Sentence examples for be a figure from inspiring English sources

It might equally be a figure.

This must be a figure of real weight and authority.

That doesn't mean Gandhi can't be a figure of fun.

"Perhaps O'Bannon will be a figure like that," McCann said.

Stephen Pound said the Speaker should be a figure of "dignified competence".

The woman could be a figure in a Pre-Raphaelite picture.

But the serious intellectual ceased to be a figure of cultural authority and esteem.

In any other state of the union, he'd be a figure of doom.

He wanted him to be a figure of pure energy, like the "Tyger, burning bright".

Tom Rath, despite an introspective streak, is supposed to be a figure of middle-class normalcy.

The small private investor tends to be a figure of disdain in the City.