Definition: 1. A stage in a process of change or development. 2. Any distinct time period in a sequence of events. 3. A particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle.
Use 'phase' in a sentence:
1. They said the present system of military conscription should be phased out.
2. The traffic lights were out of phase.
3. You might think from the foregoing that the French want to phase accents out. Not at all.
4. The Skills Programme is out of phase with the rest of the curriculum.
5. The water phase is sometimes affected by excessive fertilizers.
6. 'Have you ever been at all religious?' — 'No. I never passed through that phase.'
7. The clock, called Sleep Smart, measures your sleep cycle, and waits for you to be in your lightest phase of sleep before rousing you.
8. The election campaign has now entered its final, decisive phase.
9. The court has yet to issue formal indictments, and the proceedings remain in the pre-trial phase.
10. These materials turn from a solid into a liquid absorbing energy as they change phase.
11. Phase III, from March 1991 to March 1993, focused on the refinement and institutionalization of these activities.
12. When heated, these materials turned from a solid into a liquid absorbing energy as they change phase.
13. Most kids will go through a phase of being faddy about what they eat.
14. This kind of periodic orbit is only a phase in a comet's life.
15. For this reason, this phase should only occur after you have redesigned the process.
16. The first phase of the project was completed two months ahead of schedule.
17. If not, then transformations have to be performed in the mapping phase.
18. He proposed that only those countries which were willing and able should opt in to phase three.
19. Though still in prototype phase, the gloves seem to have impressed the experts.
20. The first phase of the project has been completed.
21. The redundancies will be phased over two years.
22. The building is in the design phase.
23. Closure of the hospitals was phased over a three-year period.
24. Subsidies to farmers will be phased out by next year.
25. In1958 work began upon the second phase of the project.
26. Each phase should be manageable within an hour or so of playing around.
27. If that one is called the land phase, then this has to be called the water phase, right?
28. The critical phase of that experiment will last three months.
29. The Health Secretary told Parliament that the reforms would be phased in over three years.
30. Should you pick only one friend from each phase of your life, or more than one?
31. This rule is an exception to the above rule of not setting mediation properties during this phase.
32. It is not easy to talk about the role of the mass media in the overwhelmingly significant phase in European history.
33. She's going through a difficult phase.
34. This autumn, 6000 residents will participate in the first phase of the project.
35. As for us, we've started using our plane time as a work-free zone, and thus time to dip into the recovery phase.
36. The agreement marks a new phase in international relations.
37. Every generation develops these habits at a certain age, but Millennials seem to be extending this phase of life as they postpone marriage.
38. The investigation has entered a new phase.
39. Today we enter the hottest phase of the election campaign.
40. His anxiety about the work was just a passing phase.
41. The new tax will be phased in over two years.
42. The phase of writing that is actually most important is revision.
43. Within each phase, you must achieve a major milestone via the execution of one or more micro iterations before the next phase can begin.
44. So begins another phase of the cycle.
45. We call all of this the land phase of the Phosphorus cycle.
46. Although using RAD during the assembly phase is a fairly common practice, many IT businesses are very specialized with only legacy systems.
47. McCarthy was asked to analyse the data from the first phase of trials of the vaccine.
48. The crisis is entering a crucial, critical phase.
49. They phased out my job in favor of a computer.
50. The wedding marked the beginning of a new phase in Emma's life.
51. The next phase of the operation will involve the deployment of more than 35,000 troops from a dozen countries.
