Sentence examples for mat as was from inspiring English sources

Supposedly based on an ancient Chinese tale called "The Carnal Prayer Mat," as was the 1991 2-D "Sex and Zen," Christopher Sun's "3D Sex and Zen" is the story of a feckless Ming dynasty scholar, Wei Yangsheng (Hiro Hayama); his long-suffering wife, Tie Yuxiang (Leni Lan); and the evil Prince of Ning (Tony Ho), who spends a good part of the movie torturing them.

Rather than leave them on the mat, as is the symbolic custom with retiring wrestlers, Cejudo heaved one shoe deep into the standing crowd on one side of the packed arena, and the other to the opposite side.

Frazier, a 3-1 betting favourite, was bashed from pillar to post to boxing mat as he was put down six times before being stopped in the second round.

Gregory told the club website:  "We were keen to keep Mat as Ryan Dickson is still a couple of weeks away from being fit.

Russell tried paraphrasing 'The cat is not on the mat' as 'There is a state of affairs incompatible with the cat being on the mat'.

The minor presence of nesquehonite may be the result of either abiotic precipitation in the wetland or by the evaporation of water from the mats after sampling as is certainly the case with sylvite (KCl).

In New York, the Lululemon yoga pants and Manduka mats were plentiful, as were the suit-wearing poets writing inspirational haikus for morning ravers. .

It was historically forbidden for women to wear lambas made of cotton or any other material than woven raffia mats, as it was believed this could render them more attractive to men outside their clan, with whom they were forbidden to marry.

But Mr. Davis, a janitor at a diner, is rolling out the welcome mat as if they were long lost kin -- and in a way they are.

Worker 3: Tamps the mats as they are placed.

Continue with mats on hand, leapfrogging the mats as they are removed and replaced in the concrete.