How to Use phraseology in a Sentence

phraseology

noun

• I recognized the writer's distinctive phraseology even before I saw the name.
• The video showed that even when out of character, Spicer knows how to attack a questioner in Trumpian phraseology.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 14 Mar. 2017
• The language of the legal papers is never tame, but even by Trump lawsuit standards, the phraseology of Mary Trump’s lawsuit is blistering.
  — Andrea Bernstein, The New York Review of Books, 5 Oct. 2020
• The new phraseology reflects an even wider embrace of flavor fusions that marry savory spices and heat with sweetness.
  — New York Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• This phraseology is all too familiar for anyone who has closely followed the last decade of debate around climate change.
  — Justin Worland, Time, 13 May 2020
• While his music often hinges on menace, phraseology like that lets slip the playfulness that underlines so many Drakeo songs.
  — Paul Thompson, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2021
• Rabbi David Tzvi Hoffman points out that these two sections open and close with similar phraseology setting them off as distinct units.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 24 July 2017
• Rabbi David Tzvi Hoffmann points out that these two sections open and close with similar phraseology, setting them off as distinct units.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 12 July 2021
• The British accents and phraseology are an important part of the case, though, as prosecutors seek to prove that Elsheikh is indeed one of the Beatles who tortured hostages, even though the Beatles took great pains to conceal their faces.
  — CBS News, 1 Apr. 2022
• The great helmsman recounted the youthful dissenters’ arrest and repeated the axe phraseology.
  — David B. Moore, Quartz Africa, 7 Sep. 2019
• The morale of the culture is revealed by a common menu of the characters to be admired or deplored, as well as the catchwords and clichés and incidental phraseology that convey the necessary features of an attitude.
  — David Bromwich, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
• Hey, Mark, so we`re coming off four years of scorched earth, no one is calling for that, no one is calling for another round of memorable but horrible nicknames that reduced people to tiny school yard phraseology.
  — NBC News, 20 Aug. 2021
• For broader society, some comfort with new phraseology will come with its use, and the people whose lives are affected by these problems may begin to be more genuinely accepted.
  — Star Tribune, 17 June 2021
• After they're seated, Brock gently coaches Bourdain on the intricacies of Waffle House hash brown phraseology.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Southern Living, 13 June 2018
• Now the latest market froth is contributing its own colorful phraseology.
  — Dan Beucke, latimes.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• But experts cringed, seeing the phraseology as ignorant bullying that, for a few seconds of nationalistic joy, raised the danger level.
  — Kurt Eichenwald, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2017
• Abercrombie & Fitch usually couched their racist practices in vague phraseology.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2022
• Dominant and tonic chords (aka V and I chords) are the most common in classical music, playing a vital role in musical phraseology, and there are many variants within those two broad classifications.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2019
• Sleeveless doesn’t attempt this kind of verisimilitude, rarely foregrounding electronic devices or the sparse phraseology of online dialogue.
  — Zoë Hu, The New Republic, 28 Oct. 2019
• After promising to create the images, Rockwell faced the difficult task of transforming governmental phraseology into evocative tableaux on canvas.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian, 5 Feb. 2018
• On numerous occasions, China’s President has used almost the same phraseology.
  — Hannah Beech, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2017
• His skillful management of the phraseology surrounding the epochal shift in monetary policy will go down as a classic case study in superior message control, and therefore superior public policy.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2021
• Dewey’s philosophy was one of communitarian liberalism (in Sandel’s seemingly paradoxical phraseology), and at its core was the institution of the public school and the process of education for citizenship and democracy.
  — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 20 May 2022
• His expletive phraseology is particularly entertaining — original and hysterical.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2018

Last Updated: 12 Oct 2024