Sentence examples for current bore from inspiring English sources

The current bore them swiftly southwards.

And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past".

Charles Boardman, Nottingham "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past".

i mean, *you* try rendering "boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past" in CG.

And so they beat on, wonks against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the passing time of governmental procedure.

But in reality they are like Scott Fitzgerald's "boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past".

Justice Scalia's views passionately felt and pungently expressed though they were now seem like so many boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The tableau of Obama at Dover evoked the last line of "The Great Gatsby:" "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past".

And perhaps most famous of all, the last line of The Great Gatsby: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past".

Its most strikingly poetic moment comes at the close: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past".