Sentence examples for like a fabric from inspiring English sources

The city's fire companies, he said, are "like a fabric," interrelated, and "to eliminate any stitch or any thread in the fabric diminishes the strength of the whole".

Sometimes, Mr. Holtzman offered his version of a Cracker Jack prize: an add-on like a fabric wrapper by Mr. Oldham or a CD by DJ Spooky.

With the gelfrog, we've created a design for an inexpensive, object-based learning environment in which the images are alive and the hardware is soft -- more like a fabric, more pleasant to use, durable and rugged.

Ms. Bright, slowed but not humbled by sickness, showed examples of work under way in her studio, as a CD of Abby Lincoln, the jazz singer, smoothed the air like a fabric being softly steamed.

To decorate, make use of the candles, flowers and greenery already in your outdoor space rather than stocking up on store-bought flowers, and consider using decorations that can be reused (like a fabric happy birthday banner, for example) rather than one-time use decorations.

The second Thomas painting on the list, "Sky Light" (1973), is a classic, if somewhat somber and monotonous, example of the type: a wall — more like a fabric hanging — of close-together vertical columns made of linked blue strokes, with a white ground showing through, like light through cracks.

Democracy in our hands is like a fabric-softened washrag in the hands of a teenage boy... we won't stop using it, ever.

He also solicited discounts from his tradesmen and gifts from suppliers like Pollack, a fabric company.

Make sure you choose a fabric you like!

The Flagship is a tiny plane, more like a kite, with a fabric fuselage no wider than a yardstick.

And the ideas that might have been developed, like ink blots as a fabric, were shown as one-offs.