Sentence examples for unyielding surface from inspiring English sources
What remained was a cold, unyielding surface for a writer's imaginings to fall upon: the permafrost of organised ambivalence.
You need a sharp knife and a strong arm and the composure to hack away at a warty and unyielding surface, made doubly unpleasant by writhing extrusions and matted, fibrous hair.
According to the applicable codes, a transport cask must withstand a free-drop impact of 9 m onto an unyielding surface and a free-drop impact of 1 m onto a mild steel bar.
In an article for The Municipal Engineers Journal in 1917, Mr. Vickers explained his use of mosaic tile: "This bit of color set in the hard unyielding surface gives a joyous note like a banner flung from the barred window of a frowning medieval castle".
A vibration can occur if ones buttocks are pressed too firmly against a hard unyielding surface and the particles will often reverberate off it leaving a pleasurable sensation for the person who is farting but a not so pleasurable noise and sound.
Hard walks on unyielding surfaces, which matches my mood.
Elephants in zoos have shorter life expectancy than those in the wild: they spend too much time standing on unyielding surfaces that eventually cause incurable, painful foot and joint problems, arthritis, and osteomyelitis (terminal bone disease), leading zoos to euthanize them, often in their mid-40s.
If you work in a hair salon as a hair stylist, a bank as a bank teller, a waiter, waitress or chef in a restaurant, a sales person in a department store or walking and standing at a trade show, your feet are exposed to hard unyielding floor surfaces that can beat you up.
Much has been made of the luscious quality of his wax-and-pigment encaustic surfaces, but as often as not they're turgid, unyielding.
Russia is equally unyielding.
