Sentence examples for lid being from inspiring English sources
He is shipped to Louisiana like so much chattel; one shot shows the tarpaulin pulled off a cart in which the slaves are carried like the lid being pulled from a sardine tin.
From end of November onwards, the team, reduced to a skeleton staff over Christmas, begins to feel the lid being released from the pressure cooker and the busy steam of stress escaping in terms of the referrals that come in – though we do have a higher number of emergency referrals.
The scent of fresh pine wood wafting through the part of the store where the planks are stored, the popping sound of a metal lid being pried from a newly mixed can of paint, and the sight of all those healthy, green plants they sell outside.
They're wittering on about how great it is that the omerta that prevented the lid being blown off the wholesale use of drugs in cycling has finally been lifted, as if to suggest that they and their journalist buddies weren't as complicit as anyone else in maintaining it for the last 20 years.
What is it, exactly, this mysterious "Display Housing for Computing Device"? … a portable computer including a base and a lid, the lid being coupled to the base via a hinge, and wherein the housing corresponds to the housing of the lid or the housing of the base.
This is the first example of the lid being used to trap bugs.
The lid was clearly dislodged".
"The lid was on," Marsha said.
