"figure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The main players here are, for the most part, little more than stock figures of romance.
- We find it useful to have someone available as a stock figure to represent or stand for certain kinds of person.
- The professional correspondent became a stock figure in farces and films.
- Which is not to say that the bombshell must be a stock figure, immune to broader cultural change.
- On paper, Rajani is another stock figure: the lonely woman left at home with the children while her husband marches forth to his great works.
- The people were tiny stock figures who came with gestures to match.
- What would be the effect on the profit if goods costing £6,000 were excluded from the opening stock figure?
- There are no statistics on public or private stocks, until some commercial stock figures were kept in 1943.
- He felt as though he'd come to in the middle of a movie and looked about for stock figures.
- But stock figures are not unique to film and television.
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