Refer in sentence

387 examples of Refer in a sentence

I like to refer to Johannes Kristjansson, the Icelandic reporter we invited to join the project, as the loneliest man in the world.

New types of conflicts have emerged, and I'll refer to those later.

Because every day when my daughter plays when she dresses up, she's learning stuff through a process that, in my own line of work, as a professor of media studies, we refer to as public pedagogy.

So those of us who were on Mars time would refer to ourselves as Martians, and everyone else as Earthlings.

All right, this is a slide from a talk I gave about intensive care units in Nigeria, and jokingly we refer to it as "Expensive Scare."

Halul is the pet's name for the Arabic female name, Hala, and is only really used to refer to really young girls.

Now, we no longer refer to African-Americans as "colored," but this long-standing joke about our perpetual lateness to church, to cookouts, to family events and even to our own funerals, remains.

Clients continued to hire me and refer me and recommend me, and I'm still here.

They refer to the movements as they exploit the ecological niches of the gradient as "threads."

This deliberate irony is an example of doublespeak, when words are used not to convey meaning but to undermine it, corrupting the very ideas they refer to.

In 1995, Betty Hart and Todd Risley published a study that found that working class families and those being served by welfare experience what we now refer to as the "30 million word gap."

As one UX designer told me, the only people who refer to their customers as "users" are drug dealers and technologists.

This is a balloon that we also refer to as a sculpture.

In the 1920s, these papers used the word "hustle" to refer to some kind of scam.

By the 1950s, they were using "side hustle" to refer to legitimate work, too.

So, I founded my research on the basis of a psychological process known as "habituation," or simply what we refer to as "getting used to it."

It will refer you directly to your congressperson, to your U.S. senator, to your governor where divestment legislation is pending.

Now, we just refer to them as our family.

So is synthetic biology, which I'll now refer to as "synbio."

They didn't have to remember everything in their head, they could have it out there in the world to see and refer to.

Geologists refer to the period that followed as the Great Oxidation Event.

But what makes this contrast feel even starker is when I pass by the building that those of us who work on the border unaffectionately refer to as the black hole.

So you refer the patient for hip replacement therapy.

Because when we are in what I refer to as Crazy Busy Mode, we are simply less capable of handling the busy.

If a combat veteran returns home and is diving for cover when he or she hears a car backfiring or can't leave their own home because of intense anxiety, then the responses to those cues, those memories, have become what we would refer to as maladaptive.

Because we can declare these memories, we refer to these as declarative memories.

I refer to organized crime.

The design process was really tough, almost like a struggle for survival, but gradually an idea evolved: this sort of idea of a rational tower that melts together with the surrounding city, sort of expanding the public space onto what we refer to as a Scandinavian version of the Spanish Steps in Rome, but sort of public on the outside, as well as on the inside, with the library.

And since we always refer to the project as The Mountain, we commissioned this Japanese Himalaya photographer to give us this beautiful photo of Mount Everest, making the entire building a 3,000 square meter artwork.

So, the Mountain is like our first built example of what we like to refer to as architectural alchemy.

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