Sentence examples for bag blowing from inspiring English sources

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(Think of that scene in American Beauty where Ricky films a plastic bag blowing in the wind).

I should add that the most beautiful sequence in the film is several minutes of a plastic bag blowing in the breeze.

Will a grownup and balding Wes Bentley, working in insurance, admit that his video of a plastic bag blowing in the wind really was fantastically pretentious and annoying?

Seven years ago, he said, employees were imitating a video showing that a cork pushed into an empty bottle can be retrieved by inserting a plastic grocery bag, blowing until it surrounds the cork, and drawing it out.

Every camera movement, nearly every bit of incidental business — a plastic bag blowing along a dark, empty street like a tumbleweed; a pigeon fluttering into the frame — was blocked out, controlled, adjusted, repeated.

In a place of symbolism, that of a plastic bag blowing in the wind, a blue dress and a young mother with a bullet wound to the head is the first among them.

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Sylvia's father fished an inflatable ball out of his bag, blew it up and tossed it to Streett.

As a plastic bag blows through the dreary intersection like suburban sagebrush, my eyes glaze over, and I recite my daily mantra: "I'm not here.

Like his technique, his subjects — including, in the current show, big feet, rear ends and a plastic bag blown against a chain-link fence — take full account of the cheap disposability of figurative images in the internet age.

The ground is littered with empty water bottles and small pink or blue plastic bags blowing in the late autumn wind.

He talks slowly, pursuing ideas like they're paper bags, blowing down the street, only coming to a conclusion once he has grabbed them.

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