He said the first appropriate phrase that came into his mind.

"I believe the appropriate phrase would be, 'How the mighty have fallen.'"

Either way, Matt set his jaw and dug back through twenty years of education for an appropriate phrase.

Perhaps time was too short to extract the appropriate phrases even with assistance.

That had been the very appropriate phrase used during the campaign.

The guide was learning English and had carefully prepared appropriate phrases.

Chivamba's had been, to use the only appropriate phrase, on the burst.

He met everybody, smiled a lot and uttered all the appropriate phrases in response to the compliments that were paid him.

He suggested a more appropriate phrase would be "it thinks."

She waved her hand as she searched for an appropriate phrase.