phraseology - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • writer: Readers accustomed to the gaudiness and inane phraseology of many modern writers.
  • language: Material on the phraseology of special language should be included in curricula for professional training.

Converse of object

  • use: However, I do think that the phraseology used by the learned judge is of some relevance in the context of his earlier findings.
  • adopt: The New Zealand legislation did not enact the London Convention wholesale, but adopted similar phraseology to the Convention.
  • employ: While this continued, leadership would pass elsewhere, perhaps by means of the Right Wing employing left phraseology.
  • include: Although the Statement of Responsibilities included such phraseology, it did not seem to influence or reflect contemporary practice.

Adjective modifier

  • such: Such phraseology was needed by those who wanted to name things without calling up mental pictures of them.
  • similar: The New Zealand legislation did not enact the London Convention wholesale, but adopted similar phraseology to the Convention.
  • legal: His duties as Steward required him to be so and in his diary he frequently employs Latin words and terms drawn from legal phraseology.
  • standard: From now on all conversation is in standard phraseology, with each phrase having a pre-determined response.
  • own: If we reflect some of their own phraseology back to them, they're unlikely to think we haven't listened.
  • socialist: Vague pacifist agitation, veiled by socialist phraseology, is an excellent tool for the bourgeois rĂ©gime.

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