Sentence examples for more proverbial from inspiring English sources

But wide receiver Braylon Edwards provided the Jets with their one more proverbial toe-stubbing by dropping the pass.

The weekend threw a few more proverbial curveballs into the sports mix, turning Tiger Woods's expected stroll through the Memorial tournament into a sobering jolt heading into next week's United States Open, as Bob Harig writes on ESPN.com.

For the United States, the message is likely to be more proverbial -- a word of caution, perhaps, a reminder of the uncertain aftermath of the American invasion of Iraq: beware of seeking out dragons and destroying them.

But the software upgrades bring a lot more proverbial flash.

Given how lucrative the FT MBA ranking franchise is, it wouldn't be a bad idea for someone at the FT to look for more proverbial cockroaches.

Throughout our history, language programs were always seen as a bonus, or addition, to the traditional batch of must-have qualifications, opening more proverbial doors into employers' offices and widening our employment prospects.

"He probably means more to the proverbial heartland than to the city of Chicago".

When it comes to plot, "Frequency" throws in a lot more than the proverbial kitchen sink.

This looks more like the proverbial "one way" street sign: it tells everyone to go in that direction, but the sign itself never moves!

But the consumer packaged goods industry -- responsible for the detergents, facial tissues, cereals and other everyday products we all use -- is more like the proverbial 800-pound gorilla than some extinct giant reptile.

Countless critics have listed and classified the morals of La Fontaine's Fables and have correctly concluded that they amount simply to an epitome of more or less proverbial wisdom, generally prudential but tinged in the second collection with a more genial epicureanism.