Sentence examples for like a spill from inspiring English sources

Directly below Fanny and Constance lived somebody who took flash photographs from his or her balcony, the bright quiet blast of light below them every now and then like a spill of phosphorescence, fairy dust, at their feet.

As a result, the cast seems like a spilled trunk of broken toys, with which the audience - and perhaps the creators - may quickly become bored.

Johnson, around the wicket, speared one in short, and Elgar just got lost, couldn't get out of the way, and wore it like a spilled bowl of soup.

Who would think that a tragedy like a spilled mug of coffee could ferment an abstract piece of art?

Americans had never seen a spill like this, and they were shocked by it.

Many Americans (44%) say a spill like the one in the Gulf was inevitable; but a majority (56%) think it was an unusual accident.

"Given where the pipeline is scheduled to go, it's not inconceivable that a spill like the Enbridge pipeline spill could occur," said Sean Sweeney, the institute's director and a co-author of the study.

"But a lot of animals live in the ocean, and a spill like this becomes bad for marine life as soon as it hits the water.

That about sums up the story of the Prestige, an ill-fated vessel that sank on November 19th in rough seas off the Atlantic coast of Spain.Cleaning up a spill like this is not straightforward.

It is why a spill like this one, whether big or small, will continue to garner national headlines.

Environmental groups in the state say that, rather than enforcing environmental laws, the DENR has protected Duke for years -- thereby allowing a spill like this to happen.