Sentence examples for moving as though from inspiring English sources

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Swinton is physically sharp and snappy, moving as though she has scissor blades rather than bones under the skin.

The band can slowly shrink, moving as though it is slipping from the surface, until it becomes just a dot on the apple's skin.

Shrimp spaetzle tossed with spicy sausage, broccolini, and bonito flakes that were moving as though alive — they "dance," apparently, when you use them to season hot food — was outrageously weird (and delicious).

Moving as though in a dream, Thompson goes outside, where he writes a note that says, in part, "It was Mr. Homer T. Hatch who came to do wrong to a harmless man".

In this case, for example, nothing is said in GA about the heart 'beating and moving as though it were alive'.

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I moved as though in a dream, unable to feel the floor beneath my feet.

Mary Queen of Scots wore a crimson petticoat to her execution, a visual reminder of her desire to die a Catholic martyr -- an image reinforced by stories that her lips moved as though in silent prayer for 15 minutes after her head was severed.

As Hale spoke, Walsh's fingers moved as though he were playing a tiny, silent piano.

Through this landscape — craggy, bare in places and verdant elsewhere, a textbook instance of the sublime — one moves as though through a dream.

Everything is quiet, and the nurses and orderlies move as though they weren't sure the hospital was theirs to keep.

"He moved as though his body were a horse that he was riding, a horse that did not like its rider and was resisting".

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