Sentences with figure
fig·ure
F f - It would be very nice if we had a true figure of how many people in this country haven't got a job.
- Alistair saw the dim figure of Rose in the chair.
- Former Sex Pistols manager and influential figure in music has died aged 64.
- A close associate of underworld figure Carl Williams was granted bail yesterday despite police fears that he is a danger to the community.
- ...a life-size bronze figure of a brooding, hooded woman.
- Take pride in your health and your figure.
- A former NSW prisoner has been awarded a six- figure sum in compensation for injuries suffered after falling from a bunk in his cell.
- Zellweger does her best to round out the figure of Anne, who.
- The movement is supported by key figures in the three main political parties.
- Sometimes young lads just need to turn to a mother figure for a bit of a chat and reassurance.
- If you look at a world map (see Figure 1) you can identify the major wine-producing regions.
- Draw a pentagon, a regular five-sided figure.
- She figured that both she and Ned had learned a lot from the experience. [VERB that]
- When I finished, he said, 'Yeah. That figures'. [VERB]
- Human rights violations figured prominently in the report. [VERB + in]
- A figure of 1800 was suggested
- He's good at figures
- A girl with a slender figure
- A figure in politics
- The figure of Napoleon
- Father-figure
- His name figures in the article
- It figures that he wouldn't come
- A great social figure
- The figure 5
- Very good at figures
- You figure in all my dreams
- Poor food figured in his ill health
- To be poor at figures.
- To be round, square, or cubical in figure.
- A slender or graceful figure.
- A tall figure stood in the doorway.
- A well-known figure in society.
- A controversial political figure.
- To make quite a figure in financial circles; to present a wretched figure of poverty.
- The frieze was bordered with the figures of men and animals.
- The dove is a figure of peace.
- Draperies with an embossed silk figure.
- The circle, square, and polygon are plane figures. The sphere, cube, and polyhedron are solid figures.
- To figure up a total.
- I figured that you wanted me to stay.
- His name figures importantly in my report.
- He quit the job when he didn't get a raise—it figured.
- For example, while Figure 1 shows information for 516 visitor groups, Figure 3 presents data for 1,625 individuals. A note above each graph or table specifies the information illustrated. . . . For example, although Joshua Tree NP visitors returned 525 questionnaires, Figure 1 shows data for only 516 respondents.
- A figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble
- Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
- He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain.
- The origin of the corset is lost in remote antiquity. The figures of the early Egyptian women show clearly an artificial shape of the waist produced by some style of corset.
- The muslin was of a pretty figure.
- Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, [ …] . It was with a palpable relief that he heard the first warning notes of the figure.
- I can't figure if he's telling the truth or lying.