"figure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- An incongruous figure in the long raincoat, square - jawed and stocky, he spoke unexpectedly.
- Surrounded by other men, Drame formed a rather incongruous figure.
- Wrapped in his white cotton sheet, perched on a chair and peering at us over his steel-rimmed spectacles, he looked a frail, incongruous figure.
- The comedy inherent in these two incongruous figures' being twins is thoroughly overwhelmed by a cluttered screenplay.
- He was an incongruous figure, now, in his shirt sleeves.
- She looked, somehow, an incongruous figure in the ornate bedroom of the expensive hotel suite.
- For a man with a populist mission, the 52-year-old Mr. LeClerc cuts a somewhat incongruous figure.
- "Not my doing," said the magician, incongruous figure of power against the shabby background.
- It was one of the ship's boys, Tolman, a small incongruous figure clutching an axe bigger than himself.
- The father's humility and naïve good-heartedness make him an incongruous, tragicomic figure in a world that doesn't live up to the pure ideals of myth.
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