How To Use Mirror In A Sentence

  • In the forecabins, the head and shower is located forward and has a large mirrored vanity with ample storage below.
  • We look in the mirror, do a lot of talking. Times, Sunday Times
  • More particularly, in the hoodedness of her eyes, she reminded me of Malvina Schalkova, the Prague-born artist posthumously famous for the sketches and watercolors she made in Theresienstadt, and whose self-portrait, mirroring an infinity of sorrow, I first became familiar with when I visited Theresienstadt with Zoë. Kalooki Nights
  • I often position an athlete in front of a mirror that has grid lines on it, ask them to close their eyes and stand up straight. Muscle Management
  • Prior to testing, stimulus males were kept for some days in aquaria with a one-way mirror on one side to acclimatize them with their reflected image.
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  • He caught a glimpse of himself in the mirror.
  • She makes a mouth in a mirror before she goes out every morning.
  • That's bushwa, this mirror and its brother mirror were created for my mother.
  • The manufacturers just don't strive to achieve a mirror-like polish nowadays.
  • In the mirror Dog saw a car nose round the end of the pantechnicon, then quickly reverse out of sight. THE ONLY GAME
  • The nature of both universal and human expression is identical, the universal being mirrored in the human entity.
  • This has caused many theoreticians to adopt a philosophical approach that mirrors the ideas of Plato.
  • He looked in the fogged up mirror at the reflection staring back at him.
  • I've never seen men look in the mirror so much.
  • It has lockable drawers, leather-lined jewellery trays and a cheval mirror. Times, Sunday Times
  • Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. Kahlil Gibran 
  • I found myself in a salon with a very well-painted, highly varnished floor; chairs and sofas covered with white draperies, a green porcelain stove, walls hung with pictures in gilt frames, a gilt pendule and other ornaments on the mantelpiece, a large lustre pendent from the centre of the ceiling, mirrors, consoles, muslin curtains, and a handsome centre table completed the inventory of furniture. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
  • Standing in front of the mirror she tweaked a strand of hair into place.
  • I stood in front of the mirror and looked at myself for a moment.
  • The type of damage being done to the cars ranges from wing mirrors being snapped off to glue being put in locks and tyres being slashed, with victims facing bills of hundreds of pounds.
  • The girl was aroused, her expression mirroring her mentor's almost exactly as she raptly observed the scene. In the Midnight Hour
  • His commitment to the police force is mirrored by his dedication to wrestling, a sport which he has served as both a manager and a competitor. Times, Sunday Times
  • But now I'm nailed to my leather seat as the speedometer passes 135 mph, the tach hits 8,200 rpm, and the church is a dancing dot in our rearview mirror.
  • Victor heard her stifle a cry as he held a small mirror for her.
  • Through the mirror was a looking-glass room, the reverse of normality. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
  • Pros, from what I've read, is that mirror pentaprisms are lighter, can be made smaller to save space, and are cheaper to manufacture than glass pentaprisms.
  • Or if I want to see a police officer in a time frame where the person concerned might be caught, I report a couple having a domestic, who called me a derogatory name ref my Race, Religion, or sexual preference (underline the relevant option) and just out of interest they broke the wing mirror on my car. Norfolk Constabulary. Pants On Fire. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • As she entered, I was standing in front of the oversized mirror wedged in between a dozen or so teenaged girls all scrambling to restore their fallen bouffants.
  • A beamy old former fishing boat carried us across to Caldey's landing point on a beach that mirrored Tenby's, and was sprinkled with sunbathers.
  • There is also a light box with a photo of King's bruised face which turns into a mirror reflecting the viewer's face.
  • The prints made from such a plate are of necessity mirror images of the original drawings.
  • A 2-year-old Phil, a natural right-hander, insisted on swinging a golf club left-handed so that he could mirror his dad.
  • But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more. Hamlet
  • En route to the recital she was cranky, giving me the cold slitty eye-beam treatment in the rear view mirror.
  • The small lake at the base of the fort is mirror-like, in which a diverse group of birds admire their reflections.
  • There were Art Deco lamps everywhere, and mirrors, and brass fittings, and fresh flowers. TICKLED PINK
  • Alicia returned her attentions to the mirror and slipped her favourite pearl drop earrings into her lobes.
  • Today, there is no evidence that the gist of his boffo performance on February 5 was anything other than smoke and mirrors.
  • In the mirror we see the face; in wine, the heart. 
  • A Ford sedan, the very symbol of middle-class moderation, offers electrically heated outside mirrors, for crying out loud.
  • An object as viewed in a plain mirror is perverted from its actual appearance.
  • He saw himself reflected in the water/mirror/shop window.
  • Tapan contemplated the cracked image of his own face in that mirror for a long time.
  • Caspar, a blessing of a human being, with his expression as open as a convex mirror. CONFESSIONS OF AN UGLY STEPSISTER
  • The rain poured down harder, mirroring both of their moods.
  • They wore mirrored armor that would deflect a number of shots until the enamel wore off and only plain steel lay beneath.
