Sentence examples for they were figures from inspiring English sources
They were figures whose glossy confidence mirrored America's.
Instead of howling around bonfires and turning stagecoaches into porcupines, they were figures of heroism and moral authority.
"Local people had completely forgotten they were figures of the Buddha," says Hamid Jalya, head of historical monuments in Bamiyan province.
"The only time we saw working-class characters they were sidekicks, like Digby in Dan Dare, or they were figures of fun," Mills says.
Each of them is assigned a false name — Miss Erstwhile, say, or Elizabeth Charming — for the duration of their stay, as if they were figures in a novel.
The likes of Bismarck, Witte and Salisbury were not modest men, but they were figures of far better skill and judgment.
Next week, they were figuring to go hunting.
"In Europe they were figuring out what the mouse really wanted to eat".
Mostly they were figuring out what role their children would play in the ceremony.
"They were figuring it out as they went along," Preusch says.
When asked how they were figuring it out, new CEO Pao said it was all still very new.
