Sentence examples for figures of something from inspiring English sources

Sarah Lucas is also at her best here, in a quasi-classical phase of not-quite figures – of something like limbs, in fact.

I can almost see a figure of something otherworldly – a kind of mythical monster or spirit god – emerge from the smoky formation.

She said: "The council was meant to be repaying some reserves it took out in earlier years and it's decided not to do that so there is already a figure of something like £30m that will have to be found next year to fund that transfer from reserves.

Then I take off my clothes, close my eyes, and masturbate on to the heap of variously staring figures, thinking of something else entirely.

It also exemplified his skill at inhabiting figures of authority, something he would do many more times in his career.

Narine is such a threat that Australia might just sit on him and aim for figures of 4-0-20-1, somethatg like that.

He had become a figure of sympathy, something that — as the question about his temperament and his answer, however joking, suggest — would have seemed almost inconceivable just a few hours earlier..

He had become a figure of sympathy, something that — as the question about his temperament and his answer, however joking, suggest — would have seemed almost inconceivable just a few hours earlier.

For example, the gate duration can be included in the figure of merit, something that generally is not straightforward in gradient-based methods [46].

The triangular positioning of three figures became something of a vogue in prints of the mid-1790s.

Bresnan returned figures of 10-2-16-1 at something like full tilt on the opening day of a friendly against Lancashire at Headingley, his first match action since taking four for 45 in England's seven-wicket victory over India in Dharamsala on 27 January.