Sentence examples for like a formation from inspiring English sources

So it's like a formation".

It resembles an elegantly camouflaged natural growth, like a formation of fungi or ginger root, but one you want to stroke.

In the overlapping Upper East Side historic district, the median household income of homeowners is seven hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year... for New Yorkers, this abrupt juncture of the Upper East Side and Harlem is like a formation of the Ice Age: dramatic, but so familiar that it is barely noticed.

Better to stand on Westminster Bridge with Conan Doyle, "struck by the brightness of the street lamps running across like a formation of stars" and burning away the romantic mist of the gaslight era in the "cleansing glare" of the new century.

You may wish to keep your screws in a like formation so that you will know how to put them back.

The Raiders and the Buccaneers each like to use a formation in which their backfield is empty, with no running backs and five receivers at the line of scrimmage.

Cell migration was assessed using a modified wound-healing assay and a transwell chamber assay; tube formation was assessed using a capillary-like tube formation assay and a chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) assay.

The talk is all of the markets, as if they were a natural, elemental and irresistible force – like a rock formation or a hurricane.

A horizontal line, for example, in Chinese calligraphy, is like a cloud formation, or a natural, living form".

The headstones of white Italian marble are set in ranks, like a parade formation of the dead.

Eagle-eyed players may also spot the inclusion of a few other Disney-specific nods, like a rock formation that looks awfully like something out of The Lion King …