Sentence examples for a sort of crystal from inspiring English sources

The site positioned itself as a sort of crystal ball for major world events, aggregating individual opinions and signaling the popular wisdom on, for instance, presidential elections.

To tap a fiber optic cable you put a prism into the cable itself so it forms a sort-of crystal triangle.

A: Sort of.

True, there are players making a splash like Rocket Internet's Lazada, estimated to have 20percentt market share, but if China is any sort of crystal ball, that lead portends nothing.

The cat is a key character in that it serves as a sort of furry crystal ball through which Amanda receives her psychic fixes.

Working fast and on a low budget, he pulls together a few sprigs of experience and ideas and, inwardly observing the pattern that they make together, creates a sort of cinematic crystal structure that's compact, hard-edged, sharp-pointed, and sometimes dazzlingly intricate.

But even as there was little blueprint for what Amazon might mean in an already-gentrified metropolis, New Yorkers were looking westward to Seattle, Amazon's home-base, as a sort of eerie crystal ball.

Environmentalists tout a sort-of pagan eschatology.

Darker still, And Then You Kissed Me, a sort of inversion of the Crystals' He Hit Me (and It Felt Like a Kiss), has to be the tenderest song about an abusive relationship, with Persson at one point inflicting on herself what would come to be known as victim blaming: "It struck me that love is a sport, so I pushed you a little bit more".

Amongst critics, the 95-year-old urban research nonprofit the oldest of its kind in America is seen as a sort of master of ceremonies, crystal-balling development issues, and mega-projects in the tri-state region of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut years in advance.

Instead, the game comes with a creation crystal – a sort of plastic test tube with a glowing rock inside, that players can put on the portal.