"figure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He felt morally superior to this abject figure.
- They are abject figures, more victims than brutes, which makes them feel entitled to lash out everywhere.
- Huddled in a far corner of the room was an abject figure trembling in terror.
- Segal's concern with social and political issues is expressed in "The Homeless" (1989), a stark tableau of two abject figures posed theatrically.
- Mr. Hutton didn't say anything, but looked down in silence at the abject figure of misery lying on the bed.
- Joe Smallwood is for most of the story an abject and plaintive figure, and the narrative, which is primarily in his first-person voice, tunnels deeply into his self-doubt.
- Dorothy's thin, flushed face paled as she regarded her sister's abject figure.
- He was an abject figure.
- He kicked the abject figure and strode out, shouting commands in, a voice that cracked with fury.
- Big Daniel came to them at last, dragging with him an abject figure.
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