Sentence examples for like windblown from inspiring English sources

He scatters ideas and references like windblown seeds.

'Scatters ideas and references like windblown seeds': Haruki Murakami outside Hans Christian Andersen's house in Odense, Denmark.

But all Nguyen's fiction is pervaded by a shared intensity of vision, by stinging perceptions that drift like windblown ashes.

It looked like windblown soil from the bed of a lake or pond — the kind of place most likely to harbor life and preserve its remains.

McGee says a 10-foot column represents approximately 30,000 years of sediments deposited, layer by layer, in the ocean — sediments like windblown dust from the continent, marine deposits brought in by ocean currents, and leftover bits of organisms that sank to the seafloor.

slider that dipped like a windblown leaf.

Ms. Taylor-Corbett instead supplies instantly forgettable sequences of lifts and long, chorus line-esque patterns, with poor Ms. Whelan stumbling and tumbling through it like a windblown sparrow.

Danger is, once you're sprung from these fierce Toledo winters, the first place you find in the Sunshine State you will — like some windblown seed — take fast tropic-type root".

Her heart had stopped and she had drifted toward a white light that rose away from her like a windblown sheet, hovering over what she recognized as her cluttered living room.

INGRID K. WILLIAMS Lisbon It's Not Just Fado For generations, Lisbon's reputation has been wrapped up in fado, the centuries-old folk music that drifts like teary, windblown tissue from the city's timeworn fado houses, which are de rigueur stops for travelers.

­Oscar has red hair, "that frizzy nest which grew outwards, horizontal like a windblown tree in an Italianate painting"; the infant Lucinda cuts off all her doll's hair, punishing it for looking like herself, her own reddish hair sometimes caught by the light "in a slightly frizzy halo".