Sentence examples for ribbon from inspiring English sources

A gate at the bottom of the garden leads on to a creamy ribbon of sand and views of bobbing fishing boats.

Some online sources attribute this to the 1949 John Wayne film She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (what Wayne actually said in that film was "Never apologise, mister – it's a sign of weakness"), but its antecedents are murky.

I must confess that when I first saw his new bus, with its ribbon window winding up the rear and side, I feared the worst.

With smart technology projects often taking a long time to implement, Aoun said it is rare to find a politician who is willing to embark on this journey, knowing that they will not be around to cut the ribbon".

Although I still don't know the why of it, it seems this one comes from a Jewish tradition where tying a red ribbon around a crib was believed to protect a baby from The Evil Eye.

6. Red ribbons Growing up there was not a bed in our home that didn't have a red ribbon secreted under the mattress.

It's just that so blue-rinsed, blue-ribbon, blue-blooded are the locals, that the Liberal Party don't have to promise anything.

In campaign speeches only thinly veiled as impartial ribbon-cutting ceremonies all over the Kurdish south-east, Erdogan has repeatedly brandished a Kurdish translation of the Qur'an, warning "his Muslim Kurdish brothers" not to support "these people who have no relationship with Islam".

In 2000, a "blue-ribbon panel" of sober baseball fans worried about "competitive imbalance".

Mr Abhisit attends so many royal ribbon-cuttings that it is hard to imagine how he finds time to govern, says a senior Western diplomat.Royal censorship has kept much of this debate under wraps.

It is also the product of a truce between the pro- and anti-ribbon camps, who were persuaded to back a monument as a compromise.Yet some fear that reverence for the troops has dangerously dulled public curiosity.