Sentence examples for strange phrasing from inspiring English sources

Despite strong singing, typically intense and full throated with strange phrasing and emphasis, the songs can grow dry and austere.

It was a strange phrasing because the implication was that the process -- like jury duty or taxes -- was completely out of my control.

(And "None of this is familiar to me" is such a strange phrasing and defense, not that that's proof of anything. But it certainly goes out of its way to leave the door open for questions).

10) "This map showed a good agreement... ........ is strange phrasing.

So you find strange phrases like "without haste" in the books because I'm avoiding "ly".

I can't count the number of times I have sat at my computer, opened YouTube and typed a strange phrase into the search box: "knee 1".

"So cold the river": that's the strange phrase uttered by a dying man in Michael Koryta's calculatingly spooky new novel.

So the drummer Ches Smith soloed gesturally through a waltz part, sketching all over the kit, but otherwise nailed the music's strange phrase lengths; Mr. Mitchell played the weird chromatic melodies with gusto, making them strong and meaningful through repetition.

This strange phrase in the dramatic message written by Captain Scott when face to face with death is still the dominating problem in connection with the terrible disaster in the Antarctic.

In layperson's language, this strange phrase means that the only justifiable purpose of handing a business a cheque is to get it to do something it wouldn't otherwise do.

I thought the Chinese wanted my views on the economy, but what they were really after was an explanation of strange phrases in the press, and the frequent use of the expression U-turn.