Sentence examples for this manner of speaking from inspiring English sources

One division CFO, for instance, always used the first person when referring to budget numbers, as in "I have x dollars," even though it was the organization's money, and ignored repeated requests from other members of the executive group to stop this manner of speaking.

Notice a person's tone of voice, mannerisms, manner of speaking, accent and habits.

Or the Department of Labor, which is nearby? A. The L's you describe refer to the Loesser's department store, which was nearby and is -- this, in a manner of speaking, is what the L's stand for today -- Long Defunct.

He decides to return later, but this time - in a manner of speaking - to take on the Israeli army.

Perhaps, though, one might agree that all this is just a manner of speaking, that a body embalmed and laid out for viewing or a body carted around to various museums for display is more like a statue than it is like the breathing organism belonging to a live human.

This is more than a manner of speaking.

Could happen, in a manner of speaking, this summer in Ogunquit, where "Evita" (July 21-Aug. 21-Aug. 2ys...PAlwaysline" (Aug...Patsyand "Annie" (Aug. 18-30) Cline out the summer.

For one thing, the argument relies on taking a folksy paraphrase as metaphysically revealing; perhaps we would be better off treating this as just a careless manner of speaking.

These and Mrs. McGregor's claim that he has tricked her and "done it a purpose" demonstrate Potter's attention to using dialect and dialogue as a means of defining character – in this instance, of contrasting their manner of speaking with her own in narrating the story.

This procedure constituted, is in one manner of speaking, an in silico bulk analysis.

This man tumbled from the stars – in a manner of speaking – and can tell the world how he did it.