Sentence examples for approaching like from inspiring English sources

LE MANS, FRANCE — It is pitch dark and the corner is approaching like a meteor toward a spaceship.

Frodo peering forward saw in the distance two great rocks approaching: like great pinnacles or pillars of stone they seemed.

Even though I could sense something approaching, like those elephants who feel the stealthy footfalls of Pygmy spear-toters far across savannas and flooded rivers.

Most absorbing of all is the moment on a dark beach, in the midst of Isabelle's deflowering, when she glances aside and sees herself approaching like a ghost, standing in sadness, and then disappearing.

Up to 10 points adrift in the polls and with 7 November now approaching like a high-speed train, Al Gore is really struggling, in the nation and here in his own backyard.

A shark tearing apart an elephant seal underwater, the seal's detached head and shoulders hanging from the shark's mouth; those army ants, like a living carpet in the jungle, devouring, in close-up, everything in their path; and, most amazing of all, a sandstorm in the Sahel, south of the Sahara, approaching like a red nuclear cloud and slowly blotting out the entire horizon.

The ELDR consists of an arrangement of thin, needle-shaped electrodes in front of the protected surface to repel approaching, like-charged lunar dust.

I'd never been approached like this before either.

Mr. Jackson proposed a "holistic" approach, like protest marches.

If you approach like, 'Oh, I'm hurting him!

Building gay history cannot and should not be approached like straight, normative history-building.