Sentence examples for item around the from inspiring English sources

While constructing his lead item around the existence of these pictures, he's then forced to denounce them as being "not suitable for a family newspaper" and alters one of Altberg's answers so that the word "body" is substituted for "penis".

Aware that the Nike Air Jordan trainers worn by the basketball star Michael Jordan are a fetish item around the world, Brian Jungen, a young British Columbian of partly Northwest Coast Indian descent, has cleverly refashioned these trophy sneakers into ceremonial masks that strikingly suggest the artifacts produced by Northwest Coast tribes.

When Hilly has discovered an item she can lift, one of two things happens: she either carries that item around the store with her, or she begins taking multiple amounts of said item off the shelf and setting them on the floor next to her.

Wrap the item around the mattress you've added.

Ask him to hold your place in line while you grab something really quick (run and grab the nearest item around the corner).

When moving the item around, twist it and turn it to change the effect of the photocopy.

His family knows not to misplace certain items around the house, like his hairbrush, remote controls and couch pillows.

The congregation takes turns to lie face down on a dusty carpet and point their bodies at items around the altar - a conch shell, maracas, a giant root vegetable and finally to Mae Stella herself.

For a long time, we did have a few items around the house that he'd thought were brilliant, for example a record player for 45s — 33s, he thought, were going nowhere.

By correctly anticipating how the high-tech future would change the way we shop, they updated one of the most low-tech items around: the repository of snail mail, the trusty mailbox.

The problem: You're always doing damage control on big-ticket items around the house.