Sentence examples for without a phrase from inspiring English sources
Indeed, in a sample "Itinerary in Congreve's London," reprinted in the theater's program, a footnote explains that the true man about town never left home without a phrase book of jottings -- "scraps of wisdom and wit".
Walking over five miles to retrieve fresh water - often without shoes - a phrase my grandfather used when describing his impoverished life in Russia over 100 years ago - was her reality.
If you got this far without finishing a phrase, congratulations!
Even when young, Bernstein understood how to bring spaciousness to a phrase without sacrificing intensity.
Post-apartheid South Africa is indeed a new world, one in which Marion, at least, finds she is "a reluctant traveler who has landed in a foreign country without so much as a phrase book".
Another writer of the South described it as apparently without foundation -- a phrase that is used all the time to dismiss the black oral tradition as apocryphal.
That's because "lost the locker room" is a phrase without meaning, the timeworn logical fallacy of correlation without causation.
Nowadays, no one would dream of using such a phrase without being savaged on Twitter.
Russell Beale's lecture was entitled "Without Memory or Desire", a phrase coined by the analyst Wilfred Bion.
In coaching, Bilas believes the key distinction is "being demanding without being demeaning," borrowing a phrase from former NFL coach Tony Dungy.
A hashtag is a word or a phrase without spaces prefixed with the hash symbol # inserted anywhere in the body of tweets.
