Sentence examples for found ourselves pressed from inspiring English sources

Harry Crews and I had won awards at the American Academy and found ourselves pressed against the wall of a large room staring across substantial space at a large collegial group of Northeastern writers who seemed to know their way around the place.

Nor, on the crush of an early-morning tube train, can we help, in spite of ourselves, from experiencing a frisson of unease whenever we find ourselves pressed up against a young British Asian carrying a bulky rucksack.

And, clearly, it makes no sense to go from a White House that consulted no one with Bush and Cheney doubling as the Lone Ranger and Tonto for the past eight years to one that is Who's Who of domestic, and foreign, experts, and that can stand in as a small army if we find ourselves hard pressed for forces in Afghanistan.

As the editors of T were sending this issue to press, we found ourselves thinking about the idea of women's beauty that runs through its pages.

"We could find ourselves without an investigative press; without fair-minded judges; without physicians who prescribe what is appropriate to each patient.

At Free Press, we often find ourselves going up against big phone and cable companies like Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Verizon and AT&T.

Journalists with medical experience found themselves pressed into performing surgery, often with the cameras rolling.

He is found, back pressed to an oak tree, shoes filled with blood.

Flower found pressed on pages 158-159.

Flower found pressed on pages 138-139.

(Leaves from New England trees were found pressed between its pages a century later).