Definition of phrase:

part of speech: verb

To express in peculiar words; to style.

part of speech: noun

Two or more words containing a particular mode of speech; an idiom; style or manner in writing or speaking.

part of speech: verb transitive

To express in words.

Usage examples:

• " That's sure all right," he said, though, beyond a telling phrase or two,- one line in particular which would stick in his memory: " Men live and love and die in that lonely land,"- he had no very clear idea of what it was all about. B. M. Bower in "Lonesome Land".

• Then she assented to his last phrase saying, very gently: 'No- I can't say anything. Rose Macaulay in "The Furnace".

• We have now to ask how much this mysterious phrase involves; who was the Angel of whom it speaks? G. A. Chadwick in "The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus".

• But under her breath she kept on repeating one sobbing phrase It isn't fair! Mary Helen Fee in "The Locusts' Years".