Sentence examples for pictures knocked from inspiring English sources

The visitors' center and an office building at the site had broken ceiling tiles and pictures knocked off the walls, and a small crack in an exterior wall.

The great Cubist pictures were knocked down, under government auspices, at pitiful prices.

Such quibbling will not trouble Fuller's advocates, who warm to him less for his subtlety than for his abrasive energies, the speed with which people in his pictures are knocked sideways into terror and psychosis — wait for the guy who loses a testicle, which Possum finds and tosses away like a peach stone — and his administering of lyrical shock.

This year, the Dutch picture was knocked down at only £90,000 — well within Christie's estimated bracket.

The sportswriter Stefan Fatsis, who devoted a front-page article in The Wall Street Journal to the success of smashmouth in 2001, is partial to the verb decleat, which evokes a similarly cartoonish picture: getting knocked off your feet by a block or tackle with such brute force that your shoes fly off.

He knocked pictures off the wall.

She needed to borrow a hammer to hang some pictures, so she knocked on a door propped open with a red recycling bin.

It was 90 degrees for most of the day in Donetsk and the weather with a clap of thunder during the French national anthem which scrambled television pictures momentarily and knocked out La Marseillaise which was booming over the stadium PA. 5.36pm: Ponytails... It's basically a head-t-head between David Seaman and Roberto Baggio.

"They knocked pictures off the wall".

This includes a device (pictured) that knocks a playing card out from under a ball that stays in place, demonstrating the principle of inertia.

In artist David Shrobe's multimedia work "Guerrilla Tactics," the edge of a gold picture frame knocks up against a curved slice of mosaic nestled near an emerald-colored plastic crate.