Sentence examples for presents in a from inspiring English sources

You are never too old to be given presents in a sock.

Her work often presents in a comical yet macabre manner the destructiveness latent in ordinary situations.

She also recalled the holiday presents in a household that came to have 14 children.

Neat packages of meat stacked up in front of them, like presents in a department store's holiday display.

Typical accidents involve stabbings from scissors and knives used to open presents in a rush, and tripping over toys or electric cables for new gadgets.

Quarterback Donovan McNabb started picking out weaknesses as if he were a child picking out his presents in a toy store.

The figures bolstered expectations that the supermarket industry benefited from the December snow, with customers buying much of their food, drink and presents in a single "big shop".

The sheriff's office added that she returned the presents in a plastic bag early on Monday because "she started feeling bad".

Then Huckabee lived out his holiday fantasies by collecting a record $112,000 in presents in a single year, including $48,000 in clothing and a chainsaw.

Stress-filled, well-intentioned folk buying sad, unwanted presents in a hassled environment, labouring under a huge burden of guilt and obligation.

"They made every right step, and they never rushed it," said John Moore, the founder of Bowery Presents, in a telephone interview.