  • A mirror reflects a picture of you when you look in it.
  • Dreadful!" moaned Sister Ann. "Adnah goes about sighing all the day, and looks over-long in the mirror, and takes unseemly pains with her dressing, and does up her hair with flowers, and has feverishly pink cheeks, and likes to sit in a corner and brood, and takes long walks by herself, and especially, _especially_, seems fond of moonlight! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)
  • To look in the mirror without judgment or negative anticipation can be a useful suggestion at particular times in some treatments. Eating Problems: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Treatment Model
  • Some have suggested she was holding a spear and shield proudly aloft, others that the goddess of beauty held a mirror - to admire her own reflection. Times, Sunday Times
  • Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he. 
  • I am on the left and in thrall to Karl Marx, Gul tells Sri Lanka's Daily Mirror. Pakistan cricketer calls on Marxist in case for the defence
  • She is very slim, just leaving behind her gawkiness, and she begins to hike her skirt up in front of the mirror.
  • The light that passes through this mirror is the laser beam. The laser at 50
  • The stage was marvellously decorated to look like a shabby pub with its bar stools, spongy seats, Guinness mirrors and jukebox.
  • The sun was shining high overhead but it wasn't mirrored in the water.
  • The room for the media conference was searched by sniffer dogs and security officers with metal detectors and mirrors. The Sun
  • Venus' face is a blurred reflection in a mirror and in Mars (which depicts the unheroic body of a strong old man got up in drapes and a helmet) the face is in shadow.
  • I straightened out the bow on the sash at my waist and examined myself in the mirror once more.
  • I didn't really need one, I just guessed there'd be mirrors in the toilet area, and I wanted to check my appearance, to see if I really did look work-shy and/or simple.
  • The stallion's hide shone like a silver mirror and his hooves were the hard blue of sword steel. The Falcons of Montabard
  • Responding correctly to a mirror image requires the creation of a rather peculari form of dual representation or 'mental diplopia', and this subtle ability may be compromised by the right parietal lesion. I Can't Reach It; It's Inside the Mirror.
  • He could see his reflection, turned gaunt and ashen, in the fragment of mirror propped against the lavatory window.
  • They provide instant cosiness: hang around a mirror or picture frame. Times, Sunday Times
  • After a few more tries, I finally gave up and turned to examine myself in the mirror.
  • The nature of both universal and human expression is identical, the universal being mirrored in the human entity.
  • This has profound implications for our relationship, which should mirror that of Gods; caring and nurturing love for us.
  • He is also wearing glasses that in the mirror reflect light so it appears that he cannot see his eyes.
  • Once in the cab, the excellent all-round visibility is particularly notable, with large tinted windows, wing mirrors and an adjustable rear view mirror.
  • To eliminate the variable of aesthetic and perceptual bias, they also included some mirror-images.
  • In a caravan of unmarked coaches they went to La Fillon’s hôtel particulier, which was done up in the modern taste—rococo, mirrors, pastel colors, much white and gold, with rounded commodes by Charles Cressent, encrusted with gilt bronze. THE DIAMOND
  • The trees were mirrored in the still water of the lake.
  • I held textbooks of basic surgical techniques up to mirrors to see if the diagrams of knot tying made any more sense. Times, Sunday Times
  • The two boys were blind, also, to the manifold glories of Mirror Lake which reposed at their very feet. DUTCH COURAGE
  • It has a bath with shower attachment, a toilet, two hand basins, bidet, cabinets with mirrored doors.
  • With its mellow stonework and battlemented towers, mirrored on the surface of a broad moat skimmed on a summer day by turquoise dragonflies, Bodiam is everybody's idea of what a castle should look like. The House Impregnable
  • Whether they do so or not, let's hope he takes a good look in the mirror over the coming months, learns from Botham's errors, acknowledges that Garry Sobers was the exception rather than the norm, accepts his vincibility and sets greater store by the runs column than the wickets.
  • After collimation, the central part of the measurement beam travels to the target retroreflector through an annular mirror that returns the outer annulus of the beam, which acts as the reference.
  • It is what drama is all about: a highly polished mirror reflecting the realities of a messy, urban world. Times, Sunday Times
  • Do place a shaving mirror close to the shaver socket.
  • The movie is a mirror of daily life in wartime Britain.
  • Yet now and then you feel the tug, standing in front of a full-length mirror, fantasizing about cannonball shoulders and chiseled biceps.
  • On one shoulder was fixed the painted figure of an owl; and he bore in the right hand his pastoral staff, and in the left a small mirror having a handle to it, thus resembling a celebrated jester, whose adventures, translated into English, were whilom extremely popular, and which may still be procured in black letter, for about one sterling pound per leaf. The Abbot
  • She spun away from the mirror and hurried downstairs, forcing the curling tension aside.
