Sentence examples for like a figurehead from inspiring English sources

Standing at the front of the kayak, she looks like a figurehead on a ship.

Off went the boat into the wild sea with the child at its prow like a figurehead.

Spinning in a haze, she seems like a figurehead for the whole enterprise: proud, enraptured, risky, and too damned drunk on America to make much sense.

Terriers aren't water dogs, but Harry enjoyed kayaking in Maine, sitting like a figurehead between my knees for an hour or more and scoping out the passing cormorant or yachtsman.

They've reworked the placement of her feet against his thighs in the dance's most famous moment, a lift in which she projects herself forward like a figurehead on the prow of a ship.

Mads Mikkelsen finds himself installed like a figurehead at the prow of Arnaud des Pallières's surging historical romp, gazing resolutely towards the far horizon, his eyes alive with both sadness and strength.

Of course, with a figurehead like a bereaved mother, the government must advocate tougher sentences.

He was disturbed, too, that they expected him to be a figurehead like his father, pliant and cuddly, a little lamb.

As Mr Gbagbo's supporters danced, literally, in the streets to celebrate his continuation in power, the opposition demanded that the prime minister should run the government and that the president should become a figurehead, like the queen of England.

Orthodox Christians are happy with him as a figurehead, like the Queen, but are alarmed at the idea that he might intervene in their affairs or boss around their patriarchs.

"If they don't release her soon she may become a figurehead like Mohamed Bouazizi [whose self-immolation inspired the Tunisian revolt]." Khaled al-Ansi the general executive of Hood, The National Organisation for Defending Rights and Freedoms, was among a number of journalists arrested during the protest.