Sample sentences for PARAPHRASE

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Definition

express the same message in different (or slightly different) words

I can't remember her exact words, but I can paraphrase what she said.

paraphrase = express in different words

Her words were too perfect to paraphrase, so I will quote.

paraphrase = express in different words

The italics used on this page indicate that the language from the referenced email is paraphrased, not directly quoted.
Tara Westover -- Educated

paraphrased = expressing the same message in different words

The italicized language in the description of the referenced exchange is paraphrased, not directly quoted.
Tara Westover -- Educated

paraphrased = expressing the same message in different words

The italicized language in the description of the referenced email exchange is paraphrased, not directly quoted.
Tara Westover -- Educated

paraphrased = expressing the same message in different words

The italicized language in the description of the referenced text exchange is paraphrased, not directly quoted.
Tara Westover -- Educated

paraphrased = expressing the same message in different words

To paraphrase Justice Hugo Black, I find no such provision in the Constitution – but perhaps I have an old copy.
In many places this poem is only a paraphrase of the Bible.
Marshall, H.E. -- English Literature For Boys And Girls
But then again, to paraphrase Boris, maybe I see a pattern because it's there.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
He was the only person she ever knew who could paraphrase three authors into one sentence and have them all make sense.
Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman
The theory of the transference of the will of the people to historic persons is merely a paraphrase—a restatement of the question in other words.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
O.C. Bible: a paraphrase with identical meaning.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
To paraphrase, age doth wither, as they say.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
I'm paraphrasing," he said easily, flipping his hand.
Sarah Dessen -- Along for the Ride
I'd come with my notebooks ready to answer his questions with quotations and paraphrases.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
That wasn't, to paraphrase Patrick earlier, what she had been going for.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
Mortenson wrapped up the evening by paraphrasing one of his favorite quotations from Mother Teresa.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
Remember, there are plenty of fish in the barn," he added in a rather unusual paraphrase of Cesar's advice.
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
He went on, paraphrasing, "When I was hungry, you fed me.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
Here, paraphrased, is Ootek's tale.
Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf

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