Sentence examples for aimed like from inspiring English sources

But its true recipients, those against whom the book was aimed like a gun were they, the Germans.

So, too, does Picasso and Modern British Art at Tate Britain, aimed, like the Courtauld's show, at splicing its subject to a Continental mainstream.

"And finally between Peterborough and London when you hurtle on, you felt the whole thing was being aimed like a bullet – at the heart of things, you know.

Splat is perfectly aimed, like a custard pie, at the centre of the canvas where it drips with the sticky raspberry drool of a melting ice-lolly.

O.K. so this is sort of obvious because this show is aimed like a laser at my very particular demographic but I am going to recommend the new Netflix show "Russian Doll," with the sublime Natasha Lyonne.

When Prado finally asked Birdstone to go, the colt unleashed a smooth paddlewheel stride that Prado aimed like a boat captain to the widest part of the river, the middle of the track.

You may say that the party aims, like all such parties, to keep the well off well off.

Although that doesn't matter to Brüno, it matters a lot to "Brüno," which aims, like "Borat," to cut a chastening swath.

She aims, like Gill, to be provocative, typically wondering publicly whether one of Zoffany's paintings at the current Royal Academy show depicts three condoms hanging from a shelf.

At one table, a player confident from an uncharacteristic six-shot streak advised his opponent to close one eye when aiming—"like a pirate!" someone added.

And, on the evidence of today's first edition from 9.15-11am, Victoria Derbyshire is aiming, like Kyle, to present extremities of human experience, although with sympathy rather than prurience: a folk-show rather than a freak-show.