Sentence examples for plate such as from inspiring English sources

Mr Zapatero has plenty on his plate, such as tackling immigration and dealing with ETA, the Basque terrorist group.

Side dishes that complete the plate, such as brussels sprouts glistening with butter, roast potatoes, all crispness without and fluffy within, little sausages and the nutty stuffing.

He also painted crudités, fanned out on a plate, such as "you see over and over and over at everything you go to, that same stuff, in a circle a Kenneth Noland abstraction".

He also painted crudités, fanned out on a plate, such as "you see over and over and over at everything you go to, that same stuff, in a circle — a Kenneth Noland abstraction".

The opening paragraph, which sees Myrtle, a Victorian orphan, posing beside the corpse of her adoptive father: 'A finger-tip chill struck through the cloth of his white cotton shirt.' Each successive chapter revolves around a photographic plate such as this each is narrated by a separate voice, giving Bainbridge the chance for all manner of novelistic prestidigitation.

For a triangular metal plate such as that depicted in the figure, the calculation would involve a summation of the moments of the weights of all the particles that make up the metal plate about point A. By equating this sum to the plate's weight W, multiplied by the unknown distance from the centre of gravity G to AC, the position of G relative to AC can be determined.

He surrounded himself with glamorous women and fast cars bearing number plates such as "GUILTY".

Expect tantalising small plates such as an earthy terrine de campagne with country bread and smoked trout with cucumber, pickled onions and garlic flowers.

The case was settled in federal court last week and means that New Jersey will now also allow license plates such as GODLESS, HEATHEN and BLASFMR.

Serve this dish as part of a selection of small plates, such as soft-boiled quail eggs, grilled flatbread with olive oil, some quartered little gem lettuces dressed with golden fried garlic slices, lightly pickled carrots and turnips, and hummus.

In areas of collision between oceanic and continental lithospheric plates such as the circum-Pacific region, the denser oceanic plate is subducted (carried into Earth's mantle) beneath the more buoyant continental lithosphere.