Sentence examples for with a teacup from inspiring English sources

"It's emptying the ocean with a teacup to try to address our societal drug problem".

All the pilot projects, surgical insertions, and eelgrass-planting afternoons amount to bailing out the Titanic with a teacup.

"There wasn't a piano for Chick to play, so he just tapped out the rhythms with a teacup and spoon".

It also has been attacked at least four times — with acid, with a rock, with red paint and even with a teacup, which was purchased at the museum and hurled by a Russian woman angry that she had been denied French citizenship.

"Every day, it's like we are trying to bail out a ship with a teacup," she said.

While requiring them to insure people with pre-existing conditions is progress, it's kind of like bailing out the Titanic with a teacup.

He'd wash a sink full of dishes with only a teacup's worth of hot soapy water.

And the whole thing ends with everybody raising a teacup and saying, "Hip hip hooray for Kim!" And then everybody went home, and I swear there was a brownout from all the simultaneous phone calls that were being made, dispensing the information.

Let's start with a tempest-in-a-teacup at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.

All he could picture was a teacup with a tiny chip in its rim.

If you see a teacup with an incorporated cooling fan sketched on the page, you're inclined to smile.