Sentences with phrase «like eggshell»

In bathrooms, kitchens and halls (especially if you have kids who touch the walls), I like eggshell — it works in well - ventilated bathrooms and in kitchens, but not too close to the cooking area.

If you're concerned about the texture, use either a low sheen paint (like an eggshell or even flat finish).

It will be flatter, more like an eggshell.

When soft colors like eggshell, beige, and faded brown appear in her works, they highlight adjacent white shapes, drawing the viewer's attention to it as positive, rather than negative space.

Marked by their luxuriant use of materials, different styles, and incongruous combinations — like an eggshell nesting in a bronze tablet — the objects sit on the floor with an air of nonchalance.

In fact, it comes up trumps for natural wonders, like eggshell - coloured beaches and fish - filled coral reefs.

Even with testing done primarily in Eco mode and skewed heavily toward highway driving — an area in which Kia tells us the Optima should excel — and treating the accelerator pedal like an eggshell, we were only able to get the trip computer to hang just below the 31 mpg mark.

The 908 was built around a spindly alloy tubular spaceframe, which the bodywork wraps like an eggshell, only thinner.

Perhaps something like eggshell would look better.

It will be flatter, more like an eggshell.

His helmet had broken like an eggshell.

There was a security, love, and wonder I sensed (at an early age) that only Catholics had ¯ the hushed, steepled churches and the priests; the parish school with veiled nuns whose black habits swept the floors; the picture of the pope on the bedroom wall, a strange man with what looked like an eggshell on his head who gave the sense of a wider world and eternity.

Not exact matches

The Problem: Eggshell economy, Yo - Yo Stock Market, Blue chip stocks are no longer necessarily paying out like they use to.

I have known people who think they have to walk on eggshells around God, like He is looking for every small thing that we do wrong.

I like to mix an egg with 1/2 eggshell full of water, beat it up, and use it as an egg - wash.

«I am constantly reminded of the eggshell - thin line that separates loving from loathing» she wrote in her HuffPo column, «The Fine Line Between Marriage and Divorce,» which women passed around like it was a joint.

It must feel like walking on eggshells for an adoptee to live in an Either / Or world.

This is perilous: if the government decides it doesn't like the look of a private member's bill its chances of survival are about the same as an eggshell in a room seething with toddlers.

The reason may be an eggshell - like mineral layer that the virus acquires due to the high calcium concentration in the intestines of birds.

During this period, known as the Middle Stone Age, humans developed the first symbolic art, like engraved pieces of red ochre and ostrich eggshell containers.

Advances in imaging technology are helping scientists find new details like this even in objects as familiar as a chicken eggshell, says Lara Estroff, a materials scientist at Cornell University who wasn't part of the research.

And the blobs, being relatively fragile, somewhat like big empty eggshells, collapse and leave standing behind as hollow pillars only the connected walls on the inside of the ring.

«If your neurologist can't tell you if your next seizure is a minute from now or a year from now, you live your life in a state of constant uncertainty, like walking on eggshells.

Such fissures are very common on Enceladus, making the moon, which is generally bright white in color, sort of look like a giant cracked eggshell.

In a healthy relationship, neither party should feel like they have to walk on eggshells to «keep the peace.»

(Sidenote: My kids love drawing faces on the eggshells so the seedlings look like «hair.»

if you can't eat at least 6 meals a day and walk around like you're walking on eggshells to prevent impact injuries that come with weighing over 200 pounds, don't expect to get freak muscle, or to not get health issues.

... I would like to make this eggshell recipe, what are the proportions?

Nothing will entice you more to dress for the sun quite like a bright white corset, an ivory peasant blouse, or a poplin shirt in eggshell.

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Earthy hues like Ivory, off white, vanilla, eggshell white and cream where the base hues of the entire collection and accents of Gold Zari were seen in forms of intricate hand embroideries, each representing a memory with it's elements.

I picked up this little Wet N Wild eye shadow trio in the shade Walking on Eggshells for $ 2.99 a few months ago after realizing I didn't have any drugstore eye shadows that I liked.

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I feel like I'm walking on eggshells a bit.

While you should never feel like you're constantly walking on eggshells when you're in a relationship, there are certain topics and behaviors that are best avoided, especially at the start of your relationship.

As Calcifer, the eggshell - eating fire demon, Billy Crystal delivers a few lines with his trademark mock - frustration, but like the rest of the cast, his primary interest is in serving his character rather than getting laughs from his usual persona; as such, there's nary a hint of Mike Wazowski in there.

There are quite a few people on this magazine, myself included, who like a lairy rear - drive car, but there is a difference between being able to give the accelerator a decent prod to easily unhook the grip of the rear tyres and feeling like you're treading on gossamer - thin eggshells through a turn because you're tryng not to break traction every time you press the throttle pedal.

One of the best bits of the Soul's performance is that I didn't have to drive it like an «eco car» with an eggshell pedal.

The thud of that beast working was like the struggle of my own beak, trying to muzzle my way out of the eggshell, or the clap of the flicker, drumming away at the bark, or the rhythm of the wind, my mother's song, the pause of nightfall.

I try to be supportive, but I feel like I'm walking on eggshells.

Eventually add a calcium supplement (such as eggshell) but add it like you would an ingredient and wait to see if there is a reaction.

Many people like to dry and powder the eggshells for some extra calcium.

Powdered eggshell contains calcium carbonate, which is highly bio-available like calcium phosphate, found in bone.

Some dogs even like to eat the eggshells because they contain ample amounts of bone - building calcium.

Instead, they feel like they're walking on eggshells, fearing for their safety.

Since we love our pets like children, we certainly wouldn't feed our kids chicken feet and eggshells for breakfast, so why would we want to give this to our dogs and cats?

Coming from Canada where you count holiday time like pennies (and then walk on eggshells to request it), the initial vastness of long - term travel made us overwhelmed and overconfident.

Dealing with them was like walking on eggshells all the time, from reservation to check - out.