Sentence examples for sliver away from inspiring English sources

Among the euro-zone countries Italy will remain the most acute concern, with a risk that its government debt, which accounts for a quarter of the euro zone's bonds, gets downgraded to "BBB-", just a sliver away from junk status, by Standard & Poor's, a ratings agency.

But then, so many comedies are only a sliver away from being terrifying psycho thrillers; I remember getting sweaty-palmed in Clockwise while all around me roared with laughter as John Cleese's attempts to reach a conference went horribly wrong, resulting in escalating humiliation and madness; this was like one of my worst nightmares.

It accordions out as the moon slivers away.

The research team, led by Axel Nimmerjahn at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, created a window on the brain of 12 such mice by shaving away a small patch of skull until only a transparent sliver of bone remained.

Unlike the east coast of Australia where ongoing uplift commenced 80 million years ago (Ma) [ 9], the Pilbara has not been tectonically active since the Late Jurassic (160 Ma) when a continental sliver rifted away from the Pilbara region of northern Australia [ 10].

Nor will I forget the furniture- and theater-maker Barnaby Stone taking me on a chairlift-driven tour of an illuminated piece of centuries-old wood from which we are then given a sliver to take away.

The tough outer layers of the whites are peeled away, slivered, dipped in flour and fried.

Dispersed by the vibrations, the particles made patterns that told her just where to shave away slivers of excess wood.

Mr. Baratz executes his craft with an eyeglass and a burin, a small knife that he uses to peel away slivers of steel to create the plate for the certificate.

Wander east, to 10th Street between First and Second Avenues, and there are hot bowls of ramen sloshing atop the counter at Rai Rai Ken, and Berkshire pork cutlets quilted in comforting spiced gravy at Curry-Ya, and crimson slivers of beef simmering away their fat in hot pots at Shabu-Tatsu.

As part of those discussions, the company proposed a deal that would sharply reduce the amount of debt held by that segment while allowing the private equity owners to walk away with a sliver of the parent company's stock.