"phrase" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- "The country above us" - her lofty American's phrase for Canada - "always struck me as storage space, like an attic."
- To hear her float the aching, lofty phrases of Violetta's deathbed aria in "La Traviata" is to hear beautiful singing and poignant emotion in sublime balance.
- Lately, the lofty and evocative phrase "Harlem Renaissance" has been bandied about as if it were newly relevant.
- Said Riggs: "We use lofty phrases such as 'with justice for all,' when we talk about our legal system.
- The lofty final phrases "up in nosebleed country," as Ms. Price called it, must proclaim despair: "She's not scared of dying; she's scared of living without her man."
- On the stump, Mr. Hastert sticks to a meat-and-potatoes speech, stripped clean of lofty phrases.
- He started almost humbly and worked his way up to long, lofty phrases.
- Look at the programs, promotional brochures and newsletters of the state's major playhouses and you'll come upon lofty phrases about cherishing life and affirming the spirits.
- Charles Gould, to use the suitably lofty phrase, rode like a centaur.
- That statement is accurate, though such lofty phrases have no place in the series itself, which remains rooted in one family's illuminating and richly captured lives.
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