Sentence examples for figures of us from inspiring English sources

She writes as she sees life (I think) - she knows that our struggles and hopes make comic figures of us all and sometimes, quite often, turn us nasty.

Arthur Penn, who has died aged 88, was one of the major figures of US television, stage and film in the 1960s and 70s when the three disciplines actively encouraged experimentation, innovation and challenging subject matter.

Since he'd never seen one, he figured none of us had either".

Do you think it gave him a bad hangover once?" "They've figured more of us will be drinking cider on park benches soon so might as well tax us more while we're idling about," reasoned KenBarlow.

"Mike drives a cab and I work in a hospital, so we figured one of us could transfer to nights.

JFK may not have been the idealised figure many of us thought.

Soldiers were not remote figures to most of us; they were us.

Among the crowds and wild-eyed talking figures, the two of us drew close.

It's because somehow they managed to be large figures to most of us who watched them perform.

"We have some more months of bad inflation figures in front of us," Otmar Issing, the bank's chief economist, said on Tuesday.

And with so many senior community figures implicated, many of us are starting to wonder what will happen to the next generation of whites.