Sentence examples for familiar something from inspiring English sources

But if we are defining natural as something that feels familiar, something that happens all the time, then no.

This was a father, lost for a moment, comprehending the horror of what he was witnessing by recognising something familiar, something close to home.

Mr. Eklund's film may strike American viewers as both exotic and familiar, something that might also be said of Nicolas Schmerkin's "Logorama," the most striking of the animated nominees.

When it is firing on all cylinders, it feels like the perfect blend of the surprising and the familiar: something old, something new, something borrowed, and definitely something blue.

The details may differ but the general contour is strikingly familiar: something in our daily lives -- sunlight, cellphones, coffee, a commonly prescribed drug -- is implicated as a possible cause of cancer, strokes, heart attacks or other maladies.

Sometimes writers tell us something familiar — something that we already know, or that we should know — but they do it in such a creative and cleareyed way and with such force that we begin to see things differently independent of any new information.

It looks familiar, only something is not quite right.

It is utterly familiar, yet something most of us only eat on Shrove Tuesday.

"Are you familiar with something called CityTime?" Mr. Castello asked Mr. Bloomberg, provoking laughter throughout courtroom.

But in the spaces between the sedately familiar resides something glittering, defiant and avowedly queer.

To a sculpture of ripe peaches, which turns the familiar into something miraculous.