Sentence examples for using the phrase to from inspiring English sources

The same happened last season after Peter Herbert, the head of the Society of Black Lawyers, threatened to report anyone using the phrase to the police.

California's governor, Jerry Brown, who received a Jesuit education and likes to flaunt his classical learning, has of late been using the phrase to describe a war of all against all in the Golden State.

That brings me to a second problem: whenever some catchphrase becomes part of what Very Serious People say because it sounds Serious, it's time to stop using the phrase, to force the VSPs to talk about what they really mean.

Lena Aburdene Derhally, who specialises in treating anxiety and relationship troubles, was prompted to speak out after witnessing a father using the phrase to berate his young son, who was having a tantrum while visiting a zoo.

The phrase has already been incorporated into the conference backdrop and John Denham, Ed Miliband's parliamentary aide, told the World at One that frontbenchers would be using the phrase to describe the party "repeatedly over the months and years to come".

Before that, the O.E.D., in its exhaustive history of do, cites Charles Dickens and other 19th-century writers using the phrase "to do the [adjective like "grand" or "lazy"] thing"; then came a burst of usage in the 1990s of the "I don't do" phrasal template followed by the likes of "nuance" or "small talk" or "ticktock".

Sarah Palin used the phrase to campaign for limited government.

The union used the phrase to indicate that its campaign had received the company's attention.

The Senate Democratic leader, Tom Daschle, used the phrase to describe his Republican counterpart, Trent Lott.

They use the phrase to make all kinds of specious arguments.

The buyer uses the phrase to indicate the span of time between placing and receiving the order.