Sentence examples for flocks of children from inspiring English sources
As the resurrected Rwandans regrouped center stage, flocks of children joined them, and the music soared.
NEW ORLEANS — In other parts of New Orleans, school bands have spent recent weeks marching up and down narrow neighborhood streets, often followed by flocks of children.
Families tend to have flocks of children, and mothers need ways to amuse them when the fathers are at synagogue or study hall and when the parents take their customary Sabbath naps.
It offered the placid beauty that has endeared Indonesia to visitors: files of men in robes and skullcaps trooping toward their mosques, flocks of children heading to school in the early morning with their snacks of sugar cane, groups of women waiting patiently by the roadside for transportation with huge pots and bundles balanced on their heads.
Down the hill from the academic buildings is a residential area called Yeshiva Lane, where modestly dressed women with head coverings supervise flocks of children outside the six-bedroom town houses and three-bedroom apartments, built for faculty and graduate students.
"It's like the animal world," Ms. O'Brien, 56, said today as she waved a flock of children across 11th Street.
Bred to fly, a flock of children has to track down its parents, rescue one of its own and save the world.
Yet nowadays, the soloists in this act are better than they were in Balanchine's day, and a flock of children onstage as tiny bell ringers insures a torrent of applause.
8. George W. Bush's first Supreme Court nomination will be (a) Senator Orrin Hatch; (b) Judge Laurence Silberman; (c) Judge Emilio Garza of San Antonio; (d) a female Asian-American strict constructionist, preferably from Florida, with a whole flock of children; (e) the demonstrably persuasive constitutionalist Ted Olson.
In a blur of phone calls and furniture moving, it was done: Dad had a hospital bed, an oxygen tank and a flock of children and grandchildren to do what we could.
(I have never understood, by the way, why strangers assume a child with no hair is a boy. It defies logic. But then again, I'm five feet tall and people usually guess I'm 15, despite my flock of children).
