How to Use phrasing in a Sentence

phrasing

noun

• The phrasing of the instructions was confusing.
• Well, maybe like a few lyrics here or there, a few phrasings.
  — David Peisner, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2019
• The tough part is the phrasing to try to get all the words in to sing.
  — Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 6 Feb. 2026
• And some of that phrasing is pretty tricky.
  — Blair R. Fischer, Chicago Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
• And why the person who sent the email sent it and chose that phrasing.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 17 July 2017
• Her phrasing was, for the most part, slurred, soothing and bland.
  — Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2017
• There were so many times when his phrasing was wildly out of sync with the rest of the band.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
• She wasn’t exposed to the world of drugs and noticed her own phrasings.
  — Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 28 Feb. 2025
• So, the poor phrasing gets Larson off on the wrong foot from the start.
  — Sophia Voight, Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2024
• Some see the city’s phrasing as an extension of that fight.
  — Haajrah Gilani, Houston Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026
• The pessimists will see the phrasing as an insult.
  — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2026
• My then-boyfriend, Nick, ignored the tragedy but liked the phrasing.
  — Kelsey Cox, People.com, 30 June 2025
• That’s why the phrasing of questions matters so much.
  — King Holder, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2026
• The playing, singing, rhythm, phrasing — no one can do that anymore.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
• The phrasing comes to me in a way that feels familiar now, but the words cut all the same.
  — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 27 Jan. 2020
• The résumé maker helps pick the right layout and phrasing.
  — William Jones, IndyStar, 12 Dec. 2025
• The phrasing made some fans wonder if Mary had more than two babies.
  — Hannah Orenstein, Seventeen, 28 June 2017
• The phrasing is widely believed to infer the next move would be a cut.
  — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 20 May 2026
• The new phrasing would be fine with Avianna if her sister left it at that.
  — New York Times, 28 Sep. 2021
• Yes, there's his ability to adapt and absorb and the phrasing of songs.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 May 2022
• Even there, the phrasing of Kelly's question left a door open.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2018
• Before that, asking more fluent friends to help get the phrasing and flow right was the norm.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 Feb. 2023
• In Forrest’s phrasing, his plane could fit inside the truck’s bed.
  — Justin Worland, TIME, 25 Feb. 2025
• Ted Kennedy read from the 1966 speech, adding his own phrasing in spots.
  — Katie Mettler, Washington Post, 8 June 2018
• Does Annabelle have the same rights as a human child, hence the legal-guardian phrasing?
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2025
• Her phrasing reminded me that the language of cities and climate change can be odd.
  — Clive Thompson, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2020
• But this phrasing doesn’t belong to Nelson.
  — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
• Much of the odd phrasing is the result of half-translations from French.
  — Valentina Pop, WSJ, 15 June 2018
• The phrasing in the piece suggests a lack of agency on his part, which wasn’t my intention.
  — Joshua Hammer, The New York Review of Books, 10 Feb. 2022
• Some investors and economists had said the phrasing could amount to a default.
  — Fortune, 28 Feb. 2022