Sentence examples for ugly phrase from inspiring English sources

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It was always an ugly phrase.

"Disaster tourism" is an ugly phrase, conjuring up images of rubberneckers gawping at others' misfortune.

The much-demonized "civil rights establishment" is daily accused, as the current ugly phrase has it, of crying Selma.

The units initiate their own policies, rather than trying to arbitrate between specialist departments.To their supporters, the purpose of the SEU and PIU is not centralisation but (in the ugly phrase favoured by Mr Blair) "joined-up government".

We decided to count everyone in prison, on probation, or on parole — "under correctional control," as the ugly phrase has it — which grew the "city" to the second largest.

Smith was jeered by some of the crowd after repeating his explanation that the comment about May was a sporting analogy, though he did say it was an "ugly phrase", for which he had apologised.

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She has become, in the movie's ugliest phrase, "highly weaponizable," and its fans could not dream of anything better.

In the months since buying the hammock, I have come to realize that "plus shipping" is one of the ugliest phrases in the English language.

The ugly economic phrase is "value added".

"We could strip every tree off the Sierra, we could burn coal till the sky was black, and we would not so poison the world," he added, as much as if we left our children with that "ugly little phrase".

Ribot, Richards, and Will Bernard set up a nasty three-man Maginot Line, playing curt and ugly guitar phrases.

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