Sentence examples for burning sheet from inspiring English sources

The prose is lean, swift, and — in Hilary Kilpatrick's translation — filled with phrases of startling rightness: "The lorry, a small world, black as night, made its way across the desert like a heavy drop of oil on a burning sheet of tin"; or, even better, "The speedometer leapt forward like a white dog tied to a tent peg".

The men hit her 16-year-old daughter, Charlotte, several times with a musket, set fire to the house, and tried to wrap Charlotte's friend Elizabeth Floyd in a burning sheet.

It is illustrated that the clinging of burning thermoplastic sheet may be mainly related with the softening temperatures and the ignition temperatures of the thermoplastics, as well as their viscosity coefficients.

Then, the predicted influence of the Lewis number is experimentally confirmed by burning paper sheets having different Lewis numbers.

The aluminum foil is not absolutely necessary, but it will help to prevent the baking sheet from burning or becoming slimy.

"Burning schools, burning markets.

"The important thing about burning a hole in that sheet," he recalls, "was that it opened up a new view across the Thames of St Paul's cathedral.

We do not see death the way people in other centuries saw it all the time – a mother in childbirth in a four-poster mahogany bed, a baby carried down the hall in a sheet, a child burning up with scarlet fever.

Its services include; bean bar and tube cutting, bending, forming and shaping, coil and flat roll processing, machining and manufacturing, plate and sheet cutting and burning, and special services.

Since it did not exist Arm briefly considered making a fake one by writing down the lyrics, crumpling the sheet, and then burning the edges the band instead donated Turner's old Big Muff pedals.

This will prevent the mushrooms from burning or sticking to the sheet.