Sentence examples for description familiar from inspiring English sources

It was a description familiar to Karim Hassan.

In such a description, familiar laws may take unfamiliar forms, as in the case of the law of conservation of momentum in the example mentioned above.

If that description sounds familiar, then you may be able to relate to the coyness of this advert for the world's thinnest condom.

"Kholstomer" (written 1863; revised and published 1886; "Kholstomer: The Story of a Horse") has become famous for its dramatic use of a favourite Tolstoyan device, "defamiliarization"—that is, the description of familiar social practices from the "naive" perspective of an observer who does not take them for granted.

Truly definitive descriptions of familiar human artifacts are profoundly rare in fiction, but certainly this is one of them.

The book includes capsules about everyone on the team, and some descriptions are familiar — notably those of Adam Graves, who Fleury wrote was a "great guy, the ultimate team player," and Mike Richter ("quickest feet on a goalie I have ever seen").

If those descriptions ring familiar, you already have a pretty good understanding of influence.

Her book A House Is a House for Me is very popular with young readers because of its use of rhyme, song-like rhythms, and creative descriptions of familiar things: "A hill is a house for an ant, an ant.

"It's the race of truth," he said, using a familiar description.

In this work a metric is developed using a less familiar description of the crystallographic space which avoids this problem.

The juvenile national calendar, or, A familiar description of the U.S. government.