Sentence examples for like a captured from inspiring English sources

But when she takes his hand in public it squirms "like a captured maggot, trying to extract itself from hers without making it too obvious".

TUCSON - In the cavernous bowels of the University of Arizona's football stadium, Roger Angel's mirror furnace was spinning like a captured flying saucer at a stately five revolutions per minute.

Like a captured creature writhing in a tangle of ectoplasm, the 128-metre "concept yacht" is enveloped in a globular casing of interwoven sinews which frame big open holes – giving the ship a certain storm-damage chic.

I took over, put the wobbly pole on the target, pushed and turned the plastic, unknotted it from the tree crotch, and lowered it to the lawn on the end of the pole like a captured standard.

In fact, if he was foreign secretary, he would almost certainly have devised "three crucial tests" for war which, by their abstruse nature, nobody could understand, but which he felt compelled to repeat endlessly in response to every enquiry, like a captured soldier recites his name, rank and serial number.

Like a captured secret agent, the parent company can disavow the failed standalone app and move forward with its main app.

Kidnapping and murder are ordinarily state crimes, not federal crimes, which means that, in a captured city like Zitácuaro, they are often not investigated.

Dylan's songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind," "The Times They Are a-Changin'," "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and "Like a Rolling Stone" captured a spirit of rebellion, dissent and independence.

American officials have described some of the Yemenis as jihadist foot soldiers and have suggested that a few, like a student captured while visiting other Yemenis in Pakistan, may simply have been at the wrong place at the wrong time.

The video for Hitlist – another EP highlight that, like much of Nova Twins' output, sounds like a warning – captured their spirit of frenzied gratification.

Japan's financial structure is like a fossil captured in amber.