Sentence examples for right phrase for from inspiring English sources

It always struck me as the right phrase for the wrong target.

And frankly," he said, pondering the right phrase for a long time, "he is something to laugh at".

"Unflinching incomprehension" seems the right phrase for the way Americans watched the events of 9/11, and also for our country's simplistic, war-justifying stance toward complicated geopolitics.

Another Australian, the country's legendary cricket captain Steve Waugh, had the right phrase for what Centre Court had witnessed: mental disintegration.

"The intimate fantastic" seemed just the right phrase for the feeling evoked in me by Bulatov's dazed wish to go fishing.

He invites the idea by affecting, I think, a creepy prurience while he searches for the right phrase for his next indelicacy – before producing not the careful euphemism we expected, but a carefully focused money shot.

"There were a lot of people not only in this church, but in churches that we fellowship with, that were... ...... he searched for the right phrase, "of good size".

"Am I saying that word right?" would be a good phrase for him to memorize.

'Under control' is not a good phrase for the situation right now," he says.

Mr Fyodorov used to lament the fact that even he could not find the right phrase in Russian for "corporate governance".

"This crowd," he gestured, searching for the right phrase in English before settling for an exponential understatement.