Example sentences of "scattered like [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no escape from it — that Damocles sword of a war on the first day of which all the chartered covenants of princes will be scattered like chaff : a race war which will subject the whole of Europe to devastation by fifteen or twenty million , and which is not raging already because even the strongest of the great military states shrinks before the absolute incalculability of its final result . |
| 2 | Polished linoleum , a shining , glass sea , with rugs scattered like islands . |
| 3 | Against that background , we have the lavish life of the Prince Regent , whose bills are scattered like confetti throughout the exhibition ! ’ |
| 4 | Out on the ramp beneath the lights and the arrows of rain and the madhouse tannoy squawking links and rechts : fathers , mothers , children , the old , scattered like leaves in the wind . |
| 5 | You will find the speeches scattered like jewels throughout the text , but it is perhaps as well to keep to the simpler ones for your audition piece — those where Romeo and Juliet are directly enthralled by love and the declaration of love to another person . |
| 6 | That scattered like twigs |
| 7 | The wheels soon graunched against a broken stone wall , and a worry of goats scattered like demons in the dark . |