Sentence examples for harmless as a from inspiring English sources

Some sound harmless as a stick of gum.

At one moment he looks as harmless as a sleeping cat.

"I'm so mad I could shoot Miss Crabtree!" may be harmless as a momentary temper outburst – but temper outbursts don't belong in the newspaper.

The rest of the year, the servers would still run, but the heat generated would be vented to the outside, as harmless as a clothes dryer's.

Whatever dreadful thing one has been made to expect at that moment, it is unlikely to be as harmless as a dog.

Even a setting as harmless as a backyard barbecue had the potential to become a scene of constant questioning or awkward silence.

The chipmunk's diet seems to be rather harmless as far as a gardener is concerned.

57 mins Uruguay win a free-kick on the left wing, but Varela's ball in is as harmless as an England spinner in India.

Under a microscope, it can look almost as harmless as an overgrowth of normal cells in the milk ducts or almost as sinister as invasive breast cancer.

Neither Bishen Bedi, nor Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, nor Abdul Qadir, nor Muttiah Muralitharan, nor Shane Warne had caused England's best batsmen such embarrassment on a surface as harmless as an empty pincushion.

Ronald K. Noble, secretary general of Interpol, has said that gambling on sports "might seem as harmless as placing a small bet on your favorite team".