Sentences with word «thimbleful»

A historical survey organized by Ralph Rugoff, it included an image of Mount Ararat carved on a grain of rice by Hagop Sandaldjian (creator of microminiatures for the Jurassic Museum of Technology in Los Angeles), chewing - gum sculptures by Hannah Wilke, and Michael Ross's thimbleful of dust.

Your guests will come back after finishing their thimbleful of soup and demand more!

The hitch, so far, has been that the most promising tubes — single - walled nanotubes (SWNTs), consisting of one layer of carbon atoms arrayed like rolled - up chicken wire — can be made only by the thimbleful and can cost up to $ 2000 a gram.

By sequencing whatever DNA emerges (called eDNA) from even a thimbleful of ancient soil, researchers are reconstructing ancient ecosystems as far back as 700,000 years ago with astonishing clarity.

«If the birds insert a gram or more of treated cotton — about a thimbleful — it kills 100 percent of the fly larvae,» Clayton says.

They are so dense that a thimbleful of neutron - star material would weigh 100 million tons.

You, know, it's just a thimbleful, so... we shot some good close - ups we ended up taking out that made her intentions a little clearer.

But then Porsche dropped its hydraulically assisted steering — an equally important part of the Porsche DNA, we'd argue — for a fully electric setup in a bid to save what amounts to a thimbleful of fuel.

Purebred breeders are used as a scapegoat to push mandatory spay / neuter laws on to an animal - loving population (that is already well on its way to «doing the right thing» without the big stick) when proportionately they contribute hardly a thimbleful to the gallon bucket called «overpopulation».

Purebred breeders are used as a scapegoat to push mandatory spay / neuter laws onto everyone when proportionately, breeders of purebred dogs and cats contribute hardly a thimbleful to the gallon bucket called «overpopulation».

So for the next meal, less than a thimbleful of water went into my cat's chow.

[2] Imagine, in light of this recent study, a slightly revised analogy: as each thimbleful is removed from the ocean, a cup of water is added.

A half - sucked lollipop resting on a thimbleful of road salt resembles a beloved curio, and a whorl of hair adhered to a strand of thread could be a pot shard excavated during an archaeological dig.

On top of it all, you can also receive duplicates of items with only a thimbleful of coins to show for it.