Sentence examples for as if forming from inspiring English sources

As she talks, Hidalgo gestures as if forming ideas with her hands, in a way one French journalist described as "like making pottery in the air".

The songs on "Fade" often well up out of studio ambience, as if forming themselves on the spot; close listening reveals sounds tucked almost subliminally into the mix.

I didn't even have the strength to close the curtains and, as I was falling asleep, I felt the rays of the alabaster moon caress my face as if forming a death mask.

Within the past few weeks, I've seen both John Eliot Gardiner and the jazzman John Surman do identical things at the conclusion of concerts they've conducted – remain with their baton aloft long after the final note has faded away, as if forming a barrier to premature applause, defying anyone to break the spell.

Astrocytes surround them with dense layers of processes as if forming miniature scars around them, perhaps to wall them off and act as neuroprotective barriers [ 55].

Reactive astrogliosis tends to be focal in AD such that reactive astrocytes are intimately associated with amyloid plaques or diffuse deposits of amyloid and surround them with dense layers of processes as if forming miniature scars around them (Fig.  7a), perhaps to wall them off and act as neuroprotective barriers.

The aperture was half an inch in diameter and as regular as if formed by a drill.

Giant's Causeway Visitor Centre, Heneghan Peng architects (3/1) Bursting out of the rolling hills on the coast of Northern Ireland, the Giant's Causeway visitor centre ruptures from the ground, as if formed by a great slippage of tectonic plates.

In the case of George Ohr, known as the "Mad Potter of Biloxi", nature has devolved from being a decorous bouquet to a swampy bayou, as if form has melted in the tropical heat.

Many of the spring/summer collections took a softer or more utilitarian approach and at the autumn/winter Milan shows, it felt as if form and function have been fully reconciled to produce grown up, sophisticated clothes without gratuitous novelty.

If drainage is a real problem, such as if puddles form easily after rainfall and don't quickly drain away, consider incorporating plenty of horticultural grit into the ground to improve drainage.