How To Use As we say In A Sentence
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The pilot straps himself to this bulky rig in a standing position, controlling it with joysticks during vertical takeoff and landing - or VTOL, as we say in the hover biz.
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He perceived that many forms had been subjected to what he calls degeneration, or, as we say, modification, and that the progress from the simple to the complex was by no means direct.
Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
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Troy is certainly heir to the throne of alpha male, so there's going to be that natural organic energy of conflict that happens between the silverbacks and the branch crashers as we say in primatology.
Is Community Really Going to Be "Less Weird" This Year?
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Besides these three sources measurably unprofessional and outside of music, or amateur, as we say now, there was the work of the professional musicians strictly so-called, who, from about 1100 in the old French school, commenced the development of what is now known as polyphony, which culminated in the hands of the Netherlanders, about 1580, Palestrina himself being one of the latest products of this school.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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Wei, Ts'ai, Ts'ao, and T'êng, all of the imperial family name, or, as we say in English, "surname," and all lying between the Hwai and the Sz systems (T'êng was a "belonging state" of Lu).
Ancient China Simplified
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Into England (as we sayd before) Don Pedro de Valdez, a man of singular experience, and greatly honoured in his countrey, was led captiue, being accompanied with Don Vasquez de Silua, Don Alonzo de
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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I was introduced to blue board when I participated in decorating a set for the drama department - a little lagniappe or something extra, as we say in New Orleans.
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Bravo to Terry Teachout's long-overdue appreciation of Broadway orchestrators, or "arrangers" as we say in the Big Band biz (
Hi Ho, Let's Give a Hand to Thank The Lone Arranger
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So I think a lot of the intolerance we encounter with regard to sleep is about control issues, as we say, ways of telling ourselves we're in control of something that is frighteningly unsusceptible to control.
'Insomniac'
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Born in London of a French mother, by a German father, but reared entirely in England and in France, there is, in his fury, a combination of French suddenness and impressibility with our more slowly demonstrative Anglo-Saxon way when we get, as we say, “our blood up”, that produces an intensely fiery result.
Miscellaneous Papers
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Your Honour, the scheme of the legislation, as we say, is dealing with commission of indictable offences.
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I. i.217 (15,1) in strong proof] In chastity _of proof_, as we say in armour _of proof_.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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And just as we say that fire has brightness [1539] through the light proceeding from it, and do not consider the light of the fire as an instrument ministering to the fire, but rather as its natural force: so we say that the Father creates all that He creates through His Only-begotten Son, not as though the Son were a mere instrument serving [1540] the Father's ends, but as His natural and subsistential force [1541].
NPNF2-09. Hilary of Poitiers, John of Damascus
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A long-legged lad, of about thirteen, with a brog or awl was teasing out the end of a flambeau in preparation to light it for some purpose not to be guessed at, and a servant lass, pock-marked, with one eye on the pot and the other up the lum, as we say of a glee or cast, made a storm of lamentation, crying in
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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At the wood-pile on the shore you may generally see one of the people called "Pikes," whom you will recognize by a very broad-brimmed hat, a frequent squirting of tobacco-juice, and the possession of two or three hounds, whom they call hereabouts "hound-dogs," as we say "bull-dog.
Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands
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II. i.286 (46,8) [This ancient morsel] For _morsel_ Dr. Warburton reads _ancient moral_, very elegantly and judiciously, yet I know not whether the author might not write _morsel_, as we say a _piece of a man_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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Last season was wicked awesome, as we say here in New England.
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Here's health, or slainte, as we say in Irish, and good wishes for the years ahead.
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Higher still are the records or memories of individual experience and the registration of individual habits, while on the surface is the instreaming multitude of messages from the outside world, like raindrops and hailstones on the stream, some of them penetrating deeply, being, as we say, full of meaning.
The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told
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So vast is the disproportion between the sky of law and the pismire of performance under it, that whether he is a man of worth or a sot is not so great a matter as we say.
Representative Men
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As we say over here, your aristotle should be doing the ol 'half-a-crown/sixpence, half-a-crown/sixpence routine!
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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As we say over here, your aristotle should be doing the ol 'half-a-crown/sixpence, half-a-crown/sixpence routine!
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Meanwhile as a backdrop the tapestry is an ongoing piece of work, as we say in the NHS.
The Needle in the Blood
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“He is not absolutely drunk,” said Hart, “but is what he terms cheerful; that is, ripe for a row, as we say; he will, therefore, attack his wife, unless hindered; so get them off as fast as you can.”
