Sentence examples for in marbles from inspiring English sources

"If you get used to not winning, even if it's in marbles, it translates into your attitude".

That inspiration may have come at an awful cost, she suggests in MARBLES: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me (Gotham, paper, $20), a memoir of her long tango, or wrestling match, with bipolar disorder.

Ira would sometimes watch her mesmerized face, as the cartoons flashed on the creamy screen of her skin, her eyes bright with reflected shapes caught there like holograms in marbles.

The main mineral in marbles is calcite, and this mineral's variation in hardness, light transmission, and other properties in divers directions has many practical consequences in preparing some marbles.

"In many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances beauty, as if imparting some special virtue of its own, as in marbles, japonicas, and pearls," Herman Melville wrote, in chapter forty-two of "Moby-Dick".

Over four years, Forney's psychiatrist, Karen, who features as one of the key characters in Marbles, tried her patient on different doses of various drugs, including lithium, clonazepam and lamotrigine; some had little or no effect, some had unpleasant side-effects, such as bringing her out in acne or lowering her blood count.

Davis and Ms. Bacall had become cast-in-marble sacred monsters by the time they played Margo.

We paid $245 for a junior suite, with a king bed and walk-in marble showers.

We should inscribe that in marble someplace.

It is not a piece in marble. . . .

Timber construction was superseded by construction in marble and stone.