Sentence examples for ascends like from inspiring English sources

Bono's voice often starts out low and humble, then ascends like the rock version of a classic Irish tenor as choruses proclaim the possibility of release.

Other thicker, more sculptural, Untitled works bear a striking formal similarity to objects that surround us in the interior spaces of our modern consumerism; a canvas of Venetian blinds lacquered in oil ascends like an escalator in flickering shutters of orange, pink, and black.

Usually, he ascends like a king in a power chair.

The picture's visceral shapes seem to ascend like putti in a Renaissance firmament.

For a while it seemed as if the Earls might ascend like Dion.

Beneath the surface of our lives churns an ocean of information, from whose depths answers and optimisations ascend like munificent kraken.

"The braes ascend like lofty wa's / The foaming stream deep-roarin' fa's / O'erhung wi' fragrant spreading shaws / The birks of Aberfeldy …" It could only be Robert Burns.

Those submarines arrived with stealth and ascended like shadows to darken the old horizon: their fearful weapons systems were American and suddenly so were we.

FOUR years ago this newspaper put on its cover a picture of the statue of Christ the Redeemer ascending like a rocket from Rio de Janeiro's Corcovado mountain, under the rubric "Brazil takes off".

Likewise, at the southern end of the range, sits Paklenica national park, with its deep limestone canyons and steep sheets of rock, up which I watched more nimble folk than myself ascend like wee fluorescent spiders.

Yet while all eyes were focused on Mrs Murdoch trash-talking, demanding a bout with Vitali Klitschko and claiming David Haye is "ducking me like a junkyard bitch", the value of Stewart Downing, which has ascended like a lark at morning-tide to the accompanying tuneful chirrup of cash registers, was causing a major shake-up in the UK banking industry.