How to Use phraseology in a Sentence

phraseology

noun
  • I recognized the writer's distinctive phraseology even before I saw the name.
  • It’s all cloaked in the phraseology of being true to the faith.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
  • This happens when speakers use local phraseology and native jokes.
    — Roman Kumar Vyas, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Now the latest market froth is contributing its own colorful phraseology.
    — Dan Beucke, latimes.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Abercrombie & Fitch usually couched their racist practices in vague phraseology.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The great helmsman recounted the youthful dissenters’ arrest and repeated the axe phraseology.
    — David B. Moore, Quartz Africa, 7 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • And to dust off some golden-oldie phraseology that fans, friends and media often ascribe to great athletes who’ve made epic falls, Ilia Malinin will be back.
    — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • And the Florida governor isn't the only one who appears to be borrowing Trump phraseology.
    — Emma Nicholson, CBS News, 10 July 2023
  • 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
  • To commission a gravestone in proper Roman style, with good syntax and phraseology, was proof that her family had ‘made it’ in Londinium.
    — Rachel Ashcroft, Longreads, 17 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • If a creator doesn’t respond, or doesn’t respond fast enough, he or she is labeled a gatekeeper (for those not fluent in TikTok phraseology, this is not a compliment).
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 31 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • The job descriptions are incorporating this gen-AI phraseology.
    — Lindsay Kohler, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • On numerous occasions, China’s President has used almost the same phraseology.
    — Hannah Beech, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Pope Francis, whose native language is Spanish and not Italian, has at times during his papacy made up words, or used slang or inappropriate phraseology during his remarks, often while speaking off-the-cuff.
    — Phoebe Natanson, ABC News, 28 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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

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