Sentence examples for a third figure from inspiring English sources

Watching over them is a third figure (Sacha Pitoëff), as menacing as a Hitchcock hoodlum.

A third figure in the gang had left the Vår bar shortly before the shooting took place.

A third figure - a narrator husband, perhaps - or the end of the holiday intervenes to halt the expected denouement.

A third figure often hovers around duets, suggesting three's a crowd but doing nothing to justify the distraction.

Meanwhile, on the parking-lot screen, a third figure, a girl, got out of the car alone and looked warily around, trying to get her bearings.

Trawling through microfilm of the police investigation, I found further photographs of Campbell with a third figure, standing centre-stage in the Ambassador hotel hours before the shooting.

You might think so, given the stories posted recently about a new paper suggesting that light travels a bit more slowly than the 186,000-miles-a-second figure that's familiar to generations of science geeks.

Personnel numbers in some frontline British army units are down by as much as a third, figures show, prompting serious concerns about their readiness for action.

At this moment, a second figure is seen in the background.

Theophrastus is reported to have added to the first figure of the syllogism the five moods that others later classified under a fourth figure.

For example, the second figure syllogism can be reduced to a first figure syllogism by simply converting the first premise to the equivalent "No B is A".