Sentence examples for like marines from inspiring English sources

They're like marines.

When his material threatens to become blandly observational, as with one spiel about dipping biscuits in tea, he rescues it by ratcheting up the dismay and making increasingly absurd comic connections ("Hobnobs," he insists, "are like marines").

Accusing the club of treating their players like "marines", he told the Daily Mirror in March 2014: "In contact sports occasionally there is an unlucky injury but most injuries are a result of overloading the body... doing the wrong workload at the wrong time or in the wrong sequence".

When Lois says they haven´l't heard from Joe, he is seen screaming the Rifleman's Creed at his wheelchair like marines do with their rifles in the movie Apocalypse Now and the bootcamp sequence in Full Metal Jacket.

NCI spokesman John Rowlands said of the lookout: "We're out of a job, all our equipment was in there too like marine radios, binoculars, a telescope".

The bulk of my work focuses on these unusual yet captivating and often beautiful creatures, like marine invertebrates, arthropods, and amphibians.

Cusk eel, any of about 30 species of slim, eel-like marine fishes of the family Ophidiidae, found worldwide in warm and temperate waters.

"Operating literally at the end of our tether, we searched for over an hour in nightmare terrain: a vertical cliff face pockmarked with caves and covered with fern-like marine growth".

Whatever you call them, comb jellies are jelly-like marine predators.

A glycosaminoglycan-like marine exopolysaccharide EPS HE800 was here incorporated to enhance cell adhesion.

Paleontologists see this pattern in many (although far from all) fossil organisms from coral-like marine bryozoans to large terrestrial mammals, like horses (Gould and Eldredge 1993).