How to Use paraphrase in a Sentence

paraphrase

1 of 2 noun

• This is just a paraphrase of what he said, not an exact quote.
• These lyrics do a lot of work, work that transcends paraphrase.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• The fact-check flagged a misquotation that should have been rendered as a paraphrase.
  — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
• Similarly, if their paraphrase is so at odds with what McCabe said, why aren't Democrats making a bigger deal out of it?
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2018
• That heading is a paraphrase of something Gertrude Stein said about the difference between poetry and prose.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2021
• This is reputedly a paraphrase of an assertion of Genghis Khan.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2011
• The simplest answer to a shopper’s dilemma might be a paraphrase of the advice that food writer Michael Pollan offered to those of us perplexed by our mealtime choices: Buy clothes.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
• The past, even so recent a past as 1979, a time in which a paraphrase of Lafferty’s story could still conceivably be written, is unsustainable.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• That's a paraphrase of a line usually attributed to military strategist Sun-Tzu.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 1 Mar. 2022
• To share another paraphrase of Marous, data and how it is used creates the foundation of a strong financial relationship in today’s world.
  — Monica Hovsepian, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• That’s a deft paraphrase of an old Greek mythic principle: Oblos (great wealth) leads to hubris (pride), inevitably followed by the goddess Nemesis (retribution).
  — Ralph Benko, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2020
• Rather than a paraphrase of the much earlier and much less certain quote of abolitionist minster, Theordore Parker.
  — Alexander Finlayson, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• The third section is a paraphrase of archaeologist Howard Carter describing his experience in 1922 of peering through an opening to discover King Tut’s tomb.
  — A.j. Jacobs, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2022
• Goldman’s three-word distillation turned out to be perhaps the greatest paraphrase in Hollywood history.
  — Washington Post, 9 June 2022
• Such beliefs are belated, lapsed, overdue, like a book checked out from a library and then lost for decades; the story has moved indoors, the frontier has become one of recursion, quotation, paraphrase, allegory.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• This is a perfect paraphrase of the vision that Marcellin Berthelot was promulgating exactly 120 years earlier.
  — Richard Faulk, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2015
• Those sayings included Wright’s paraphrase of some advice from Chicago author Nelson Algren.
  — Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com, 10 Nov. 2019
• Alvim, a born-again Christian who found renewed faith while recovering from cancer, delivered a separate message about the initiative using a phrase that local media identified as a paraphrase of a 1933 speech by Goebbels.
  — Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2020
• All were drawn together by a continuous colonnade, culminating at one end in Jefferson’s great rotunda, a paraphrase of the Roman Pantheon that served as the university library.
  — Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2020
• In paraphrase, analysts at the firm reasoned that neither Covid-19, nor the ruinous 9.9% contraction experienced by the United Kingdom, were necessarily the actual problem.
  — Will Nicoll, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2022
• Regularly, Ferry’s translation becomes a kind of paraphrase.
  — Denis Feeney, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2017
• Safranski’s book (a best seller in Germany) is aimed squarely at a German readership of Bildungsbürger, educated and tolerant of abstractions and paraphrases.
  — Michael Hofmann, New York Times, 16 June 2017
• So do the devices that novelists as different as Ferrante and Knausgaard rely on: characters, dialogue, incident, chronology, and, especially, the rendering of everyday life through precise, detail-flecked paraphrase.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
• This is just a paraphrase of what he said, not an exact quote.
• These lyrics do a lot of work, work that transcends paraphrase.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• The fact-check flagged a misquotation that should have been rendered as a paraphrase.
  — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
• Similarly, if their paraphrase is so at odds with what McCabe said, why aren't Democrats making a bigger deal out of it?
  — Aaron Blake, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2018
• That heading is a paraphrase of something Gertrude Stein said about the difference between poetry and prose.
  — New York Times, 15 July 2021
• This is reputedly a paraphrase of an assertion of Genghis Khan.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2011
• The simplest answer to a shopper’s dilemma might be a paraphrase of the advice that food writer Michael Pollan offered to those of us perplexed by our mealtime choices: Buy clothes.
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019

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paraphrase

2 of 2 verb

• I'm paraphrasing, but he did say something like that.
• To paraphrase Churchill, this isn’t the end of the story.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 15 May 2023
• The western sky, to paraphrase the poet, did not burn and rave at close of day.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2023
• On the long trails of my past, booze was self-care, the thing my mind needed, to paraphrase Parr.
  — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 30 Dec. 2022
• To paraphrase, on paper, the Utes are better than the Gators.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Aug. 2022
• Well, to paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, the angels will weep for them.
  — Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2021
• The heart knows things that the mind can’t explain, to paraphrase Pascal.
  — Kathy Caprino, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• To paraphrase Smith, if a player wants to be at Utah, great.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 May 2021
• To paraphrase the 1990s band Chumbawamba: Play the songs that remind them of the good times.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 13 July 2023
• The credit goes to the man in the arena, to paraphrase Theodore Roosevelt, not the critic.
  — Jodie Cook, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• To paraphrase our rabbis, in a place where there is no ish, stand up and be one (Ethics of the Sages 2:5).
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2023
• To paraphrase one of Winslow’s heroes, Elmore Leonard, the key is to cut the stuff no one will read.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• Possibly, but to paraphrase Mark Twain, that’s not the way to bet.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2021
• To paraphrase Gertrude Stein, one wonders if there is a there there.
  — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2022
• To paraphrase a very old line: other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the show?
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
• Now, to paraphrase an iconic Mel and Sue phrase: On your marks, get set...shop!
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 22 July 2022
• To paraphrase a passage from the Talmud, the long road is the shortest because the short roads lead nowhere.
  — James McKenna, Quartz, 14 Feb. 2023
• To paraphrase John Adams, a free republic will be one of ideas, not of men.
  — The Editors, National Review, 21 Oct. 2021
• To paraphrase Chandler Bing, can this get any more creepy?
  — Kturnqui, oregonlive, 31 May 2023
• But to paraphrase one of their own songs, welcome back, prog-rock friends, to the show that may never end.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2021
• To paraphrase a golf saying, dunk for show, defend and hit 3s for dough.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2021
• To paraphrase an old motto, let your mouse do the walking.
  — Motormouth Bob Weber, Star Tribune, 18 June 2021
• To paraphrase Robert Frost, the roads these two men were on diverged in a wood, and Biden took the one the law requires you to travel on.
  — Bradley P. Moss, CNN, 11 Jan. 2023
• To paraphrase the legendary book by Carey McWilliams, a critique of our factories in the fires.
  — Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2022
• To paraphrase the immortal words of Jay-Z: 50 Cent is a business, man.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2023
• To paraphrase Joni Mitchell, the county will pave this non-paradise to put up a parking lot.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
• But in the long run, to paraphrase Tom Brady from 20 or so years ago, his favorite receiver needs to be the one that’s open.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Oct. 2022
• Yes, to paraphrase Tolstoy, all seasons are strange in their own strange ways, but this one?
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2023
• To paraphrase from the song by Johnny Mercer, something’s gotta give.
  — Stephen Buck, STAT, 21 Nov. 2023
• To paraphrase Julie Andrews and the Muppets: The springtime cometh for the housing market.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024