"layer" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Rich food in enormous quantities had piled layer upon layer of fat and the heart worked under almost impossible conditions.
- Piling layer upon layer, drawing and smearing, adding and erasing, vanishing and reappearing, he rings the changes on a face that is continually in transformation.
- Trisha Orr makes rather successful densly dizzying representational paintings that function much like abstractions in the way they generate churning surface energy from a busy crush of elements piled layer upon layer.
- A sticky site is one that keeps users glued to it, either through sheer intrinsic niftiness or by piling layer upon layer of more-or-less-related offerings, like stock quotes, weather updates or interactive whiz-bangs like sports trivia quizzes.
- On lake bottoms and seabed, shells, bones, and silt have piled, layer on layer.
- It makes no sense to pile layer upon layer on one's torso and wear nothing but stockings or thin pants on one's legs.
- It seemed to him that a human city must wear out almost at once, becoming so choked with living experience that only the strongest of the Old Ones could bear to visit its deserted streets and grok in contemplation the events and emotions piled layer on endless layer in it.
- Ghost's breezy dresses and chiffon shirts and skirts are usually piled layer on layer like puff pastry.
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