Sentence examples for a small ray from inspiring English sources

January is the time of year when, for us gardeners, a small ray of hope breaks through the grey skies.

Reading about the newly formed American Majority Institute was like a small ray of light in a blighted landscape.

"In the horrifying story of his treatment, a small ray of light is that he was not abandoned by all of his colleagues at GCHQ.

The NCS is a small ray of sunshine in a very gloomy picture at the moment – it's not a replacement for focused youth services," he says.

Still, cosmologists are happy to find even a small ray of light shining on a problem that has left them feeling benighted.

Executives flew from around the country over the weekend, she said, and they decided they might be able to offer a small ray of light on a dark day.

It is a fairly small ray, not exceeding 35 cm in width, with a mostly smooth, oval pectoral fin disc, large protruding eyes, and a relatively short and thick tail with a deep fin fold underneath.

In a first step the catalyst bed was scanned with a small X-ray beam.

"What a life he has led," exulted Morgan Forster, who himself lived past ninety, "and how he has led it!" When he was still at work on "After the Deluge," Leonard Woolf suggested that "even a failure might bring some small ray of light or grain of knowledge," but it was on the last page of the last volume of his memoirs that he could say with sincerity, "There are other assets of old age.

One small ray of light is progress toward a target of gaining protected status for 17% of ecosystems on land, which is on track.

A miniature X-ray tube is a small X-ray generation device generally with a diameter of less than 10 mm [1 5].