Sentence examples for soapsuds from inspiring English sources

But the EU barely existed at the talks.E pluribus disunity?American and Chinese illusions about European unity are also popping like soapsuds in the sun.

Her hands happily plunged into soapsuds, she gazes gratefully at her husband, Bob, under the headline: "She wouldn't take No for an answer".

But makers of military hardware and makers of soapsuds have to pursue significantly different strategies: the complex sensitivities of the defence industry mean that corporate manoeuvres involve lots of international politics, plus a system of alliances that might have muddled Metternich.Three main pieces occupy the chess board.

Vapour rose from his mahogany flanks into the cold blue air, but the sense of divinity, of mystery, dissolved in the modesty of the ritual, soapsuds trickling between his hindlegs and his tail hanging long and wet.

One day I was in the bath and my engagement rings slipped off in the soapsuds.

Bad political arguments are as frothy as soapsuds: they get bigger and bigger, until they pop.

Or he might draw smiley faces with soapsuds as a child stares back at him in fascination.

He had mixed a little bowl of soapsuds and was amusing himself by blowing the brightly coloured bubbles out of the window and into the street".

I HAD wanted to do something with my life - I thought I had SOME capacities, and here they were going down the plughole with the soapsuds.' Things did not get easier.

Delicate, touching and wan, Medalla's art is as hard to grasp as the soapsuds climbing and falling next door, where a long poem called The Bubble Machine is also pinned to the wall.

Spall is decidedly of the soapsuds-and-whitewash school of painting.