Sentence examples for is like counting from inspiring English sources

It is like counting beans".

It is like counting sheep.

Others point out that counting on budget surpluses to pay for tax cuts is like counting on the blizzard that never arrived in Washington this week.

Gauging its spread is like counting the rings in the core of a tree: if it looks as if he has broken it one more time, you know you're catching something newish.

Saatchi, 70, whose marriage to the TV chef fell apart after the multi-millionaire art collector was pictured with his hand on her throat in a central London restaurant, wrote to the Spectator over comments by its columnist Taki, 77, that "expecting a pornographer to have a heart is like counting upon Charles Saatchi to act like a gentleman".

The way Hevesi does the math is like counting strikes, but not balls.

"Mr. Shaw said that Mr. London reassured him that there was no reason for concern, and explained that insider trading was like counting cards at a casino in Las Vegas," the government's complaint said.

Counting up the assailants that Henry and Jimmy dispatch to the beyond would be like counting flies in a slaughterhouse, and the movie depicts their deaths with a comparable indifference — usually with a bloody splat, except when some special grotesquery of a shattered brainpan or a hacked carotid proves unavoidable or irresistible.

It would be like counting up the least visible bits of a perceptible object.

That would be like counting all the stars in the sky or Wilt Chamberlain's sexual partners.

Counting cars in a procession is dangerous because it's like counting the days till your own death.