Sentence examples for mirage in the first from inspiring English sources

An image of American control may have been a mirage in the first days, but it would probably have deterred most of the looting.

They're both just getting started, though Mirage apparently hit 200,000 downloads in the first 24 hours, and was the #4 overall free iOS app in the US and the #1 free social app.

While the rebound is tiny, and might yet prove to be a statistical mirage, it is the first recorded increase in organized labor's ranks since the 1970s, when almost one in four workers belonged to a union.

But too often he did not have time to throw, to go over his progressions, rendering the Jets' new big-play threats — Burress and Derrick Mason — a mirage; Sanchez looked their way twice in the first half, misfiring each time.

The champion was brought down to earth with a bump after his announcement, as his ride in the next race, Goodwood Mirage, fell at the first flight.

Even the promise of being allowed in the Obamas' house is a bit of a mirage: the first family rarely spends nights there anymore, and many Chicago friends predict they will never move back in.

In the first movement, called "Mirage," the orchestra operates like a zoom lens, while the violinist is a gazelle-like post-Minimalist moving target.

When Leonora asks Rocco to allow the prisoners out of their cells and into the garden in the first act of Beethoven's Fidelio, the beauty of the Garsington Manor setting comes into its own like a tantalising mirage.

When Mirage in the Desert?

Boston lay over the horizon, a misty mirage in the west.

One of them appears in the manner of a mirage in the desert.