Sentence examples for thick briefcase from inspiring English sources
ON Elisabeth Semel's bulletin board is a New Yorker cartoon that shows a man with a thick briefcase walking into an empty prison cell: "Hi, I'm your court-appointed lawyer," he announces.
American officials said they hoped to know as early as Wednesday whether the seized material, found in 10 lead containers about the size of a thick briefcase, could have been used to make a weapon.
Border guards in the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan seized a radioactive cargo on an Iranian truck bound for Pakistan, State Department officials said.The material, found in 10 lead containers about the size of a thick briefcase, was being tested by officials in neighboring Kazakhstan, where it originated, to see if it could have been used to make a nuclear weapon.
There are several different brands of videophones; the product used by Ms. Palmer, the Talking Head from 7E Communications of Britain, comes in a thick waterproof briefcase-size box and can be powered by a car battery.
Former colleagues and students also recalled his beat-up Toyota Corolla, battered briefcase and thick New York accent.
Then there is that famous briefcase indicator: If you carry a thick case on days when you meet to discuss interest rates, you're pondering a rate change; if you carry a thin one, you're not making a move.
On a recent afternoon, another Iraqi man in a similar predicament, and who also asked his name not be published because of safety concerns, unzipped a black briefcase and pulled out a laptop and a thick file folder containing his case documents.
A book of "participants" as thick as the desktop edition of the Oxford English Dictionary weighed down the briefcase given to every arriving attendee yesterday, listing names from the actor Ossie Davis and the supermodel Naomi Campbell to Senator Joseph R. Biden of Delaware and James D. Wolfensohn, the president of the World Bank.
Jacobs tapped on a three-inch-thick loose-leaf binder that he pulled out of his briefcase, a catalog of every last detail needed to turn the new Yankee Stadium into a boxing arena for the first time Saturday night.
The Surface 2 is pretty thin for a 10in tablet, and is 0.5mm thinner than the iPad 4 at 8.9mm thick, meaning the Surface 2 will easily slip into most briefcases, messenger bags or backpacks.
Greta protested anxiously that she didn't want any present, but he ignored her and twiddled with the combination lock on his briefcase, then lifted the lid importantly and took out a thick paperback book, well-read, its pages furry with use.
