Sentence examples for like a cushion from inspiring English sources

In the crowded restaurant, Antonio Carluccio came up to us and said "a warm welcome to a future customer of Carluccio's", and asked my daughter if she would like a cushion to lean on.

Her bare belly was soft like a cushion of bread dough in his hand.

That doesn't happen on the new field, he said; its padding acts like a cushion.

ARCore makes it easier to position, say, a virtual puppy on a curved, textured surface like a cushion, and to adjust its shadow as the lighting shifts.

She seemed watchful and a bit careful, with the stir of stringed instruments framing her voice like a cushion beneath a gem.

As a droplet approaches a hot surface the vapour layer formed by evaporation from the droplet acts like a cushion and can prevent contact between the liquid and the hot surface.

Specifically, we tested whether short-term colonization patterns on 3 types of artificial substrata encompassing a range of complexities, including a leaf-like unit, a cushion-shaped leaf-like unit and a cushion-shaped unit, were consistent across 4 adjacent habitats: macroalgal-dominated bottoms, urchin-grazed barrens, seagrass meadows and sandy patches, at Gran Canaria (eastern Atlantic).

For most of last year, relatively healthy demand for exports gave global companies like Caterpillar a cushion.

You'd like a little more cushion than that perhaps 8%.

When those hedges expire at the end of the year, he says, it will be like abruptly removing a cushion.

When flu viruses enter our bodies, they recognise and enter cells using a protein that studs the surface like pins in a cushion called haemagglutinin (HA).