Sentence examples for like a daisy from inspiring English sources

If the Russians have really succeeded in making a small reactor shaped like a daisy to fit inside a spaceship, it represents an important step forward.

His teeth are in so much better shape since I got him to brush correctly and his breath is fresh like a daisy.

Trump, who has dominated Republican-primary coverage for more than a month, and who, in a new ABC poll, has registered his largest lead since he entered the race, in June, has been like a Daisy Cutter to this strategy.

They know which veterans are hurt; they absorb every small remark by an assistant coach and mentally pluck at it, like a daisy: He likes me, he likes me not.

At Sagaponac, as the project is being called, the architects would design one house each, on lots of one and a half to three acres strung out like a daisy chain along three roads.

Of another fashionable dress trend in 1958, she wrote, Students of this seminar who can remember all the way back to last week may recall that if we are to be in fashion, we must have torsos like stems (or tree trunks) and, where our heads used to be, a full-blown look, like a daisy, or a dahlia, or a sunflower.

Then there was "Notting Hill" (1999), in which he played a gallant, awkward bookstore owner given to exclamations like "whoops-a-daisies" who becomes infatuated with an American movie star (Julia Roberts).

In the "Daring Book for Girls," the authors mix inspiring tales of girls who made good (mostly familiar names like Joan of Arc, Clara Barton and Amelia Earhart) with a scrap bag of how-tos for girlish activities like making a daisy chain or playing hand-clap games like Miss Mary Mack and Say, Say Oh Playmate.

Daphne had been told about sex, and she gave me her elementary version of the affair in a matter-of-fact way: I well remember that she was concentrating on something else, like making a daisy chain, while she informed me what "the gentleman" did to "the lady".

And five whole grilled baby squid came laced with sherry vinaigrette and arranged like petals of a daisy.

If, after all this, you're still not sated, Amherst also boasts an Emily Dickinson museum, a bookstore, and a college library full of ephemera and books like "So Has a Daisy Vanished: Emily Dickinson and Tuberculosis" and "Seductions of Emily Dickinson".