"figure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mr. Revill's unusual milieu is old bits of wood or furniture that he carves into birds and birdlike figures within the self-framing constraints of of the wood.
- In a solo called "Recidive," Hela Fattoumi is a birdlike figure who moves constantly on the balls of her feet while playing with balance and imbalance.
- Shadow was certain he had seen it before, this ghostly, birdlike figure.
- Megan Williams and Marianne Moore echo each other as birdlike figures; a different symmetry comes from Tina Fehlandt and Mireille Radwan-Dana in the beginning.
- "I've lugged this rubbish from Matabeleland to Cape Town and back," complained Jan Cheroot disgustedly as he stood back from the graven birdlike figure on its stone plinth.
- She made it all the way to the top - a tiny, birdlike figure, her legs poised like wings, her eyes big as saucers - and then, on the way back down, the bowls fell and shattered in the ring.
- It had a flapping, birdlike figure in the center, with three circles around it.
- She disappeared for a moment, then reappeared; disappeared, reappeared - a tiny birdlike figure - bright blue plumage against the dreary wood.
- "When John lived with us in Naples, he once told us that he had seen a big black evil birdlike figure over his shoulder in our family room," the elder Mr. Salvi said.
- The beasts, birdlike figures with webbed feet and sweeping tail feathers, wear outrageous hats that look as if they were made by a surrealist-minded milliner.
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