Sentence examples for on a swatch from inspiring English sources

The first freestyle skiing event took place on a swatch of snow moved there by snowplows, trucks and helicopters.

Most passengers were inside with the band, closing in on a swatch of dance floor, but the sound was also being piped on deck, where I slouched at a rail.

"A Movable Object / A Japanese Garden" (2012) rings a change on that idea with ragged chunks of asphalt heaped on a swatch of lovely blue fabric, by Issey Miyake, and mounted on a wheeled platform.

Alighting on a swatch of crimson runner and posing gamely for photographers were the Fendi heiress Fé Fendi, swathed in a Carolina Herrera floral chiffon; the philanthropist Somers Farkas in a pewter Maggie Norris evening slip; and the social stalwart Mai Hallingby Harrison, sheathed in vintage Halston.

Adam Sarner, an analyst with the Gartner Group, which specializes in Internet-related maresearchearch -- who acknowledged that he recently caught auction fever himself and splurged on a swatch of retro "Star Wars" wallpaper on eBay -- said that business-to-consumer auctions were "a marketing rather than a business model".

A left-brained type more suited to discussing Magritte or Dalí than natural resource extraction, he nevertheless procured some geothermal maps, homed in on a swatch of desert near Twentynine Palms and snapped up three acres for $35,000 in 2002.

We drive over to Chuck's neighbors, who have kindly allowed us to hunt two cornfields on either side of a swatch of trees.

Immaculate and all white, the place gave off the cheery, vaguely techno vibe of a Swatch shop on the Ginza.

On one side is a swatch of sienna, like an abstract wave.

One woman — a book open on her lap, a swatch of a purple sweater waving out over washed-out jeans, her face perhaps pointedly outside the frame — says only this to her would-be inquisitor: "These experiences were so meaningful to me that I don't want you to soundbite them".

One woman a book open on her lap, a swatch of a purple sweater waving out over washed-out jeans, her face perhaps pointedly outside the frame says only this to her would-be inquisitor: "These experiences were so meaningful to me that I don't want you to soundbite them".