Sentence examples for as a sock from inspiring English sources

It's humor that's about as contemporary as a sock hop, as edgy as an Anne Geddes photo.

The "lane", skinny as a sock in Lily Cole's underwear drawer, threads behind cottages to a turning circle.

Another military analyst, the report said, told investigators that the outreach program's intent "was to move everyone's mouth on TV as a sock puppet".

Today a chorus of racial realists, neo-patriots, clash of civilisation-ists and practitioners of joined-up thinking thrill at being able to use expurgated Enoch as a sock puppet with which to enact their own anxieties about swamping, security, failed multiculture, social cohesion and home-grown terrorism.

Mr. Egazarian recalled the time a few decades ago when the highway was lined with motels, shops and restaurants, luring travelers to such attractions as a "sock hop," where roller-skating waitresses served burgers on trays they hooked to car windows.

In the final pages of "American Wife," which chronicle these developments, it's clear that Ms. Sittenfeld has stopped channeling the thoughts and feelings of a character she has so meticulously created and instead begun using that heroine as a sock puppet for her own views on the unhappy tenure of the Bush administration.

Those injuries can be a result of something as simple as leaving a sock in a shoe, but the patient won't be aware of what's going on, Ma said.

Prick the inner membrane of a rabbit kidney with your thumbnail and it will slip away as easily as a silk sock.

The narrator, Jin-man, is equipped with a literal mind and a disconcerting lack of curiosity, and lives at "the institution," a disreputable mental ward that doubles as a sock-packaging plant.

Mr. Polanski is out to cross "Rosemary's Baby" with his saucy spoof "The Fearless Vampire Killers," but this movie is about as scary as a sock-puppet re-enactment of "The Blair Witch Project," and not nearly as funny (Mitchell).

Trying for both fright and satire, Roman Polanski's film "is about as scary as a sock-puppet re-enactment of 'The Blair Witch Project,' and not nearly as funny" (Mitchell).