Sentence examples for improbable position from inspiring English sources

They die in the same improbable position: sitting up, heads slumped, like discarded rag dolls.

The dancer who jumps highest, turns fastest or splits legs into the most physically improbable position is the best.

Indeed, Grisanti and the other three are in the improbable position of having grateful support both from the state G.O.P. leaders and from the Democratic governor.

Mr. Franks, who has held elective office for nearly 20 years, is in the improbable position of running an insurgent's campaign, scrambling for creative ways to gain free media exposure and goad Mr. Corzine into making rookie political mistakes.

Hoddle will reportedly receive a £500,000 bonus should Wolves repeat what Crystal Palace managed last season and discover the requisite 'bouncebackability' to win promotion to the Premiership from an improbable position at Christmas.

Furthermore, Hoffman's account states that it could fly, albeit with difficulty, and the first published illustration shows the bird on top of a tree, an improbable position for a flightless bird.

Djokovic spent the afternoon scrambling around the court, hitting forehands from improbable positions, deep into the court.

Gumby, his interviewer explained, was a television character made of green clay that later inspired a toy that could be bent into all sorts of improbable positions.

They learn about sex-on-the-beach contests, which involve couples simulating debilitatingly sandy intercourse in a multiplicity of improbable positions.

Directed by Wayne Harrison, with choreography by John O'Connell, "Désir" allows its attractive ensemble members to contort themselves — alone and in assorted combinations — into a variety of improbable positions that you probably should not try at home with your loved one.

But the accompanying image of a chess match features an illegal back-row pawn and improbable positions: uncastled kings, strangely placed knights and bishops, overly ambitious rooks and a curious shortage of pawns, all pointing to a dangerous game being played by amateurs who have set everything up all wrong.