Examples of phrasing in a Sentence

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Recent Examples on the Web Vin Scully was baseball’s Sinatra, a man who sang the song of the game with great timing and phrasing, without blowing a lyric, or dangling a participle. — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022 In describing the flights, CCTV used phrasing that could either mean the Su-35s were flying across the Taiwan Strait or through it. — Joyu Wang, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022 Though guitar heroism often feels cold and self-regarding, obsessed with its own intent to blow you away, Kingfish’s command of tone, touch and phrasing comes across as not just confident but also confiding. — Carlo Rotella, Washington Post, 20 July 2022 Touring violinists perform valiantly in the festival’s tricky open-air setting all the time, eking out minutiae in phrasing and dynamics against DuSable Lake Shore Drive and Michigan Avenue’s rowdy counterpoints. — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2022 Streamlining your phrasing to remove negative nuances and replacing it with keywords that suggest a much more neutral approach can engage participation without friction. — Goran Paun, Forbes, 13 May 2022 The final opinion is still to come, and of course justices can change their votes and their phrasing before opinions are formally released. — Jill Filipovic, CNN, 3 May 2022 By turns restrained and robust, his imaginative phrasing revealed a gift for seizing the dramatic moment within a recording or arrangement. — New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021 But Michael Spyres, his tenor usually trumpeting, sounded uneasy in the title role, his phrasing abrupt and the top of his voice strained. — New York Times, 8 July 2022 See More

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