Sentence examples for a book figure from inspiring English sources

"It sounds like these deficits are a book figure representing all their memberships," he said.

Trying to write a book? Figure out what you need to do, how long it might take, the process that goes along with it, and anything else you might have to do.

A guy reading a book, figuring out his next move.

On these two types of surface, Schnabel might mix an image appropriated from Oskar Kokoschka or Caravaggio with a comic book figure and a pair of real antlers.

Hollywood, working with Marvel Comics, is currently giving us a surfeit of these caped crusaders with camp costumes and special powers, the latest being the deadly dull Captain America, originally created as a comic book figure in 1941.

Quantitative literacy the knowledge and skills required to apply arithmetic operations, either alone or sequentially, to complete tasks embedded in printed materials, such as balancing a check book, figuring out a tip, completing an order form, or determining the amount of interest on a loan from an advertisement.

The same is true of Mr. Smith's adenoidal Gordon, who emerges as a warped variation on an "Archie" comic book figure.

He's not a comic-book figure with superpowers, a cute animal with a human voice or an enterprising boy wizard.

Nancy and her husband wrote and published a book on figure skating pins in 1986.

Cohen, 29, is an undergraduate at Columbia University, where she is studying financial economics; Hughes, 27, a Yale graduate, is writing a book about figure skating; Cheek, who just graduated from Princeton University, has started a sports-related Web site, DailyHouse.com; and Lipinski recently relocated from Los Angeles, where she was a TV commentator for figure skating.

Never mind that Shizuku is a comic-book figure, the hero of a manga series, "The Drops of the Gods," created and written by a middle-aged Japanese sister-and-brother team.