Sentence examples for substantial as a from inspiring English sources
Until recently, I hadn't even experienced something as substantial as a thought about those dainty sheathes.
The New York Times reviewer called the movie "about as substantial as a weather report".
For Sussex, he is more substantial as a batsman than a bowler; for England, it is the other way round.
As a former solider embarking on a new life as a teacher, he is far more substantial as a character.
The difference VAT makes can be substantial, as a document on Bupa's website entitled "Economic Attractiveness: home chemotherapy" illustrates.
A very large yew hedge, as substantial as a bison, nuzzled my shoulder as I admired an autumn clematis tumbling over its back.
"The money that is made can be just as substantial as Class A drugs but the sanctions if they are intercepted are very much lower," he said.
The city is New York, the year is 1962, and the story line is about as substantial as an anchovy.
These deceptively simple tales of life in the Central Asian borderlands are rendered with such poise and power that each felt as substantial as an epic poem.
For all its jagged cuts and shrieking violin stabs, it somehow seems as substantial as an entire second act, as if half an hour's dramatic incident has been compressed into one dense and horrible mass.
Simultaneously the divide between cross- and slip-links becomes substantial, as an extensibility grows sharply.
