Sentence examples for sort of glass from inspiring English sources

Faced with drought, their tissues produce sugars which turn into a syrup as they start to dry out, eventually forming a sort of glass which preserves them perfectly.

They insist on a sort of glass wall between the critic and the theatre world, so there can be no claim to vested interest.

Jonathan Swift once observed, "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own," and so it might be charged, too, of satirists who excoriate others while exempting themselves from blame.

The remainder of the exterior would be a sort of "glass sleeve" that might drop down over part of the bottom floors, integrating the two parts, Mr. Childs said.

Jonathan Swift once observed, ''Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own," and so it might be charged, too, of satirists who excoriate others while exempting themselves from blame.

Yet he feels there is what he calls "a sort of glass panel between us", for all that their families remain close: the impression that emerges is of Ed quietly keeping the old man at a distance.

Do you favor a return to some sort of Glass-Steagall framework?

Go to the west end of San Bernardino or Riverside, and you discover the same sort of glass-fronted offices, gated communities and ever more expensive homes that you find in Orange County.

It's a sort of glass-ceiling character for these movies and shows; either the writers of such stuff think that young viewers can't handle anything more than blatantly obvious good-gal/bad-gal dynamics, or they have no idea how complex and varied real high school social life is.

But its mission serves as a corrective for fashion's mode du jour: applauding every advance toward diversity made by big brands as some sort of glass-ceiling-shattering watershed, when the reality is more challenging.

Shape up! ReprintsAngela Attwood and her colleagues asked 160 undergraduates—80 women and 80 men to do one of four things: drink beer out of a straight glass; drink beer out of a flute (a glass whose sides curve outward towards the rim); or drink lemonade from one of these two sorts of glass.