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Interjection


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of interjecting or throwing between; also, that which is interjected.
  • (n.) A word or form of speech thrown in to express emotion or feeling, as O! Alas! Ha ha! Begone! etc. Compare Exclamation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I see the question from a human rights perspective,” interjects Hasan.
  • (2) The responses appeared to refer directly to Operation Sovereign Borders, but the immigration department secretary, Martin Bowles, later interjected to clarify that they were meant as general responses to operational matters.
  • (3) This is the man who, when in the first presidential debate Clinton suggested he doesn’t pay federal income taxes, interjected: “That makes me smart.” Trump claims he cannot release his taxes while he is under audit.
  • (4) I begin a question about British Eurosceptics – "Lots of people where I come from – " but she can see what's coming and interjects warmly, "A beautiful island."
  • (5) I hadn't taken much notice of them in the years before, other than vowing unspecific homicide, but they were – every stressy interjection was now – specifically designed to fatigue me.
  • (6) Despite some previously published favorable prognostic assessments about this unique variant of cervical rhabdomyosarcoma, our limited experience would interject a note of caution, especially in the presence of a focal alveolar pattern and invasion of lymphatics in the cervix.
  • (7) Embattled FBI director James Comey has refused to clarify whether his organization is investigating Donald Trump’s ties to Russia in a closed briefing on Friday for members of Congress, angering legislators who recall his high-profile interjections about Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign , the Guardian has learned.
  • (8) It doesn't come off, despite Cavani and Ramirez's best efforts, though Colombia took their time to interject and clear that.
  • (9) He couldn’t resist interjecting: “That’s called business, by the way.” The Republican’s best moment came over trade, his strongest suit in the election campaign.
  • (10) Children whose single words were frequently interjections produced sentences which expressed desire for an object.
  • (11) Lord Justice Leveson at times had to interject to warn McMullan that he risked incriminating himself while he was rattling off claims about alleged criminal wrongdoing during his time at News International's Sunday tabloid, which was closed at the height of the public outcry over phone hacking in July.
  • (12) she interjects, stretching out her fingertips and doing a Liza Minnelli-esque approximation of jazz hands.
  • (13) Hunt mentioned the scandal at Mid Staffordshire hospital several times and Burnham placed a strong focus on the cost of agency staff: Guardian Healthcare (@GdnHealthcare) Burnham: "Trusts are in the grip of private staffing agencies" #healthdebate April 21, 2015 There were calmer interjections from the Lib Dem’s Lamb who focused on mental health provision throughout and Ukip’s representative Reid.
  • (14) Terrible show.” “Lots of people agree that the Emmys were a joke – got bad ratings – no credibility!”) When Hillary Clinton mocked him for caring about Emmy-rigging more then election-rigging during the presidential debates, Trump couldn’t resist interjecting “shoulda gotten it”.
  • (15) Sir Martin Sorrell, the WPP chief executive, who interviewed Murdoch in Cannes, then interjected to ask if his comments meant that "Sky is just the beginning", referring to News Corp's proposed plan to buy the 60.9% of BSkyB that it does not already own.
  • (16) We saw the revolution on the television and we learned that if you want to change something in your life, this is what you do,” interjected one small boy.
  • (17) Taxpayers can think of a few other choice Anglo-Saxon terms to sum up this affair , interjects Adrian Bailey ( please make your suggestions in the comments below ).
  • (18) Here I am saying why (standing orders) should be suspended so that we have the proper debate and we have a vote in your Speakership and whether you have the confidence of the house – and you interject from the chair in order to slap that down.
  • (19) Johnson, who sat in silence at the table as his aides debated, interjected: "Well, what the hell's the presidency for."
  • (20) There are cleaners that work harder than I ever have, or you ever have, and they don’t have much money.” Turnbull provoked interjections from Labor MPs when he implied the opposition leader, Bill Shorten , had questions to answer about the deals he presided over when he headed the Australian Workers’ Union.

Phrase


Definition:

  • (n.) A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase.
  • (n.) A short, pithy expression; especially, one which is often employed; a peculiar or idiomatic turn of speech; as, to err is human.
  • (n.) A mode or form of speech; the manner or style in which any one expreses himself; diction; expression.
  • (n.) A short clause or portion of a period.
  • (v. t.) To express in words, or in peculiar words; to call; to style.
  • (v. i.) To use proper or fine phrases.
  • (v. i.) To group notes into phrases; as, he phrases well. See Phrase, n., 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But in 2017, to borrow another phrase from across the pond, there simply is no alternative.
  • (2) I never accuse a student of plagiarizing unless I have proof, almost always in the form of sources easily found by Googling a few choice phrases.
  • (3) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
  • (4) The phrase “self-inflicted blow” was one he used repeatedly, along with the word “glib” – applied to his Vote Leave opponents.
  • (5) On Thursday, Dutton had scaled his language back, instead using a phrase to describe Labor’s policy borrowed from former prime minister, Tony Abbott.
  • (6) At a dinner party, say, if ever you hear a person speak of a school for Islamic children, or Catholic children (you can read such phrases daily in newspapers), pounce: "How dare you?
  • (7) The #putyourwalletsout phrase was coined by Sydney-based Twitter user Steve Lopez, who accompanied it with a photo of his wallet.
  • (8) He admitted that he had “no reason” to fire the shots that killed Steenkamp, as Nel told him: “Your version is so improbable, that nobody would ever think it’s reasonably, possibly true, it’s so impossible … Your version is a lie.” Nel said the phrase “I love you” appeared only twice in WhatsApp messages from Steenkamp and, on both occasions, they were written to her mother: “Never to you and you never to her.” Day 20: live coverage as it happened.
  • (9) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
  • (10) (now the phrase "reverse engineer" has me thinking).
  • (11) In it he translated Trump’s coarse ramblings into charming straight talk and came up with the phrase “truthful hyperbole”, which captures brilliantly an approach to business and politics in which everything is the greatest, the most beautiful.
  • (12) To complement these results a perception test was carried out in which 29 native speakers identified a randomised sequence of 220 stimuli from tape as one of the phrases 'Diese Gruppe kann ich nicht leid(e)n (leit(e)n)'.
  • (13) Peskov has refused to deny the phrase, saying only that Ponomaryov's publicising of a private conversation was "not manly".
  • (14) One of my technologists has a phrase: ‘internet of other people’s things,’” Tien said.
  • (15) The phrase “currency war” speaks to a seemingly phoney battle between the world’s major trading powers over the price of exports.
  • (16) Thereafter they both got so angry with one another they started adopting each other's pet phrases – "I won't be lectured to by..." – and there was the unnerving possibility they might just morph into a single, spluttering entity.
  • (17) Later that year, speaking at Sinn Féin's annual conference, I used the phrase "the Armalite and the ballot box" to sum up the new duel strategy of engaging in armed struggle and simultaneously contesting elections.
  • (18) Mohan also said it amounted to an "innocuous British institution", a phrase that inadvertently emphasised its anachronistic nature.
  • (19) The phrase "Frankenfood" entered tabloid English at the turn of the last century when protesters, backed by the green movement, trashed GM crops wearing white overalls and face masks as an emotive PR tactic.
  • (20) The phrase "Defender of the Faith," which is usually included in the King's titles, appears neither in the instrument of abdication nor in the bill.