"phrase" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This phrase evokes the primordial swamp and the Nqaul tree which grew within the original swamp.
- Today the phrase "a new world order" evokes nothing but cynicism.
- The very phrase "20th-century art" now evokes a global phenomenon, far larger and more complex than yesterday's bankable Picasso-to-Pollock model.
- For most people, the phrase evokes bland food, bad sewing and self-righteous fussiness.
- To a recently expatriated "primitive," offense does not even begin to describe the feeling this phrase evokes.
- The phrase "lower realms" evoked a sense of uneasiness again.
- Single phrases often evoked a whole era: "Beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly."
- "Miss the ferry" - the phrase still evokes an ominous sense of failure and incompetence, like crashing the car, dropping the vase, losing your dog.
- The term self-mutilation is also sometimes used, although this phrase evokes connotations that some find worrisome, inaccurate, or offensive.
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