Sentence examples for like a bud from inspiring English sources

First I saw the round bill, like a bud;.

What Ms. Burton called "exploding proportions" started as densely crafted pieces, but with the shape of a skirt more like a bud than a flower.

Not even Tom, just Bud, ever since he was a baby, apparently because an aunt of his had said that he looked just like a bud in his little green onesie.

By Henri Cole The New Yorker, February 27 , 2006P. 38 First I saw the round bill, like a bud; View Article Henri Cole teaches at Claremont McKenna College.

Compared with Titian's Venus of Urbino, she is like a bud, wrapped in its sheath, each petal folded so firmly as to give us the feeling of inflexible purpose.

Gayford describes the wallpaper behind her: "Huge white blossoms — dahlias, according to Vincent — sway on long thin stalks, tendrils and leaves twine against a background of thousands of small blue-green forms, each with a red dot in the middle, like a bud, or a pod, or a breast".

He sometimes acts like a budding pol with a gift for wisecracks and shtick.

At first glance, he looks more like a character from a D. H. Lawrence novel than like a budding Tennyson.

He looked less like a budding star than a college sophomore in search of a Hacky Sack game.

Alison ultimately went into law and not music, but I have a childhood image of her perched behind a keyboard playing like a budding Billy Joel.

A longtime prosecutor, he sometimes acts like a budding pol; his rhetoric leans more toward the wisecrack than toward the jeremiad.