Sentence examples for reference to the phrase from inspiring English sources

The song's title is a reference to the phrase "Chasing the beetle" which refers to inhaling the smoke from heated heroin, morphine, or opium that has been placed on a piece of tin-foil.

It was an ironic reference to the phrase used frequently in the 1990s by President Shimon Peres and other advocates of coexistence who argued that if Israel made peace with its neighbors, a more prosperous and enlightened region would bloom.

The post was a reference to the phrase "Winter is Coming" from the television show "Game of Thrones". At a Cabinet meeting Wednesday, Trump displayed a similar poster with the words, "Sanctions are Coming," in reference to tightening U.S. policy toward Iran.

The Steam song was played after each blast, regardless of the score, a reference to the phrase "Kiss it goodbye!" Such long balls could occasion the yanking of a pitcher, but that was pure coincidence and not the intent of the song.

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Or it could be a reference to the phrase "John 1 17" being shown on posterboard signs at televised sports events by Christians.

Those all join a few non-semantic uses that most people know about already: the peach and eggplant emoji rarely refer to produce, for instance; the "100" symbol is, in the words of Vann R. Newkirk II, "a very black in-reference to the phrase 'keeping it 100.' " In January, Quartz traced the rise of the key emoji, which basically denotes a life win — courtesy of DJ Khaled.

A check of public references to the phrase seems to support the city's claim on it.

For the most part, the book does not wear this theme heavily (though there are a few unfortunate references to the phrase "let's roll").

Of course, the government could decide to delete all Internet references to the phrase "grass-mud horse," an easy task for its censorship software.

The play's title is a reference to the French phrase "entre chien et loup," referring to the twilight hour when it's difficult to tell the difference between a friendly dog and a dangerous wolf — and symbolically between comfort and fear.