Sentence examples for about as one from inspiring English sources

Writer-director Stephan Elliott's inimitable The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a story about (as one character famously puts it) "a cock in a frock on a rock".

It went about as one might expect.

Political leaders have to also talk about, as one Tory politician put it, "the whole way we live our lives".

The failure was most glaring on the subject of race, which was the ever-present subtext of everything about the case — "the elephant in the middle of the courtroom that no one wants to talk about," as one participant in the proceedings put it.

The lack of diversity is clearly a significant issue in Silicon Valley that needs to be addressed, and one that I care very deeply about as one of the few black faces within the industry.

How about, as one food blog recently put it, "explosive, oily, orange diarrhea"?

A pile of cold brown rice with a few chopped vegetables and some soy sauce or a mound of wheat berries with vinaigrette is about as one-dimensional as it gets.

She blames the California drought on "liberal environmentalists," which is about as uninformed as one can get about water in the West but fits seamlessly with GOP orthodoxy. .

It's about as shortsighted as one could get in terms of a brand".

The repartee is as about as gratifying as one can expect from a typical instant-messaging chat.

At $700 a month, it was about as cheap as one could hope to find in Manhattan.