Sentence examples for three scraps from inspiring English sources

So they put three scraps of paper into a hat: "producer," "director" and "cinematographer".

Instead, they put three scraps of paper into a hat -- reading "producer," "director" and "cinematographer" -- and took turns drawing.

From the canal-head works, running five kilometres to the boundary of the bit of property that my grandfather bought on spec in 1916 and never once visited, there were only two or three scraps of cultivated land when I showed up that day in 1987 with my fresh-minted Dartmouth degree in English lit.

Among the items I was shown there were three scraps of paper on which my Irish grandfather (whom I had never met) had written out the names of his offspring: the last of them showed that my mother was the 19th of 20 children, a fact she had never told me.

"Putin asked whether Lithuanian president Adamkus really [thought] two or three scrap metal planes from Nato [could] defend him," recalled Mr Saakashvili, then recounted the Russian president's chilling next remarks: "We are laughing at this equipment.

Then he showed me two scraps of clear plastic fabric.

The floor of one room is entirely covered by two-by-four scraps.

Two scraps of documentation exist for the painting prior to Vasari's account.

And yet there's Abraham Cruzvillegas's wonderfully buoyant "Matière Brute," a balancing act of two scraps of lumber and red-surfaced sandpaper that updates Calder.

He compiled roughly a hundred and twenty thousand scraps of paper, or Zettel, in shallow wooden boxes, which he spread out on his desk.

She has stitched some three thousand scraps of burned paper she collected to hundreds of feet of cotton mesh, in an installation at the New Museum, which will waive its admission fee on Sept. 11.