Sentence examples for blobs of mercury from inspiring English sources

"A couple of blobs of mercury fall through the floorboards and evaporate slowly over the years.

The icons resemble blobs of mercury, and this image suggests that the ancients understood the tissue of space-time better than we do.

In one of those speculative reports full of foreboding about our urban future, UN-Habitat has predicted that this century metropolises will start joining up like blobs of mercury, crossing international borders to form urban mega-regions.

In the background the roaring trucks of a silver-mining corporation tear up and down the dusty mountain roads; in the foreground gleaming blobs of mercury are gathered by the villagers like jewels to be treasured.

Alternately skittish and sly, crude and clever, it is as hard to pin down as a blob of mercury.

He is wonderful on memory: "Whenever he tried to capture a very recent past… it was like trying to pick up a blob of mercury.

Senator Bob Graham compared the new, decentralized Al Qaeda to a blob of mercury that "you slam your fist into and it suddenly bursts into a hundred small pieces".

Postmodernism is almost impossible to pin down; like a blob of mercury, it slips away under the slightest pressure, only to pop up again in original form.

The scholar Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, author of "Becoming Dickens," has argued that trying to pin down that novelist "is like putting your thumb on a blob of mercury," while the biographer Peter Ackroyd wrote of "the essential strangeness of the man".

I can attest that in the movie, a couple of grams of antimatter looks like a blob of mercury escaped from a thermometer, much as Brown described it the book.

Street: Trying to figure out who Obama is, is like trying to nail down a blob of mercury.