Sentence examples for driftwood in a from inspiring English sources

"Crocodiles," he ventured, pointing at what could have been driftwood in a lake.

Now fewer than 10 original Sandy Ground families remain, their wooden homes like driftwood in a sea of recently built town houses.

Some seem trivial (the rhyming of a teapot spout with the angle of a piece of driftwood in a Gauguin), if not crudely jokey (two unusually wide wooden chairs beneath two massive Renoir nudes).

This most often led to a terror-fuelled clinging on to the most hackneyed and superficial of elements, like drowning bodies clutching at any passing piece of driftwood in a desperate attempt to stay afloat.

If its convoluted language sometimes calls to mind another famous musical contract — it can be difficult to read all the discussions of the "party of the first part" without thinking of Groucho Marx's Otis B. Driftwood in "A Night at the Opera" — the document's enduring musical legacy makes it an object of fascination more than 120 years after it was signed.

A lady on a divan telling stories to a turbaned sultan; men with scimitars running down a dark and narrow street; a jinni issuing like a vast dark cloud from a flask; a prince in a pavilion guarded by lions; a veiled lady at the entrance to a shop; a young man on a flying carpet circling over a domed palace; a man clinging to driftwood in a stormy sea..

Mary Mendoza makes good use of driftwood in "Guardians," a totemic construction that could serve as a memorial to souls lost at sea.

On about 20 April they were cheered by the sight of a large piece of driftwood stuck in a floe, the first object from the outside world they had seen since Fram had entered the ice.

WAIMEA BAY, Hawaii — The world's best surfers are waiting for a once-in-a-generation wave here along the North Shore of Oahu, after dozens of them plunged into the churning waters on Monday, dodging rocks, reefs, and driftwood in waves rarely seen even in surf paradises like Hawaii — but still shy of the big one.

One year, a full-size horse made of driftwood stood in an orchard clearing among short grass and spring bulbs.

On the beach were pebbles and driftwood; in the sea were octopus; al fresco beach dining required a spear-gun and a box of matches.