Sample Sentences for
phase
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(editor-reviewed)

phase as in:  a critical phase

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It is a planned community that will be built in 5 phases.
phases = periods of time or stages during the development of something
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    We finished the first phase of the project.
    phase = a stage during the development of something
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    I really think you should consider my recommendations for phase two.  (source)
    phase = stage (of the development of something)
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    So began a kind of storytelling phase in the living room each night.  (source)
    phase = period of time
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    He always talked to me as if I were a child going through a difficult phase.  (source)
    phase = a period of time during someone's development
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    The desert nights were cold, and were becoming darker and darker as the phases of the moon passed.  (source)
    phases = periods of time or stages during the development of something
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    There was even a photo of him from his "hair replacement system" phase.  (source)
    phase = a period of time during the development of someone or something
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    I hadn't thought about that, how he'd seen me go through the many phases of growing up, both on and off screen.  (source)
    phases = stages (of the development of something)
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    I shall now read the names of children admitted into the second phase of the test.  (source)
    phase = stage (of something)
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    A student who couldn't pass all the requirements could be dropped completely from the course or, if instructors saw potential, rolled into the following course during any of the three phases of BUD/S.  (source)
    phases = stages (in the development of something)
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    Cato has finished the first phase of his tantrum and takes out his anger on the smoking remains by kicking open various containers.  (source)
    phase = a period of time during the development of something
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    If he wished, he could linger here, in comfort, and follow the entire hunt on through its swift phases, down alleys, across streets, over empty running avenues, crossing lots and playgrounds, with...  (source)
    phases = stages (of the development of something)
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    You'll have to do Phase Two.  (source)
    Phase = a stage in the development of something
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    Three phases follow: physical training, diving, land warfare.  (source)
    phases = stages (in the development of something)
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phase as in:  she's going through a phase

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When I was three, I went through a phase when I had an imaginary friend.
phase = a period of time when someone exhibits unusual behavior
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    When I was young, I went through a phase where I was deathly afraid of the dark.
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    My baby sister is in a phase where she doesn't like different foods to touch on her plate.
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    In later years, I sometimes wondered exactly what made Jem do it, what made him break the bonds of "You just be a gentleman, son," and the phase of self-conscious rectitude he had recently entered.  (source)
    phase = a period of time when someone exhibits a particular behavior
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    I'm just going through a phase right now.  (source)
    phase = a period of time when someone exhibits unusual behavior
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    Everybody goes through phases and all, don't they?  (source)
    phases = periods of time when someone exhibits unusual behavior
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    Lou Ann was going through a phase of cutting her own hair every other day.  (source)
    phase = a period of time when someone exhibits unusual behavior
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    I saw it when she first came to see me, and I guess I hoped it was a phase, but the more she came to visit, the worse she seemed to be feeling.  (source)
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    This was all a long time ago so I might have some of it wrong; but my memory of it is that my approaching Tommy that afternoon was part of a phase I was going through around that time—something to do with compulsively setting myself challenges—and I'd more or less forgotten all about it when Tommy stopped me a few days later.  (source)
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    But she had grown close to Beatrice, and she held out hope that Mandela was going through a phase, that he would behave and do what he was told, like his little brother.  (source)
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    But my poor child is going through a phase of exaltation, of abhorrence of the world.  (source)
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    Meanwhile, at home, Gretchen was going through this phase where she could not make it through an entire meal if Dad was at the table.  (source)
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    This was in part because Dad was going through a phase of his own wherein he couldn't stop pretending to be a cannibal.  (source)
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phase as in:  phased out over three years

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    The total increase in the minimum wage will be phased in over the next three years.
    phased = gradually [added]
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    But as time progressed the food dreams seemed to phase out and he dreamed of other things—of friends, of his parents (always of their worry, how they wanted to see him; sometimes that they were back together) and more and more of girls.  (source)
    phase = gradually decreased
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    It's not like when you phase out doing some routine chore but you're still aware that time has passed.  (source)
    phase = gradually eliminated
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    Twenty years ago, Dad's first act as king was to dissolve the castes, and the old system had been phased out slowly over my lifetime.  (source)
    phased = gradually eliminated
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    As many of you know, Captain Gunilla has been phasing in new equipment over the past few months.†  (source)
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    Afterward, Levy showed President Ernesto Zedillo how successful the experiment had been, and Zedillo bravely agreed to phase out food subsidies and launch the new program nationwide.  (source)
    phase = gradually end
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    The first night the banging hail on the tin roof phased in and out of my consciousness.  (source)
    phased = came gradually
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    The Army was phasing out the green and the white uniforms in favor of the blue.†  (source)
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    For almost a year as the SR-71 was being phased out, I had signed paperwork swearing to absolute secrecy about my involvement with the Stealth program, even though the aircraft had already been revealed to the public.  (source)
    phased = gradually eliminated
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    Nobody saw Cotter until the vendor appeared, black rays phasing from his hands.†  (source)
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    Instead, a farcaster essentially is just a crude hole ripped in space/time by a phased singularity.†  (source)
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    Phasing was very easy when I was centered like this.†  (source)
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    My husband always did call his electronic gadgets 'bricks' when they got phased out.†  (source)
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