Sentence examples for like a fault from inspiring English sources

The tug of war between country and family ran like a fault line through their marriage.

The fracture, like a fault line, led to other disappointing events.

An ambivalence, like a fault line, that now threatened to topple everything that had been built over it.

Yet there was a flaw in this dazzling showman, and as one reads Gaddis's detailed account of his career, it begins to show through like a fault line.

But the Wasserburg is built upon unpaid debts and dispossessed inheritances; its foundation harbors corruption that will creep like a fault line across the generations.

Every day, with dreadful ticket sales and blatant holes in the roster, the gap between the Mets and the Yankees seems to be widening like a fault in the earth.

Arriving at Blackden feels like crossing a fault line into some other world – a recurring theme in his fiction.

That's the kind of loyalty Mr. McGreevey likes, sometimes to a fault.

Though some will cite players like these as a fault with the 18 team County Championship, I enjoy the skills and knowhow older players bring to the domestic game – of course, youngsters need to be nurtured, but if they can't learn from batting against the likes of McKay and Shreck, then they probably can't learn at all.

This suggests that a 2D-like subsurface structure, such as a fault, is discontinuous at this boundary.

A fault like this typically happens early in a match when a player aims at a smaller target under pressure– so no surprise there.