Sentence examples for proposing in a from inspiring English sources

"It was the simplest thing to do -- Nick came forward and sat, half-kneeling, on the sofa's edge, like someone proposing in a play.

(Realising no one likes the ideas he's proposing in a tense strategy meeting, Benji blurts out: "I'm just spitballing here; it's not all going to be gold").

One of the man's sons, a 7-year-old, ends up in an accidental relationship with a haughty art dealer after proposing in a chat room that they "poop back and forth, forever".

Appearing at a party chez Fedden, the P.M. is mobbed by her courtiers until Nick, emboldened by coke, spots his moment: "It was the simplest thing to do -- Nick came forward and sat, half-kneeling, on the sofa's edge, like someone proposing in a play.

It was in a similarly populist spirit that he began his day, proposing in a speech in North Carolina to put nearly all services of the federal government on line so that citizens would not have to wait in line or at their mail boxes to do things like receive their Social Security benefits, apply for a home loan with the federal government or report a crime.

Yesterday, ahead of the publication of Field's report, Deliveroo sought to put its own spin on the findings — proposing in a newspaper article what it described as a "new Charter to allow companies to give greater security to the self-employed" by providing benefits to its workforce "without compromising their self-employment status".

This was proposed in a medical journal, PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, a year ago, and it makes more sense now than ever.

Six days after the ceremony in Laos, he proposed in a hut near the Chinese border.

The need for 12 new submarines was first proposed in a defence white paper in 2009.

"Poetry, like music, is to be heard," Bunting proposed in a statement published shortly after "Briggflatts".

"He said: 'Whatever you do, don't propose in a gondola.