Sentence examples for a familiar object from inspiring English sources

Thus a bicycle is a familiar object.

It is arresting to see a familiar object assume an unfamiliar shape.

Each course was wrapped in clay that was sculptured into a familiar object.

Black babies were a familiar object of charity in Ireland long before Hollywood movie stars began snapping them up.

The "voice" of the play was recognisable and yet alien, like a familiar object viewed from an unusual angle.

Or consider a familiar object: the Thonet Model No. 14, a wooden dining chair designed by the German industrialist Michael Thonet during the mid-1800s.

Here a person is asked to come up with "new and useful" functions for a familiar object, like a brick, a pencil or a sheet of paper.

For the guilty knowledge test, this increased response can be a neurological signature of the unconscious recognition of a familiar object, event, or piece of information.

It is also the most ambitious example of Mr. Muniz's large photographic work, though not the first in which food has been used to depict a familiar object.

This is a special property of light itself, which is different from a familiar object like a brick," since light is a wave with no mass.

But this parsing of the intricate behavior of such a familiar object will find a ready audience among scientists who study neither atomic nor cosmic realms, but rather the middle ground between the very small and the very large.