"figure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He was like a mechanical figure, its hands actuated by pressure upon a hidden spring.
- By the end of the 19th century, electricity had made new tricks possible, and mechanical figures went out of fashion.
- Its mechanical figures put on an intricate show, beginning at four minutes to the hour, that is free for all who pass by.
- In it is a weird room, with many strange mechanical figures.
- He attends to the detail work of the mechanical figures.
- The Shadow knew that they must have been mechanical figures.
- The mechanical figures were fabricated outside the store, by a company in Brooklyn.
- Living dead men, who moved about like mechanical figures!
- The regularity of the man's step made him appear like a mechanical figure.
- Like a mechanical figure he was moving toward the radio, as if drawn by some invisible force.
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