Sentence examples for upon a rare from inspiring English sources

We'd been walking for four hours when I pounced upon a rare rambler.

Three years ago, archivists at A.T. & T. stumbled upon a rare fragment of computer history: a short film that Jim Henson produced for Ma Bell, in 1963.

When I went for a walk around dawn the other day, I came upon a rare flicker of encouraging evidence about the Chinese economy.

By Evan Osnos February 9, 2009 When I went for a walk around dawn the other day, I came upon a rare flicker of encouraging evidence about the Chinese economy.

In the process, Mr. Wu hit upon a rare moment when a tech sector in China is developing in lock step with a similar but separate market in the United States.

Early in the play Dexter talks about coming upon a rare copy of Mr. Gurney's privately printed autobiography, which reveals that he had affairs with many famous actresses, including Cameron Diaz and both Audrey and Katharine Hepburn.

What Ms. Thornton had stumbled upon was a rare reference to stack pie, a sugar-laden confection of four to seven pies stacked on top of one another, often spackled together with caramel frosting.

Upon thermal annealing a rare well-arranged corrugated-rod-type (CRT) morphology, comes up gradually.

Flagellum assembly in Plasmodium is unusual because it occurs in the cytoplasm and assembly is not dependent upon intraflagellar transport, a rare feature also reported for Drosophila sperm (Han et al., 2003; Sarpal et al., 2003; Briggs et al., 2004).

Retail and video-game industry analysts say the sale of the hardware, and the games played upon them, could be a rare bright spot this holiday season, though perhaps not as bright as previously projected.

This makes its decay rate dependent to a measurable degree upon its electron configuration – a rare occurrence in nuclear decay.