Sentence examples for like a shaft from inspiring English sources

Words fascinated him, with their "faithlessness" and slipperiness, with the way they could clarify like a shaft of daylight and then spread confusion like a mist.

At a time when conditions over here might urge many a jockey into early retirement, the news that Gary Stevens is to ride again crossed the ocean like a shaft of Californian sunlight.

At Tuesday's opening performance of a six-week engagement at the Café Carlyle her voice, clear and vibrato free but inflected with delicate little shivers, stole through the room like a shaft of light falling through a stained-glass window.

It seemed fitting (especially after a few too many bottles of wine) that we should pay homage to the woman whose postwar cookery books introduced Britain to an entirely new way of cooking, cutting through the gloom and stodge like a shaft of Mediterranean sunlight.

In a draft of "Abide with Me," Strout wrote of what it felt like for the protagonist — a Congregational minister in Maine — when parishioners praised his sermons: "Compliments would come to him like a shaft of light and then bounce off his shoulder".

When she introduced me to Barack Obama, I felt like there was a shaft of light coming down on him.

Without really smart and very fast control, electric drives are jittery and unstable; they're good only for simple and steady operations like continuously spinning a shaft.

On the wall is a poster of a pen, held up like a sword in a shaft of light.

The Times's correspondent said trying to contain him was like trying to capture "a shaft of light in a matchbox.

They are circular, with a round base, a slender column-like shaft, and a large grease pan with a spike for the candle.

It feels like a mine shaft, deep under the earth.