Sentence examples for acts like lead from inspiring English sources
South Bronx residents are not "aware of mercury as an environmental problem unto itself, though they are highly aware of lead, and they understand when you explain that mercury acts like lead in the body," says Strelnick.
(Of course, those who act like sponges and absorb all the influence personally are apt to drive themselves crazy!) And those who block out all influence —who act like lead to x-rays — are apt to detach their units from reality (and so dry up the sources of external support).
Life signs: Superconducting electrodes (pink) act like leads of an electrocardiogram, measuring the electrical activity of an individual yeast cell (yellow blob).
Garrulous and endlessly gesticulating, these days he acts like the lead character in the musical "The Most Happy Fella," greeting his customers as if they were long-lost relations.
Over the 30 years since the passage of the federal Clean Air Act, pollutants like lead, carbon monoxide and especially the gritty black soot that was long one of the region's most hallowed, if hated, symbols, have all sharply declined.
We (in the US) need to change in important ways, and hopefully we will help lead rather than act like a lead weight.
The city says he attended EDC meetings on the project and acted like the lead representative of the studio.
There are concerns a new type of legal high, which acts like heroin, could lead to more deaths in the UK.
Ertegun's careful nurturing of acts like Ray Charles and Led Zeppelin is often cited as evidence of the kind of patient temperament now lacking at major labels.
A device that acts like a two-lead EKG is also available.
