Sentence examples for referring from high-quality English sources.

• (Reagan was in fact referring to Nicaraguan Contra fighters.)

• Stone said he was referring to a campaign targeting African-American voters.

• Note that “Socrates” is a referring expression, while “bachelor” is a nominal predicate.

• It's not clear who Trump is referring to when he talks about ownership by the "Radical Left".

• It's unclear what Cook is referring to when he says the company is "looking at other areas."

• Ahmed has used it repeatedly when referring to the Berom, coupled with calls for them to be “wiped out”.

• .,” she wrote, referring to an “investigational new drug” application, documents that accompany a clinical trial.

• And 3) as referring to the goal of creating an overarching understanding of the genomic diversity of the microbial realm.

Use referring in a sentence.

• More significantly, it is controversial whether standard meta-linguistic devices such as quotation are referring expressions.

• This was confirmed by the Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson, who said: "When the minister was referring to the lack of recommendations she was referring to the epidemiological review published on 2 June.

• Asked what he was referring to, Gove said he was referring to recommendations relating to the need for emergency legislation, to the risk of the NHS being overwhelmed and to the need to de-prioritise non-urgent operations.

• The term formalist views the expressions of mathematics, arithmetic for example, as meaningful, the singular terms as referring, but as referring to symbols such as themselves, rather than numbers, construed as entities distinct from symbols.

• Liturgical statements, song lyrics, and sermons frequently use trinitarian names (“Father”, “Son”, “Jesus”, “God”, etc.) as if they were interchangeable, co-referring terms, referring directly or indirectly (via a mode) to one and the same divine self.

• The fact that (1) is true while (4) is false does not show that substituting co-referring singular terms within the scope of attitude verbs is illegitimate; instead, for Frege, it shows that ‘Superman’ and ‘Clark’, as they occur in (1) and (4), are not co-referring.

• The messages show employees constantly pointing out differences between the two but appearing to take pride in convincing customers to buy the aircraft, often referring to the tactic as the "Jedi mind trick" and negatively referring to those who were convinced as "fools."

• It said the book — “Finding Freedom” — “contains a great deal of detailed information about (Meghan’s) personal life, including a number of passages referring to her relationship and communications with her father, and a section referring to the letter which is at the heart of this case.”

referring sentence examples

• The hospital industry will receive more than $100 billion in funding from the federal government to help create what Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, has been referring to as a "Marshall Plan," referring to the reconstruction aid the U.S. sent to Europe after World War II.

• “During this pandemic, people have been referring to intimacy and distancing a lot and referring to their neighbourhood as something they’re much closer to than they’re used to being,” he says, moving through the darkened gallery, in and out of the shifting shapes and colours of the light projections.

• The term graphene was introduced by chemists Hanns-Peter Boehm, Ralph Setton, and Eberhard Stumpp in 1986 as a combination of the word graphite, referring to carbon in its ordered crystalline form, and the suffix -ene, referring to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in which the carbon atoms form hexagonal, or six-sided, ring structures.

• Other highlights include Molekule’s position that its claims weren’t referring to the Molekule purifier itself—weren’t referring to the product it was selling—but rather were referring only to the underlying PECO “and other” technology.2 In fact, Molekule based many of its claims on tests of prototypes, or of the PECO filter alone (not of the actual purifier it has been selling since 2017).