flows out of its caricatures and camp references more than from the dialogue itself.

Now they are checking references more closely and taking longer to choose from larger pools of applicants.