Sentence examples for dull glass from inspiring English sources

In Another Night Before Christmas, the Christmas tree poses, 'flirting in flickers of crimson and green,/ Against the dull glass of the mute TV screen.' There are 'snow duveted cars' in the street, and in the sky, 'aeroplanes sped to the east and the west/ Like a pulled Christmas cracker.' Despite these 21st-century touches, it stays faithful to the original in both form and spirit.

The building burst on to the scene at a time when dull mirror-glass modernism was in vogue, standing out against California's conservative architectural culture of anonymous corporate blocks.

They are just another opportunity to network so can be dull, but a glass of champagne always helps!

'We've taken these dull bands of glass and concrete and peeled them off the building,' says Heatherwick.

The Strong Museum, which has plans to become one of the largest children's museums in the country, has already transformed itself from a dull warren of glass display cases into a lively, family-oriented interactive educational center.

"Quarry, Lumberton" (1918) is a magnificent picture, although a layer of protective glass dulls the delicate effects of late afternoon light captured in the work.

In the polished glass the dull walls seemed brighter, the bedroom door a richer brown.

Heat haze dissolved the distant far bank; the river's surface was the dull green of sea glass.