"refer" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Beust himself considers his sexual orientation a private matter; when asked directly he usually ironically refers the interviewer to his father.
- The term is now common parlance in French political commentary, used both critically and ironically referring back to de Gaulle.
- He referred to her ironically as la fille de mon concierge.
- Local and national media refer to him ironically as "The Squire of Ravensworth".
- In Conspiration Nizan ironically refers to school life as a barrack-room existence cut off from the reality of the outside world.
- They referred to it ironically by an older, obsolete name: the Nursery.
- The name, however, ironically refers to the celebration that students haven't committed suicide due to stress of exams.
- Like the artist himself, the pieces refer ironically to their own fragile existence in the modern world.
- The title refers ironically to the fact that the space is not an object but a vaccum which we endow with its physical attributes.
- The title refers ironically to the type of man the female subject of the book is looking for.
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