Sentence examples for a figure from from inspiring English sources

HE WAS a figure from another age.

"We need a figure from the US.

She came like a figure from the Elgin marbles.

"She sounds like a figure from another age".

Mr. Mao is a figure from outside the opera establishment.

Wormley is a figure from Whitman's journal, though he figures there only briefly.

A moneybags man patrols the action, whip in hand, like a figure from a Grosz cartoon.

This article was amended on 27 May 2015 to correct a figure from the IPCC report.

He said the decision to choose a figure from the art-world was long over due.

Foxxy Love, a fly detective who sleeps around, looks like a figure from "Scooby-Doo".

And it wasn't a Figure From The Past Who We're Retrospectively Ashamed Of Making Famous competition?