Sentence examples for over a sock from inspiring English sources

He even paints and details frames according to clients' wants (the quirkiest example being when a client handed over a sock by British clothes designer, Paul Smith, for inspiration).

The actigraph was worn around the wrist in adults (Octagonal Basic Motionlogger, Ambulatory Monitoring) and around the ankle over a sock in infants (MicroMini Motionlogger, Ambulatory Monitoring).

Other devices are made of horseshoe-shaped plastic over which a sock is draped or stretched.

It was like being hit over the head with a sock full of wet sand.

"Put a sock over the hairdryer to diffuse the heat," he tells me when I complain that the hairdryers at my gym don't have a diffuser.

The first time I spoke with him, on the telephone, he described how people with heart problems will one day wear a self-contained "artificial pericardium," a filmy device that can be slipped over the heart like a sock.

"They'd tighten it up so much, they'd put a sock over your arm so you won't see the marks, but your hands and feet get so swollen -- I could barely walk," she said.

Sadly by this point my right ankle had swelled to the point where fitting a sock over it was a real struggle; it was simply a case of strapping it up and plodding on.

We already know that farmers don't have a sniff of sentimentality, but it's still bracing to see the sheep breeders in this movie drag a newborn by its hind leg across the straw, or slip the skin of a dead lamb, like a sock, over the torso of an orphaned one, in the hope that the bereaved mother will accept it.

When I was in my third year at uni, I'd stick a sock over the fire alarm in my room then chainsmoke like a miserable goth to "Silver Rocket" while smashing out essay bibliographies until I fell asleep.

The test consists of 3 tasks- putting a sock over one hand, putting a paper clip on an envelope and pouring water from a jug.