Sentence examples for figures away from inspiring English sources

The dolls may represent a regression, a cultural crutch leaned on by people who never quite understood why they had to put their Star Wars figures away.

The ranks of those spared by rising joblessness continue to shrink and retreat northwards.One might normally explain these figures away as the actions of a central bank dangerously obsessed with inflation.

Here it is, becalmed on a stretch of burning blue water, carrying a bearded man who could be the Ancient Mariner or a hippy; and here it is again, near Trinidad, transporting five spectral figures away into the future, or is it the past?

When the narrator thinks about his affair with Justine, he thinks of "Nessim, who was watching us (though I did not know) as if through the wrong end of an enormous telescope: seeing our small figures away on the skyline of his own hopes and plans".

Comic Con is the living, breathing epicenter of a cultural shift that can actually validate one's inability to grow up and put your action figures away, read up on world events, get politically active etc.

Early "acid casualties" in the music scene, including Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac and Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd, helped to shift the focus of the respective bands of which they had been leading figures away from psychedelia.

Deaths among this sector bring the life expectancy down dramatically, but it does not explain the 54 figure away.

"I don't view this as us versus CNN," Mr. Ailes said, but he acknowledged that taking a prominent on-air figure away from CNN was "surely a negative for them, or they wouldn't have given her the offer they did".

Gerrard is a quiet, introspective figure away from the field, which may come as a surprise to those who have watched him drag teams behind him almost single-handedly on occasion - but this should never be mistaken for timidity.

This act displeased local neopagans, who pledged to perform rain magic to wash the figure away.

If you take a single figure away from that first child, it is possible, if not probable, that he or she won't even notice it's gone.