Sentence examples for a blimp of a from inspiring English sources
"You hungry?" a blimp of a female wrapped in numerous shawls inquired of the poor painter.
Made up to resemble a threadbare Santa Claus with a blimp of a prosthetic belly and a snowy beard, Mr. Kline looks like the most traditional Falstaff imaginable.
Next we see her in 1929, at 22 — or 19 by her count; she changed her birth year to 1910 to coincide with the beginning of the Mexican Revolution — as the bride of the muralist and fellow revolutionary Diego Rivera, a baby-faced blimp of a man more than 20 years her senior.
Thomas Harris published "Black Sunday," in 1975; in the novel, secular Palestinian terrorists collaborate with a disgruntled American veteran of the Vietnam War to strike a Super Bowl by turning a blimp into a weapon of mass destruction.
"I remember there being TV cameras on me, a blimp for a portion of the race.
More than a dozen men on the ground are needed to take care of a blimp, and a pressure watch has to be kept twenty-four-hours a day.
More of a blimp than a wimp: One hundred and fifty independent contractors ran Kaplan centers as they pleased.
Propped up on a pair of stilts as it faces north, Piano's theater looks less like a blimp or an update of Becket than a snub-nosed helmet — or a sleek, giant albino Pac-Man gobbling up the red carpet that stretches north beneath it toward 6th Street.
To me he looked like he's always looked, like he's looked since his debut season, back when I first fell in love with his antics: all bright-eyed and symmetrical-faced, fed on genetically modified corn, with the swollen, hairless torso of the aspiring professional wrestler he happened to be and a smile you could spot as Midwestern American in a blimp shot of a soccer stadium.
Remember when Aphex Twin teased his return from the shadows a few years ago with a blimp and graffiti of his logo?
