Sentence examples for last grains from inspiring English sources

The crew flung him a lifeline, and with his last grains of energy Mbalo gripped it and held on until they tugged him to the deck.

Tears began to stream from those baby blues as our eyes met in a familiar, unspoken gaze, like the heavy silence that follows a flurry of unanswered hints between charades partners as the last grains of sand slip through the timer, moments before they forfeit the match to the Robertsons, those smug bastards.

When Mr. Demnig had finished the installation of the three stolpersteine and swept away the last grains of sand, Mr. Schwarzschild told his wife and German childhood friends, who had assembled around the plaques, that he wanted to say Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead.

Only at chapter's end does Arudpragasam reveal that all this haute literary deferring enacts the young couple's own unspoken interest in delaying the inevitable: "Dinesh licked the last grains of rice off his fingertips … aware that it was time now for them to spend their first night together".

Schumacher Society can explain it better than me but at the level I understand it, buying bulk brown rice looks cheaper at the checkout counter, but it will take up shelf space and probably become a science experiment before I get down to the last grains.

When the last grain of sand runs out, so does your eating time.

Every time she makes this, my brother and I eat every last grain and morsel.

Newby's book, "The Last Grain Race," launched a distinguished career in travel writing.

— but that will not stop you from scraping out every last grain.

The story of that journey would become his first book, "The Last Grain Race" (Houghton Mifflin), published in 1956.

Eric Newby, whose "The Last Grain Race" tells of his time aboard a Finnish square-rigger in 1938, may have been the last Briton apprenticed in working sail.