Sentence examples for like a cross section from inspiring English sources

The travelers looked like a cross section of Southwest's customer base, which is primarily leisure passengers with some thrift-minded business fliers mixed in.

Sliced, it looks like a cross section of an unpeeled red banana, suggesting that maybe Mr. Dufresne is a mad botanist, too.

A plate arrives bearing what looks like a cross section of slab bacon, but it's really a terrine of three separate beet purées — red, golden and chioggia — that have been set in a mold and then sauced with another purée, of horseradish and roasted parsnips: a root-crop tour of the five taste sensations.

Roth sees the installation like a cross section of environments, almost an evolution through stages of life.

Resumes for Mobvoi's top brass read like a cross section of the best in U.S. education and innovation: Google Translate, Harvard Business School, Microsoft, Stanford-affiliated research labs, and so on.

If the leopard's at an angle facing you, the full length of the body may not show and the oval may be more like a cross section or mostly chest.

(A regular pentagon has equal side lengths and equal angles between sides, like, say, a cross section of okra, or, erm, the Pentagon).

The rudder is an appendage that has a cross section much like an airfoil and that develops lift when it is turned to produce a nonzero angle of attack relative to the water.

To accurately age a stranded dolphin, a veterinary pathologist will cut a tooth in half and count the growth layers that develop like the annual rings seen in a cross section of tree trunk.

Sandman-and-Martin events bring in a sprinkling of national celebrities (like John Legend, Andre Agassi or Adrian Grenier) and cultivate a cross section of Washington celebrity (the White House assistant chef Sam Kass) that goes beyond politics (Philippe Cousteau, Tammy Haddad, Norah O'Donnell).

I prefer my great-aunt Fannie Lou's version, which looks more like a cross-section of half-molten conglomerate rock.