Sentence examples for uses to sum from inspiring English sources

And so they are both struck by the sentence Gibbon uses to sum up the experience of being forbidden to marry a young Swiss woman with whom he has fallen in love: "I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son".

Many simply spend their days "doing timepass", a word that Oxford University geography Professor Craig Jeffrey, who has done research in Meerut, uses to sum up both the numbing tedium of their lives and their sense of being economically detached and politically disengaged.

The 50 best restaurants are chosen by a panel of 1,000 chefs, food writers and gastronomes, but Reyners says the voting process is riven with "conflicts of interest" and "cronyism" – "fishy" is the word she inevitably uses to sum it up.

My friend Jenna has a term she uses to sum up the aesthetic feeling of the 1970s I am beginning to experience on Mad Men.

"Professional" was the single word he used to sum up the relationship between the pair over the years.

"Ethics precedes ontology" (the study of being) is a phrase often used to sum up his stance.

The concept of phased arrays of forces and moments is used to sum the support-generated wave fields.

Generally they were actively unhelpful – "the answer's no, now what's the question?" was how we used to sum them up.

The ASCFNN identifier is used to estimate parameters of the real IP system and the computational controller is used to sum up the outputs of the ASCFNN identifier.

There are many other soundbites they could have used to sum up this game: "Angry Birds meets (old Disney racing game) Pure" and "who needs sleep?" spring to mind.

At a moment in campaigns that politicians typically use to sum up the case for their candidacy, Mrs. Clinton repeatedly returned today to the record of her husband's years as president.