Sentence examples for as if stuck from inspiring English sources
The Labor faithful sat as if stuck to their seats.
She found him oblivious of normal obligations, as if stuck in a boyhood that never ended.
He lost his acceleration, sulked against his jockey's whip, and slowed as if stuck in a bog.
Mr. Shorter begins his solo with a strategic ungainliness, honking a single note as if stuck in traffic, before warming to an elaboration on the theme.
Playing directly into Christie's charge, Rubio repeated himself at least four times in the first hour of the debate, as if stuck on a loop.
But she makes the absurd claim that Constance's frequent absences from home during that period contributed to the marital split (as if sticking around would have made a difference).
Some of the pictures, according to a government brief, showed "soldiers pointing pistols or rifles at the heads of hooded and handcuffed detainees," a soldier who appears to be striking a detainee with the butt of a rifle, and a soldier holding a broom "as if sticking its end" into a prisoner's rectum.
Not only did it look like a movie – it was dressed in the visual language of several directors, from Hitchcock to Haneke to Kubrick, with the obligatory nods to creator Vince Gilligan's beloved westerns – it schooled cinema in the art of the full stop, wrapping up some 60 hours of storytelling as if sticking a bow on a 90-minute film.
Another image shows a soldier holding a broom as if "sticking its end into the rectum of a restrained detainee," Kagan said at the time, reading from a Pentagon report on the photographs.
Haggling over whether Barack Obama wears an American flag pen in his lapel -- and if not, what that means, as if sticking on some painted piece of metal demonstrates anyone's patriotism: Isn't this below our collective national intelligence and level of consciousness?
