Sentence examples for as a figure from inspiring English sources

She emerges as a figure of almost unbearable loneliness.

He didn't mean it as a figure of speech.

The sculpture could be taken as a figure.

Where Philip does remain memorable is as a figure in the history of taste.

Her posture betrayed her teen-age training as a figure skater.

Strummer's name eventually entered local contemporary folklore as a figure in its music history.

Powell has been championed as a figure to be celebrated, not criticised.

As a figure of ravishing sadness, Mr. Leung's gentle newspaperman, Chow Mo Wan, has no equal.

She said she was using the word as a figure of speech.

By the mid-nineteen-fifties, Smith had emerged as a "figure of national importance".

I liked him as a figure of failure so I could borrow from him.