"phrase" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Throughout the document, seemingly innocuous phrases often concealed a powerful clash of principles.
- They received, rather, a conversation constructed at random out of a vast stock of innocuous phrases in various tones and voices.
- With such an innocuous phrase, he said, "Parents would look at it or might even say it, and then the kids look at them and say, 'Oh, man."'
- Seemingly innocuous phrases in the legislation gave the SCP director considerable power.
- She felt slightly defensive for, despite the innocuous and formal phrases, she sensed an undercurrent in his speech.
- The blame of which I speak is indirectly assigned, a consequence of that seemingly innocuous phrase "role model."
- After Mr. Ray asked her to repeat a few innocuous phrases onto the tape, he asked her whether she knew another defendant in the case.
- So, in that obscenely innocuous phrase, he "accepted no." Is he therefore guiltless of driving her to her coffin?
- Gerald could drop into a frenzy at the slightest provocation these days; anything from an innocuous phrase to the sight of a long corridor which he assumed led directly to the outside world.
- "It sounds like such an innocuous phrase."
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