Sentence examples for as if picked from inspiring English sources

Then the lightshades began to sway a little, as if picked up by a breeze.

His enthusiasm, expressed in meandering, enumerative sentences, is intense and catching: "There were light, ethereal lavenders; some were mild and timid; others lush and overbearing; some tart, as if picked from the field and left to parch in large vats of vinegar; others were overwhelmingly sweet.

"As far back as 1971 John Arlott wrote: 'It may be true that English cricket as we know it is dying.' [Then] the fixture list was stable and ordered, like a good filing system – now matches are scattered everywhere as if picked up and carried by a gale".

Filled kegs are kept cold at the store, and so will not need to be chilled as long if picked up shortly before your event.

The eight dancers perform as if picking up where they left off.

Young males pair with other males, as if picking best friends for life.

Well, as if picking up a gauntlet thrown down by Ms. Coppola, the opening scene of Mr. Adjmi's "Marie Antoinette" features plates of colorful macaroons.

"Oh, we were just gonna eat that," Judith said, pointing to Max, as if picking out a lobster at a restaurant.

Instead, they'll begin discussing something that one of the friends Twittered that afternoon, as if picking up a conversation in the middle.

Then, as if picking up a baton in a relay race, Don Pedro begins to recount his and Ângela's tragic romance, and the scene and time shift once again, taking the tale deeper into the past.

Again and again in his quarter-of-a-century of interviews with the critic David Sylvester, Bacon returns to the Dutchman, worrying away at him as if picking at a scab, or at Rembrandt's scabrous paint.