Sentence examples for raised glass from inspiring English sources

[graphic] / [man with a raised glass].

Every homecoming needs a raised glass, and this is the place and the beer.

For this reason, construction of small numbers of special-purpose cars demanding nonstandard bodies is not favoured; an example is the dome observation car, with a raised, glass roof section, popular in North America.

You'd be hard-pressed, in commercial comedy, to find any more bitter or beleaguered gourmand of grief; if Butley had a coat of arms, it would be the raised glass and the raised eyebrow on a field of black and blue.

"I roll your word for liquor, usquebaugh, around my mouth", the speaker says reverently, before letting the whiskey drip down into a lustrous final couplet in which the last line is spun out beyond its natural length to extend the warmth of the moment: "You are distilled before you disappear forever / like the raised glass, the sunlight on one last golden measure".

"Do You not find it an unforgivable lapse of Yours," the bridegroom says, with a raised glass, in one of his tamer locutions, "that after these thousands of years we can no more explain ourselves than we can explain You?" Mr. Doctorow seemed ill at ease at the suggestion that the wedding, the novel's climactic event, was planned provocation.

Between sets, a DJ would play records, but when one didn't show up, the club's cigarette girl spun discs in the raised, glass-panelled booth and danced to them.

That called for raised glasses.

Drinks were raised, glasses clinked and hoorays hollered.

Friends and I raised glasses of stout at the pub that evening.

His associates raised glasses.