Sentence examples for motion like a from inspiring English sources

Fast motion, like a tennis serve, is no longer jerky.

The result was a dial apparently in constant motion, like a wave rolling in the ocean.

Not all at once, of course, but in slow motion, like a film".

Suddenly a tumult of motion, like a herd of buffaloes in full charge, signals the arrival of a celebrity.

"This tank wobbled a little bit," he said, making a hand motion like a restrained wave from a pope.

Moreover, the chord seemed to be in motion, like a crystal turning in space as light shone through it.

Film is flickery, so kinetic that it disappears in motion, like an aeroplane propeller.

An avant-garde edit of the film would feature nothing but astronauts in motion, like an interplanetary ballet.

His motion looks like slow motion, like an ellipse in tempo, and is perfectly on beat — but no sooner touching it than departing from it, so that his movements are connected and constant, like breathing.

There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still choiring to the young-eyed cherubins.

So-called megathrust events, such as the Sumatra and Tohoku quakes, typically involve slip with "reverse" motion, like an Aztec temple builder pushing a rock slab up a ramp.