"figure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In a mirror tracing task participants are asked to trace several figures as fast and as accurately as possible which they can only see in a mirror.
- His vision was the sort that could trace lurking figures where anyone else saw blank, but tonight there were no skulking figures resembling the pirates of the Pescadores.
- She thinks, tracing figures on the table, running her fingers over the dried water rings.
- A soft drawing pencil appeared magically in his fingers, and deftly he began to trace various figures on a square of drawing paper.
- With a click on marked passages you can trace and hear motifs, themes and transitional figures, or investigate Beethoven's use of keys.
- In between, she spent some time apparently tracing figures on the grass with her finger.
- Her hands moved in intricate patterns, tracing figures in the air.
- Manley, the Canadian champion, led after the first two rounds - the compulsories, in which skaters trace figures, and the short program, lasting no longer than 2 minutes 15 seconds.
- Ape polluted the warm evening with his pipe, and his horny fingers traced odd figures in the long grass.
- Barbicane, pencil in hand, was tracing geometrical figures in a memorandum book, while his unloaded rifle lay beside him on the ground.
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