Sentence examples for A stray object from inspiring English sources

The details and observations accrue in such a way — obliquely, melodiously — that they pull a reader forward in anticipation of the next unexpected leap: a stray object, an odd gesture, a bald declaration, or a rash act.

Any trash, rock, dead body (human or animal), piece of a tire, discolored dirt, or even a stray object mere inches in diameter could be hiding an I.E.D. You're likely to see military convoys, non-American coalition vehicles carrying British or Australian troops, and S.U.V.'s sporting bulletproof glass filled with buff civilian-looking dudes who work for some obscure security agency.

Films like Flashpoint go out to the video stores and, in the soft version (where the hard action is partly obscured by some stray object - a fireman's hat, say, or a fireman's boot), are sold to cable and to hotel chain franchises, and so on.

Imagine now that some stray object, the host's hairpiece, say, gummed the works, brought the belt to juddering halt and deposited the objects in a heap.

According to critic John Howard Reid, "He is forever backing into furniture or finding himself in a risqué position under a bed or wrestling with stray objects like falling books or enormous bed-springs".

These are not just stray objects, like the ones picked up by the bone-grubbers and mud-larks, but the props in a series of personal dramas.

To avoid another embarrassing last-minute discovery this time, NASA had technicians check the pad more thoroughly for tools and other stray objects.

It was hard not to stare at the vacant desks, the stray objects one programmer described as the "signs of lost people".

Precisely controlling when the roadway coils produce a magnetic field is important for safety reasons; if the field misses the car's receiving coils, it could attach to parts of the car or attract stray objects.

The storage section offers creatively sized drawer units, archival boxes and cute little cubic wooden shelves to hold all your stray objects so you can fantasize that your house will be as orderly as a Tokyo microhome.

It was limited to the service line, prone to error, and because it relied on beams of infrared light, Cyclops could be set off by insects or other stray objects.