Sentence examples for using as inspiration from inspiring English sources

Among the multitude of year- and decade-end lists of books, there is one you probably won't be using as inspiration for stocking-stuffers — simply because most of the books on it don't yet exist in the United States.

Using as inspiration the adventurer Pierre de Brazza's African explorations, the designer played with rough, sandy textures and faded palm prints, creating with artistic elegance dusty, gray open-work knits and jackets in patchworks of sand-beige suede.

That kind of education might help designers to dig deeper, like using as inspiration the spiders' webs of electric wires spun across the city or the remnants of Portuguese colonial architecture rather than more predictable ideas taken from nature — although fragile butterfly wings were used in broken patterns to great effect by Lanre Da Silva-Ajayi for her LDA label.

Shostakovich wrote the programmatic symphony in 1957 as a tribute to the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution, using as inspiration the events of the "Bloody Sunday" people's revolt of 1905, when hundreds of peacefully protesting workers were shot by the czarist police.

In this context, it is possible to enhance the error resilience of typical predictive video coding schemes using as inspiration principles and tools from an alternative video coding approach, the so-called Distributed Video Coding (DVC), based on the Distributed Source Coding (DSC) theory.

Are there any confessional novels that you used as inspiration, or that you particularly admire?

Students should view their classmates' art and try to guess which piece of literature was used as inspiration.

The concept of birds in flight has been used as inspiration, but never with some complexity as at Issey Miyake.

The work was used as inspiration for both the men's wear and the women's early spring collection.

Q. Was there any music you used as inspiration for the sound or feel of this album?

Now all brands are constantly building from their pasts — not least because history is used as inspiration.