Example Sentences
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So you might still see a few different phrases on food products that were already on the shelves or in a retailer’s stock.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 26, 2026
Beatty’s lyrics are filled with strong images and evocative phrases — the paint chipping off a “white picket dream” in the new album’s “Fleur de Lis,” for instance.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2026
Common phrases included free bread, free money and just free.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026
The same could be said for the Bible, which for centuries has furnished the English language and the Western mind with phrases, analogies and images.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026
More than a hundred years later Galileo still needed, when writing in Latin, to use convoluted phrases such as ‘unknown to all astronomers before me’ to convey it.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