Three Weeks in the Downs, or Conjugal Fidelity Rewarded: exemplified in the Narrative of Helen and Edmund
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But, as we say in the South, I'll guaran-damn-TEE you that, after reading this tonight, I'm upping my contributions to Obama.
Bill Clinton: Are Caucuses More Important Than Primaries?
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I wish you wouldn't look so thin and dowie-like, as we say up at home -- you've no cause to fret, I'm sure.
Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II
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Yet, as soon as I went about my master's affairs, as needs I must, I would be known and taken; and, as we say in our country proverb, "my craig would ken the weight of my hurdies.
A Monk of Fife
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I've always thought your clash of civilisations thesis was - as we say here in Britain - a load of cobblers.
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the feeling is, as we say, quite dead
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He should bounce back, as we say in the medical lingo, within a few days, I think.
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We had thought, as we say in paragraph 3 of our skeleton argument, that it would aid clarity and certainty if your Lordships retained, in a sense, charge of the exact scope of the liberty to apply.
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BEGALA: And they produced, as we say in the Catholic Church, bubkes, nothing on fundamental health care reform, except President Bush did sign a vast expansion of prescription drug benefits without any way to pay for it, which is about $800 billion added to the deficit, which helped a lot of people, but it cost a lot of money.
CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2009
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No doubt this gentleman knows what he is doing, and has assurances of the young lady’s safety — So you must jouk and let the jaw gae by, as we say.”
The Surgeon's Daughter
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It is said that they acquired this name because the Zulu kings when they exercised dominion over all that district were in the habit of despatching large herds of the royal cattle to be looked after by these people, or in their own idiom to be _sisa'd_, i.e. agisted, as we say in English of stock that are entrusted to another to graze at a distance from the owner's home.
Smith and the Pharaohs, and other Tales
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And then there's ferns and hostas and things that give you the idea of lushness and shade and water, and then we've added irises and calla lilies and things of that sort that actually have their -- as we say -- their feet in the water, that like being in wet soil.
CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2002
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Everybody on the border in those days used to steal, and their best "holt," as we say, was cattle.
Public Speaking
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But as we say, we are watching very closely the storms clouds, convective activity as they say -- so-called anvil clouds which are sheared off thunder clouds.
CNN Transcript Jul 1, 2006
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If perhaps you've been living under a rock somewhere, or in the bundu, as we say in Africa, you will not know that the FIFA World Cup is taking place from June 11th until July 11th in South Africa.
Luso Mnthali: Fever Pitch: What the World Cup Means to Africa
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It is a "conventionalized" creation, as we say of ornamentation.
In the Wilderness
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Also, the relation between the reason and the conclusion, as we say, is just a logical one.
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My wounds were dressed, the burn on my shoulder was dressed, and I was still a bit wonky as we say in the biz, but I was able to say that I had ‘forgotten’ my medicine, which was a lie.
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II. i.286 (46,8) [This ancient morsel] For _morsel_ Dr. Warburton reads _ancient moral_, very elegantly and judiciously, yet I know not whether the author might not write _morsel_, as we say a _piece of a man_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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conventionalized" creation, as we say of ornamentation.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
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Of course there is Lassen Peak in California -- the exception, as we say, which proves the rule.
The Book of the National Parks
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He has invented the trisosceles trapezoid (or trapezium as we say in the UK).
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Through some avenue, suggestions, intuitions of truth, intuitions of occurrences of which through the thinking mind we could know nothing, are at times borne in upon us; they flash into our consciousness, as we say, quite independent of any mental action on our part, and sometimes when we are thinking of something quite foreign to that which comes to, that which "impresses" us.
The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit
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Another "mad breenge '" - as we say in Scotland - and we're at Mater on 159 kilometres, a three kilometre cobble stretch.
PezCyclingNews.com
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Such people, the powerless, are easy prey, for those who stalk the political landscape, searching for scapegoats onto whom the angry and disenfranchised, whether socially or economically, can be sooled, as we say where I come from.
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Remember, this criterion also applies to your internal voice: is it your psychological complex talking to you, or something independent of your own history that could be “other-directed,” as we say in afterlife research?
The Sacred Promise
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I love the Lilliums and actually everything even the silly, pink mophead, it looks really cute, I would give it a fair go, as we say here.
Blogger Visitors, In The Garden « Fairegarden
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Tell me if you know differently (or "different," as we say in Hogtown).
Gulf oil spill to reach Atlantic seaboard? [Updated]
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He then threw a mardy - as we say around here - and went off in a sulk claiming he had better things to do than post on the BBC blog.
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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Barack Obama already, as we say, is looking beyond what he calls his uphill battle in Pennsylvania to the primaries in two weeks on May 6.
CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2008
