Sentence examples for line lifted from inspiring English sources
The chorus of their "88" (as in the year), which name-checked several dances of the era, was a line lifted directly from Nas's "Made You Look".
In a line lifted directly from book to film, "We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy".
On her new album, "Talk That Talk," a song called "Where You Have Been?" uses a synthesizer bass line lifted directly from acid house and Rihanna sounds entirely at home.
Aaron Burr advises Hamilton and other would-be revolutionaries to temper their outrage with a line lifted from "South Pacific": "I'm with you but the situation is fraught / You've got to be carefully taught".
Berbatov muscled Cameron out of the play and, as the substitute goalkeeper Tally Hall rushed off his line, lifted a neat little chip with his right instep that bounded off the crossbar.
Loren Woods steadied his beanpole body at the free-throw line, lifted the basketball above his shoulders, then heard a chant from the Illinois fans at the Alamodome in San Antonio on Sunday.
In a new ad campaign, the beleaguered car company optimistically trumpets its "bright future" as hardworking men on an assembly line lift an engine into the body of a car.
Trees will be felled, streetlights will be moved, telephone lines lifted.
The media quickly uncovered other misdeeds: lines lifted from Hubert Humphrey and R.F.K.; a badly footnoted law-school essay that resulted in a failing grade.
A cento is a collage-poem composed of lines lifted from other sources -- often, though not always, from great poets of the past.
Shakespeare's "Hamlet" was a remake; Picasso created collages from torn-up newspapers; rappers rhyme over bass lines lifted from funk songs.
