Sentence examples for figures real from inspiring English sources

Screen incarnations of well-known figures, real and imagined, generally seem to be getting younger.

By the state figures, real government G.D.P. across the country fell by 3.3 percent during the two years through 2012.

Then these G.I. Joe action figures, real American heroes, were giving children license to author scenarios based around violence before they could even read.

Sometimes the name seems random but some vessels are named after famous figures (real, literary or mythical), places, song titles or for family members.

In her National Book Award-winning story collection, "Ship Fever and Other Stories," Andrea Barrett shows her affinities for biology, 18th- and 19th-century settings, and scientific figures real and imagined — Carl Linnaeus, the 18th-century Swedish botanist, among them.

Riffing off "Christ's Entry into Jerusalem," the piece is teeming with Sumi ink drawings depicting figures real and imagined, past and present, from James Brown to Martin Luther King, Jr., Donald Trump to Frederick Douglass.

Some of them figure "real estate is a better place to put their money than the stock market," she said.

She had this amazing figure, real burlesque-looking, and had on a Mao jacket, tight, tight jeans, cowboy boots.

We figure Real Madrid is worth $1.3 billion.

"The public hasn't figured real estate out.

In the northeastern counties of the state, five-figure real estate tax bills are more the rule than the exception.