well-known passage
Frequency: 6.16.0 per million words
a widely recognized extract from a book or speech
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Examples (10)
- The speaker quoted a well-known passage from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- Many students can recite this well-known passage from memory.
- The opening of the novel features a well-known passage about the nature of time.
- He chose a well-known passage from the Bible to read at the wedding.
- The author often refers to this well-known passage in her later works.
- The textbook includes a well-known passage from Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech.
- It is a well-known passage that illustrates the author's descriptive style.
- During the lecture, the professor analyzed a well-known passage from the Federalist Papers.
- The poet is often remembered for one particularly well-known passage.
- Can you translate this well-known passage into French?