Sentence examples for striking flame from inspiring English sources

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Her olive skin makes the contrast with her hair all the more striking: flame red and free-flowing.

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Not that she didn't sympathise with their anxieties – in fact, her desire to keep Alien firmly out of the picture explains that striking flame-red hair.

None of them are here, are they?" he said, casting an eye over the crowds sitting on straw bales and wandering through the numerous fund-raising stalls as local musicians performed, "Do you think they will turn up?" Before this week, few in Chipping Norton knew their neighbours included the striking, flame-haired Brooks, former editor of both the News of the World and the Sun.

Among the many subplots at the Emirates Stadium was a tale of two old striking flames: Robin van Persie returning again to the ground he left to win titles (or a title, as it turned out); and Welbeck, playing for the first time against the club where he spent 14 years, in the colours of the one at which he has been for 12 weeks.

Sometimes the women are depicted against all-over, closely patterned grounds, as in "Picabia's Brush," in which a girl, bare down to the tops of her jeans, poses winsomely, a Chinese inscription meaning "paintbrush" tattooed on her left arm against a striking wallpaper of flame red flecked with tiny symbols in gray.

She quotes a couple of her "very occasional interpolations," including the striking phrase "sad flames licking up against a smooth wall of glass".

An action of striking, a tautology of flame: I put the image of coal into metaphor; smudging my fingers.

A striking example is the brominated flame retardant DBDPE (CAS no. 84852-53-9), which has been registered with a very high volume of 10,000 100,000 t/year.

The flowfield outside the flame zone bears a striking resemblance to recent analytical solutions obtained in a geometrically similar chamber.

More striking was the short opener, Ben Parry's Flame, to words by Garth Bardsley, which employed imaginative techniques to build its small structure to a wonderfully resonant final  chord.

The release of Gasland, with its striking images of tap water bursting into flames because of high gas content, was critical to bringing concerns about the environmental and safety hazards of hydraulic fraction to wider public attention.

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