Sentence examples for like a tile from inspiring English sources

It can fall on you like a tile or grow in you like a worm.

The mist cleared for a moment and Ms. Rottier had a vivid answer: all around her, the grid of Los Angeles spread out to the edges of the surrounding mountains like a tile floor.

"The first time I saw the palette of, the dark blue colors looked to me like a tile that reflects and absorbs light.

The participation of other Broadband for America members includes more improbable stalwarts of the broadband industry agenda like a tile and roofing company, a Virginia college scholarship program, a golf club in Salem, Oregon, and the Eastern Shore Tourism Commission.

The winner is the first player to hold a complete hand i.e., four sets and a pair of like tiles (a total of 14 tiles).

American bribery, he said, ranges from huge debacles, like when a tile manufacturer bought a $300,000 house for a Home Depot buyer a few years ago to more common occurrences like a buyer saying, "Hey, I'll let you put television sets into all my stores to promote your product but give me five extra in case they break".

Each of her photos is a tile, like the little squares that Ms. Eden used to stamp with letters when she worked in a factory making Scrabble games in the 1950's.

I go through an empty wash bay and behind the carwash, a nice lit-up space away from the street, a green dragon mural like a tattoo on a tile wall, a colorful vacuum cleaner/fragrance dispenser about the size of a gas pump on a concrete rise, like a stage: Wild Cherry, Pina Colada, Orange Blast.

This technique has you take some thinset, apply it to the back of a tile like you are spreading it with a butter knife then spread it over the entire tile back with your notched trowel.

I really like a lot of the live tile functionality (News in particular is interesting here).

The cake did, too, only darker and wetter, like a floor tile gone horribly wrong.