Sentence examples for well-turned phrase from inspiring English sources
"It smells like Amsterdam" is a well-turned phrase.
Even a simple online search can sometimes find where one particularly well-turned phrase originally appeared.
Despite bucketfuls of debt, our holiday plans can still be decided by a well-turned phrase.
Hitting on a well-turned phrase, he preens with self-satisfaction.
He laughed, softly, at this well-turned phrase, while the students took notes.
He was already a well-known figure in Scotland, because of his mastery of the well-turned phrase.
They quoted well-turned phrases and fondly remembered ingenious conclusions.
Even as that declined, the Vilnius style of Baroque architecture ripened in glory, a "splendid autumn" in one of Mr Briedis's many well-turned phrases, that paid "a gracious farewell to its phantom golden age .The most poignant chapter is on cemeteries past and present, many of which were desecrated by the Soviets.
He immediately starts cracking jokes (then dissecting them with further displays of wit) and revelling in his own well-turned phrases, telling of nurse's uniforms making "a packety sound", "the quiet ambition of every homestead" and "a world of mistakes, of diametrical mistakes".
As readers of Chabon's fiction might expect, the essays come complete with well-turned, pithy phrases.
With less than one month to go before Russians vote in an election that is almost certain to be won by Acting President Vladimir V. Putin, some of the liberals who hailed his rise are voicing fears that there may be authoritarian instincts lurking beneath Mr Putin's well-turned democratic phrases.
