Sentence examples for supplying words from inspiring English sources

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It's our need to fill up space with meaning that makes us rush into verbal voids, supplying words that have not yet been given meaning with meanings that are always seeking new words.

He was, along with Hammerstein, the most chameleonesque of lyricists, supplying words to Ziggy Elman's klezmer-inflected "And the Angels Sing" as well as to an oom-pah German ditty from 1902 that in his hands became a No. 1 hit, "Glow Worm," in 1952.

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Writing to Atticus, he says of them, "They are transcripts; I simply supply words, and I've plenty of those".

Mr. Case wrote out suggestion, supposing the writer would supply words in place of "dummy words he had used.

Kendrick Lamar traded the self-questioning of his recordings for the shouting and cheerleading of live hip-hop; the audience happily supplied words whenever he gave them a chance.

The audience sings along, with huge television screens supplying the words, karaoke style.

"You could feel them touching you in the groin area?" Judge Scheindlin asked, seeking clarification and supplying the words.

And so a comic strip entitled "American Splendor" was born, with Crumb as the draftsman and Harvey supplying the words.

It's as if a politically themed Pandora has been supplying the words and phrases most likely to please each constituency.

Funds were also spotty until the society's collection of church music, with arrangements supplying new words to familiar melodies, became a bestseller in the 1820s.

In Guatemala, they observe, there is a 12,000-seat church with a heliport and giant baptism pool, built at the end of a road called Burger King Drive; and in South Korea there is an 830,000-member church (growing "by 3,000 a month") with 12 choirs, 3 orchestras and "huge television screens supplying the words" to hymns "karaoke-style".

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