Sentence examples for like the dash of from inspiring English sources

Another old-fashioned feature is the aforementioned plastic fascia (black, blue, or taupe), which echoes steel dashboards used in cars almost a half-century ago (and is very much like the dash of the 1957 507 BMW roadster which was the template for the Z8 design).

The Garmin Speak is an Echo Dot-like device that sits in the dash of your car and brings the full range of Alexa skills into the car.

He was like the Dame Dash of our generation.

Airplanes like the Dash 8 have pneumatic boots, made of a tire-like rubber, that inflate and deflate to break up the accumulating ice on the front edges.

You could put some garlic in there, if you like, and a dash of hot chili oil, or sesame.

The vinegary snap of chilled pickle cuts, like a dash of irony, against the stoic unctuousness of peanut butter.

"With the right seasoning -- like a dash of Jamaican curry powder -- vegetables can taste as good as potato chips," she says.

But at the risk of sounding like sourpusses, we'd like to add a dash of healthy skepticism to those happy green shoots.

No doubt the idea will polarise opinion when the common perception it that stopping games to check video footage will delay the flow and – admittedly, not the greatest argument – quite a few of us actually like a dash of controversy and regard refereeing mistakes as part of the fun.

But these are truly only hints, and so while it is not entirely surprising when the book veers away from idyllic innocence and full-on into Byatt's more accustomed territory--erotic secrets, twisted relationships, abuse--it is like a dash of cold water that leaves the reader gasping.

Certain resources are sometimes referred to by the German term Gewürzmetall – "spice metal – because, like a dash of cinnamon or saffron tying a dish's flavour together, these materials compose only a small proportion of an electronic device's makeup but are essential for that device to function.