Sentence examples for like a covering from inspiring English sources

Often one person might find something that has ended up on the ground, like a covering button off a piece of furniture or a mechanical piece off an appliance without realizing what it belongs to.

That's why his team is developing a new kind of electrode that branches like a tree, covering a larger volume of the brain.

Add to that the big hole at the center, on which a pavilion for contemporary art, a kind of oversized trailer, is now temporarily parked on the western corner of the Schlossplatz, like a handkerchief covering a corpse.

To avoid this, hang them across several lines, as if they were like a tablecloth covering a table.

To that end, the contract now in question was made, with other like contracts, covering a sufficient acreage to insure the essential pack.

Most species of Gliocladium grow rapidly in culture producing spreading colonies with a cotton-like texture, covering a petri dish in 1 week.

The injured alien is rushed to a military hospital where a surgeon removing the bullet discovers that the alien body is actually a placenta-like space suit covering a human-like being.

A cameraman on CNN said it was "like covering a very bad horror movie".

One told the BBC that treating the illness as a news story would be "like covering an outbreak of chickenpox".

It looked like a crepe covering the plate.

Though graphic journalism might sound like a buzzphrase, covering conflict through comics is not new.