Sentence examples for like a learned from inspiring English sources

Mr Sutherland can sometimes toy with his subject, like a learned circus-elephant picking up a sixpence.

The panel for the film, a futuristic tale based on Lois Lowry's popular book, was more like a learned book-club chat than a standard Comic-Con presentation.

Faced by all the brutal expressions of his neighbor Robert Mugabe's megalomania, Mbeki has prodded here and there, like a learned physician mildly intrigued by a corpse.

Breyer can look sleepy and disengaged when he isn't speaking — gazing at the ceiling through half-closed eyes, like a learned tortoise; he comes alive when he's unfurling one of his elaborate what-if scenarios.

Breyer can look sleepy and disengaged when he isn't speaking gazing at the ceiling through half-closed eyes, like a learned tortoise; he comes alive when he's unfurling one of his elaborate what-if scenarios.

You know, the one where the guy WROTE IN ALL CAPS instead of using quotation marks like a learned man?

"I kind of take that like a learning tool," he said of his job at the furniture warehouse.

The suit says that when a teacher said they were participating in a learning activity, Ms. Benenson replied, "It doesn't look like a learning group to me".

Buy a chord book or a riff book if you would like to learn a song.

He, too, would like to learn a skill and earn a living.

We'd like to learn a bit more about you and what you love.