Sentence examples for thing surrounding from inspiring English sources

LET'S not talk about the literal horse, which H&M will probably print on a tank top, but the whole dark, countryside, belle epoque lifestyle thing surrounding the horse.

Not so long ago Mary Lou Lord was a momentary next big thing, surrounded by hype that threatened to obscure her delicate voice and subtle songwriting.

Signs of high demand for "the real thing" surround us in the ornate Tea Salon – all baroque gold and vast polished mirrors – at the Vienna State Opera where we meet.

Another summer, he made a South Seas-style lantern with bamboo, twine and kraft paper; the whole thing surrounds a hideous 70's light fixture.

The box on the southeast corner of Newtown Avenue and 21st Street in Queens is a battered thing surrounded by a patch of high grass, as if it had sprouted straight out of the sidewalk.

For the galleries of tomorrow we recommend that there be one painting as a permanent exhibit, to commemorate the suicidal age we are now living through, a large canvas showing an airport toward which planes grope at 200 miles an hour through a light fog, the whole thing surrounded by wires - like a net to catch a run of herring.

When a human egg pops out of the ovary each month (unless you're suppressing ovulation by eating hormones, of course), it's a tiny thing, surrounded by a cloud of other cells that cling on to it for a bit.

"He does not love a lot of things surrounding the races," Marco Buchel of Liechtenstein said of Miller.

Alexandra Wilson, who was supposed to make her Broadway debut tonight, imagined many things surrounding her big break.

"He does not love a lot of things surrounding the races, I know that, but in his heart, ski racing is what he's up for".

These are the things surrounding us that are in our intimate environment and we like to think of them as objective givens.