Sentence examples for lair like from inspiring English sources

"Locked in their lair, like wounded animals, the men in blue repulsed all Barça's attacks," says Miguel A Herguedas in El Mundo.

So who would live in a secret lair like this..? Location A very quiet corner of suburban Gotham which nobody ever drives past.

Described as a " '70s porno basement" by a manager, the room is outfitted with palm tree chinoiserie, British Invasion vinyl and political bumper stickers (nothing screams "orgy lair" like Pat Moynihan memorabilia).

Part two, The Desolation of Smaug, seemed to consist mainly of anatomically complicated elf-dwarf inter-species romance and an awful lot of Bilbo throwing himself around the dragon's lair like a kid in a Fort Knox soft play area.

But for now, its lair-like feel only adds to the appeal of catching an EDM, hip-hop, or metal show.

This lair-like compound is cleverly camouflaged beneath the lush green surroundings (much like these 5 other hidden homes), but its views of the unbelievably picturesque valley below are hardly compromised thanks to the floor-to-ceiling windows that wrap around the entire exposed facade.

The last time L.A. saw a sheriff's race like this, with no incumbent running and no single candidate so embraced by political kingmakers as to have a virtual lock on victory, this county's sheriff fought crime by raising posses and galloping after outlaws in rural lairs like the Hollywood Hills.

The drama is clearly laid out too in Stephen Langridge's spare production, for which designer Alison Chitty has created a bullring-like lair for the Minotaur himself, around which a crowd adds its chanted commentary to the killings.

He would be paraded around locked in a small cage like an animal in the zoo -- dragged from his lair, humiliated like Sadam Hussein -- interrogated, tortured, and drugged.

In the meeting for "Night at the Museum 3," Stiller nibbled a slice of cucumber and raised a general concern: the third-act battle in an underground lair "seems like such a huge set piece.

With ramshackle buildings, clammy-walled stone dungeons and clamorous dog cages dominated by a huge gnarled tree in the courtyard, Harris's creepy lair seemed like a cross between Follyfoot and compound in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.