How to Use put (something) into words in a Sentence
put (something) into words
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Moms are amazing and that can be a tough thing to put into words.
—Mark Stock, Men's Health, 17 Dec. 2022
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The anxiety that has built over the months is hard to put into words.
—Jessica Knight Henry, Essence, 11 Nov. 2022
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What sets my most worn dresses apart can be hard to put into words.
—Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Mar. 2023
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Cocoon may be a tough game to put into words, but that doesn’t mean its mind-bending concept won’t stick with you.
—Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2023
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Tilson Thomas has now added something new and different that cannot be put into words.
—Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023
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Some things are just more nebulous and harder to put into words.
—Vulture, 19 July 2023
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Big ideas seem impossible to put into words as the moon and Neptune clash.
—USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2024
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When Chow lights one, the smoke tendrils swirl upward like the churning of his mind, impossible to put into words.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2023
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The following quotes by authors, singers, actors, and thinkers will help put into words the mixed feelings of a chapter in your life coming to a close as the countdown to 2023 comes closer.
—Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 5 Dec. 2022
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Not everything can be put into words, especially grief and rage, no matter how precise and skilled the writing is.
—Erika L. Sanchez, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
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The Queen had an uncanny knack for encapsulating in a phrase what the rest of us think but rarely quite put into words, or at least rarely have the opportunity to say to the right person at the right time.
—Andrew Roberts, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
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However, there are a number of standout elements of the hotel that are easier to put into words.
—Samantha Lauriello, Travel + Leisure, 14 June 2022
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The scope of the potential fallout is difficult to put into words without becoming a massive, eye-blurring list.
—Daniel Rivero, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024
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The show articulated thoughts she's had but couldn't put into words about being from another country but growing up in the United States.
—Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 26 Sep. 2022
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Brammer’s gift is his uncanny ability to put into words a feeling or an idea that feels unexplainable.
—Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
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For fans, the opportunity to see their favorite player, team or coach on the cover provided an unmistakable sense of joy and excitement that was sometimes hard to put into words.
—Craig Meyer, The Courier-Journal, 19 Jan. 2024
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Better to simply call her a writer: a person who must put into words that which preoccupies her; not for therapeutic ends, not for consolation, but with a probing concern about that which wounds us.
—Meghan O'Rourke, Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2022
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Before it was ever put into words, the connection, between Meg He and Margot Ciccarelli was apparent from their movements.
—John Otis, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2023
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There is also the spiritual, inner effect, incredibly hard to put into words.
—Javier Hasse, Forbes, 17 June 2022
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Through voices and narratives that are constantly interrupting and interfering with one another, Fosse captures the grief—and love—that can never be put into words.
—Alex Shephard, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2022
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Poetry gave me the opportunity to put into words something that escaped my comprehension.
—Alejandra Molina, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2023
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Professor Young, a neuroscientist at Emory University in Atlanta, used prairie voles in a series of experiments that revealed the chemical process for the pirouette of heart-fluttering emotions that poets have tried to put into words for centuries.
—Michael S. Rosenwald, New York Times, 2 May 2024
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In these two people's asymmetric interaction—in their syncopation of syllables and pauses, their counterpoint of postures and facial movements—lies an original story, one that can’t be put into words.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2022
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