Sentence examples for past onto from inspiring English sources

"Don't transfer the weight of the past onto your son," she once told him.

She projected catastrophic storms from the distant past onto the present-day population and storms from the more recent past onto richer and more populated areas than they had actually hit.

People should be prepared to let Tom be Tom and not project their own past onto his present.

Through more than three hundred slick, illustrated pages, Ferguson mapped the past onto the present, identifying the building blocks of Britain's empire with their contemporary American analogues.

The witch, by claiming to bring the greatest authorities of the past onto the current scene, threatens the authority of the establishment.

The main zones for projecting the past onto the present were the "redcoats," paper targets stapled to wooden poles at 25 meters.

Ms. Meriwether, a screenwriter and the author of the plays "Heddatron" and "The Mistakes Madeline Made," lazily pastes troubled pasts onto all the play's characters to explain their quirky or pathological behavior.

Pasted onto different parts of our bodies are stickers that indicate our V.I.P. status.

Pasted onto the window of the house opposite are short poems that, in defiant tones, mock Tokyo Electric Power TEPCOownerwner of the disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear-power plant nearby.

Pasted onto the inside of the folder, so that it pops open when you open it, is a cut-out coffin.

She places no hope in Donner, whom she views as "a symbol of the past to hold onto as we're pushed into the future".