Sentence examples for remove a fly from inspiring English sources

Barbara Steele, director of the Ocean County Public Affairs Department and the county's Tourism Advisory Council, said of the state's new procedures, "It's like that Chinese proverb about using an ax to remove a fly from a friend's head".

Removing a fly from a bowl of soup inevitably involves removing some soup as well; but it seems grammatically inappropriate to say that in such a case, there is another thing which is removed, alongside the fly.

Additional history was obtained from the patient's wife, who reported that 2 weeks before onset of symptoms, the patient had removed a flying squirrel carcass from the air intake chamber of the furnace in his office building's basement.

Anderson started working in Johnston's lab last summer and says it took her awhile to become proficient enough to remove a retina from a fly.

Mr. Coviello removed a Chinese fly whisk, one of several flanking a portrait of Victor Hugo on a living room wall, and stropped himself gently on the back.

Demography cages were 1L food service containers with a screen lid, aperture to remove flies and a passage-tube to a removable, standard food vial.

I am always surprised anew at the strength of a fish that usually weighs no more than five pounds and startled by its throbbing energy when I remove the fly from its jaw.

But after Charles had Boga-Gripped the fish and stuck his hand up through its gills to remove the fly, it began to gush blood.

A fly that has been swatted into absolute paste on the kitchen table and requires scraping to remove the fly pâté is mors dood.

This isn't an effective insecticide you'll need to actively remove the flies by hand but it beats toxic sprays!

A prototype walk-through fly vacuum system, designed to remove horn flies Haematobia irritans (L).