Sentence examples for little surges from inspiring English sources

As it is, it's like a kettle with a loose connection that has little surges of electricity but is mostly off the boil.

We could get a little surge of energy".

So with a little surge we're ahead.

Their little surge has SI.com's Zach Lowe asking if they might be for real this time.

Even die-hard Republicans admit to a little surge in state pride.

In Antwerp last weekend, I felt a little surge of grief for the Britain I grew up in.

I felt a little surge of pride when he said that I was brave to travel so far in my condition.

The story is so fine because, although MacLeod dares a little surge of historical sentimentalism, that surge is ballasted by an otherwise complete lack of sentimentality.

Dorf said that there had been little surge in American endorsement opportunities, but she countered that the timing of Vonn's success was perfect.

Kunzru's first novel, "The Impressionist," a kind of postcolonial picaresque, showed that he can do more or less what he wants with language, as a wonderful little surge of bleak precision, late in "My Revolutions," demonstrates: a horrid English café is described as displaying "prosthetic-pink iced buns lying like hospital patients under the glass of the counter".

After reading the "Gossip Girl" books, you will never walk into a department store again without feeling a little surge of pride as you recognize Christian Louboutin and John Fluevog and Michael Kors — who are to their world what Marcel Proust and Henry James and Theodore Dreiser are to the bookish audience for whom von Ziegesar writes in the guise of writing for the pre-S.A.T. young.