Sentence examples for upon a short from inspiring English sources

She waited for her opening, seized upon a short ball and pummeled it for a winner.

Often it is erected against a pillar and sometimes upon a short, free-standing base or slender column.

While rereading the novel, Mr. Bleasdale stumbled upon a short "back story" that described how Oliver actually came to be born.

The park testers descended upon a short water pump spouting a circular sheet of water shaped like a mushroom or a jellyfish.

Modifications in these latter transcription units may thus impact upon digit morphology, through misregulation of Hoxd genes, thus illustrating the "buffering effect" that such a global regulatory element can exert upon a short genomic interval.

"You is SO not an arse," she tells Henry, after he has done a stint in the Priory (a "frickin' good" place) and embarked upon a short tour of family members to apologise for his sexual misdemeanours.

He came upon a short-staffed restaurant that offered him a job in the kitchen on the spot.

Fielding Lucas alongside Mamadou Sakho, who offers more typical centre-back qualities, Klopp has stumbled upon a short-term solution to Liverpool's defensive woes.

But now he comes upon a shorter fence, of which no one has spoken.

When I established my first law practice, I relied upon a short-term loan to start the firm.

Moreover, de novo lipogenesis is not induced upon a short-term dietary fat challenge in human subjects [24], [25].