Sentence examples for left the well from inspiring English sources

As he left the well of the courtroom, Mr. McCaffrey, wearing a lime-green V-neck sweater, a dark red tie and black slacks, cracked a timid smile.

THE NEWS In the weeks before the fatal April 20 explosion and fire on a drilling rig that left the well gushing out of control, some pieces of equipment were in poor condition, others had gone uninspected for years, and workers were worried about unsafe practices but were afraid to speak up, according to confidential reports to Transocean, the owner of the rig that BP leased.

"It's BP's position that using the industry standard material-balance equation, that the amount of oil that left the well was 3.26 million stock-tank barrels," Brock said.

Three more efforts to plug the well were made in November, with increasing amounts of backwash and scouring along the wellhead itself that left the well jutting out of a deep hole, without surface support, according to interviews, descriptions contained in agency records and company statements.

Mr. Panetta never left the well-fortified base.

The innovative Kiwis have left the well-heeled defender, Oracle Team USA, so far behind that its star skipper is considering stepping aside.

In fact, they argue, he has left the well-known "revolving door" in Washington — through which people pass from government to the private sector or the other way around — open even wider than ever.

In October 2008, she was appointed assistant medical director of private healthcare firm Bupa but left the well-paid position at the end of last year in order to travel to the war zone.

A proud graduate of St. John's College (now known as University), Don took a job in the mailroom of the William Morris Agency in 1952 and by the time he left the well-known agency in 1959, he had been an agent there for four years.

You can imagine that, having just left the well-oiled modern-art machine of the New York City Ballet, Hubbe must have looked around at the somewhat staid Old-Europe Danish troupe and thought, if some companies revel in decorative and insubstantial fluff, this was not going to be one of them.

(He was set up at a drawing table in Santa's Workshop, but that afternoon he announced that the atmosphere was too distracting for serious work, and left; the well-known British designer Hardy Amies was finally chosen to design the costumes).