Sentence examples for shiny scraps from inspiring English sources
Clambering down a grassy crevice over sun-warmed rock pools and on to the beach, Don ducks and begins sifting through the sand to reveal empty razor clams, queeniescallop shells and shiny scraps of mother of pearl.
Carroll is, like Nerval, attractively a magpie of shiny poetical scraps of mythology and historical anecdote.
Like a magpie building its nest, we have hunted eclectically, though not without discrimination, for noteworthy notions of 2009 -- the twigs and sticks and shiny paper scraps of human ingenuity, which, when collected and woven together, form a sort ofcognitive shelter, in which the curious mind can incubate, hatch and feather.
He recommended taping old inner tube scraps over shiny new bike frames so they stand out less and making quick-release wheel levers difficult to get at by binding them with radiator clamps covered with tape.
It was a street crowded with stores stocked in the belief that no scrap of shiny paper, no inner tube, motor or sliver of smoked glass need go to waste as long as there were artists, designers and tinkerers around.
THEY are the scrap metal of a shiny skyscraper city, three little Civil War-era cast-iron buildings on a milelong strip of Broadway between Cortlandt and Thomas Streets.
In an interview with People magazine, he portrayed the scrap over Biden's comments as the latest shiny object for Republicans and the media to fixate on.
For every shiny Porsche, there is an old man pushing a cart heavy with scraps gleaned from garbage bins.
Using scissors and scraps, Julia's daughter made costumes for stuffed bunnies, sang country-and-Western songs at the top of her lungs, strung shiny beads on thread, gave loving names to the kitchen appliances.
