Sentence examples for a lone fly from inspiring English sources

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On entering, you are greeted by an illuminated Exit sign, which, judging from a buzzing from within, has trapped a lone fly.

Also in the ball park (and at Gagosian) are the mini-wall-installation piece "Vertical Column," which suggests a celestial ladder, and "Memento Mori," a postage-stamp-size film of a lone fly buzzing in front of an immense building facade, like a soul trying to get into heaven.

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Downstream, two spin-fishermen cast metal lures to the far bank while a lone fly-angler worked a nymph behind a submerged boulder.

These things give the speaker the nerve to write down his poem – "thoughts sung not for fame" – taking an example from another careful observation: "[b]irds, singing lone, fly silent past a crowd".

Their saga is symbolized by the birds, who have three cameos: in the first, a pair of pigeons flies across the stage in a rush of avian joie de vivre; in the second, a lone pigeon flies out of the loft; and in the third, a pigeon perches on the man's shoulder as he pirouettes toward his love.

It features a lone figure flying through the window of Lord Justice Leveson's courtroom.

As the boat bobbed on the water, I watched as a lone gull flew overhead.

They show a picture of a kitten desperately grasping a tree branch with a caption like, "Hang in there, baby," or a lone eagle flying above the countryside, with the words "Dare to soar".

A luminous moat of rainwater, a swarm of gulls following a seeder around a loamy field, a glimpse of rain two or three mountains away, even a lone oystercatcher flying overhead: any of these could make Isserley half forget what she was on the road for.

In some images a lone bird flies overhead, among boldly crisscrossing power lines or, in one photograph that calls to mind the crystalline industrial work of Margaret Bourke-White, among a loose clutch of thick black lines against a sky that changes in color from beige to blue.

After years of unrelenting practice, Yue is able to spot a lone goose flying off in the distance and two cicadas on a tree far into the forest.

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