Sentence examples for a fly in a from inspiring English sources

Compared to the whole atom, Rutherford said, the nucleus was like "a fly in a cathedral".

"After the candlelight and darkness in Sarajevo I was like a fly in a heaven of lights in Manhattan.

Steevens, considering his imprisonment and incubating illness, "what it is like to be a fly in a beer bottle".

On her way to the ward Margaret, 48, said she felt "like a fly in a spider web".

"I now know," mused the Mail's Steevens, considering his imprisonment and incubating illness, "what it is like to be a fly in a beer bottle".

At last, digital fantasy means something: we are not watching a dull-brained superhero banging off walls like a fly in a bottle; we are watching an animal with suddenly enhanced powers who still behaves recognizably like an animal.

When she moved to Alaska, in 1975, she lived in a "fly-in" — an area accessible only by plane.

"It's about as interesting and as difficult as it gets," Mr. Schnebly said, as Ms. Dominick stood 40 feet away from a pool and tried to land a fly in an area as large as a cocktail tray.

A flyer in a 1982 issue of Spectra, a magazine of the Texas Solar Energy Society, even referred to oil as "old solar energy".

The letter in question was one written by the writer to her broker in order to take a flyer in a company called Green Shoes.

She signed up as a Games Maker after picking up a flyer in a McDonald's, which sponsored the London volunteers.