Sentence examples for figure sliding from inspiring English sources

When Brian Evenson was seventeen, he awoke one night to a figure sliding open the door to his room.

Boris Chait is a familiar figure at the Ice House, where for much of December he was anxiously keeping an eye on his daughter, who was then nine months pregnant and a wobbly figure sliding across the ice.

When Mr Burnside speaks of "something like the absence of ourselves / from our own lives", or of a figure "Sliding away in dreams she had rehearsed / for years", he could risk seeming whimsical, his fleeting images almost running away from themselves.

He appeared to challenge something, which to the General "looked like a whitish, female figure sliding towards the soldier".

That figure slid to 40percentt in early September.

A figure slid into the pool beside me.

Then: "Three, two, one — blast off!" The pink figure slides down the hill, pops off the jump and sails into the air.

A stone-faced figure slides into a man-machine, a two-wheeled wearable motorbike that takes on the form of its rider's body.

The higher values corresponded to increasing motion complexity and cross-shear, with the "figure 8 shape"sliding path having the greatest effect.

The Bank of England may sanction a further round of quantitative easing this week if service sector figures slide further this week.

Once the government had let the child poverty figures slide backwards last year, it looked as if they had decided to give up on Labour's eye-watering pledge of 1999 to halve child poverty by 2010.