  • Staring into the mirror at her ruined hair, she promised: `I'll ga you for this. I.O.U. - SOMEONE HAS TO PAY
  • I had a dialect coach on the set of the film and he advised me to look at myself naked in the mirror, to tame myself. Times, Sunday Times
  • On the low podium at the far end of the building is a similar construction which mirrors the simple rose window behind you.
  • She was looking in a mirror.
  • Professional: The trail of broken promises at home is mirrored by a trail of broken contracts at work.
  • We must be able to look in the mirror and realize that indeed we are the good guys here.
  • Shee's any good man's better second selfe, the very mirror of true constant modesty, the carefull huswife of frugalitie, and dearest obiect of man's heart's felicitie. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
  • The watery theme continues with multi colored shells in blue and green hues on the ceiling and windowed walls covered in a mirror material that's been antiqued to somewhat successfully resemble seawater.
  • The best kind of storytelling is when writers turn a mirror on ourselves, and that mirror shows us a lot of conflict. Archive 2006-07-01
  • His interior pieces on display include medieval banquet tables, slender candlesticks and chandeliers, and mirrors.
  • The play, she hoped, could serve as a mirror for us to see our own reflection, which eventually, might mend the broken love between us.
  • Significantly, the route he has chosen will mirror that taken by his late father, Fred, who was a fusilier in World War Two.
  • The bed, the mirror, the white jug and basin gleam like the sky outside. Bliss, and Other Stories
  • The steady increase in obesity has mirrored the neurotic and obsessive interest in food. Times, Sunday Times
  • Deception by mirrors has a basis in optical principles, in so far as reflections in mirrors do not correspond wholly to the objects that caused them.
  • It's like something you could put on the stereo while fixing your student bouffant in the mirror.
  • Their eyes never broke away from their gaze, each mirroring those nameless emotions coursing through them.
  • In addition to testing exterior mirrors, vibration tests are also run on interior mirrors for convertibles that mount to windshields that are not supported by a header.
  • Mirror rolled again, sideslipped vertically past the lead D4. The Final Reflection
  • I checked my reflexion in the mirror and smiled to myself.
  • Rachel gave herself a last glance in the mirror before she left for the party.
  • A tower rises from the ground, surrounded by mirrors. Times, Sunday Times
  • We would wish to pursue further the criminal frauds committed by Robert Maxwell and others associated with the Daily Mirror.
  • The restaurant has been treated partly in monochrome to allow the tabletop illuminations to stand out and partly with further graphics (inspired by the colour choices of kaleidoscopes and origami for an Asian feel) to mirror the strong graphic sense created by the tabletops. Inamo Restaurant Interior by Blacksheep
  • Both have entertained, amused and mirrored life and the fantasy of life for millions. Times, Sunday Times
  • The exhibition will showcase a special range of shawls, stoles, garments, sarees, scarves, caps, gloves, sweaters, durries and fabric in embroidery, mirror work, weaves and natural dyes.
  • The extracts quoted by Eutocius from Diocles’ On burning mirrors showed that he was the first to prove the focal property of a parabolic mirror.
  • The only problem is, not unlike many government announcements, the claim has a hint of smoke and mirrors. Times, Sunday Times
  • In this way, of course, money only mirrors other aspects of our political moment, where the prevailing mood generally seems to swing from one kind of antiestablishment ethos to another. NYT > Home Page
  • Talking with Kate the other week, I was saying I needed to get a mirror as the glass doors on my pantry weren't quite cutting it.
  • Marvelling at all the glass, all the metal and glass of modern London, the boiled chrome and hi tech mirror walls. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
  • She also carries out these effects on furniture, including kitchen units, dining sets, chairs, mirrors.
  • In the sovereign workmanship of Nature herself, what garden of flowers without weeds? what orchard of trees without worms? what field of corn without cockle? what pond of fishes without frogs? what sky of light without darkness? what mirror of knowledge without ignorance? what man of earth without frailty? what commodity of the world without discommodity? The Common Reader, Second Series
  • A console table, bench, mirror and clothes hangers are also available. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is what drama is all about: a highly polished mirror reflecting the realities of a messy, urban world. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then she caught her reflection in the mirror and looked herself squarely in the eye.
  • Amy Winehouse 'remarries' Blake Fielder-Civil on Facebook - Telegraph. co.uk Calls for comic to quit after joke on forces 'amputees - Mirror. co.uk Popbitch
  • These are shaped to the desired contours and are usually made of hardened tool steel ground and lapped to a mirror finish.
  • The mirror shattered into a thousand pieces.
  • Sheffer -- who knew what makes business men laugh -- pinned his simple faith to three main subjects, convulsive of the diaphragmatic muscles, building up each series upon the inherent humor to be extracted from physical violence as represented in the perpetrations and punishments of Ruff and Reddy, marital infidelity as mirrored in the stratagems and errancies of an amorous ape with an aged and jealous spouse, and the sure-fire familiarity of aged minstrel jokes (mother-in-law, country constable, young married cookery, and the like) refurbished in pictorial serials through the agency of two uproarious and imbecilic vulgarians, Bonehead and Buttinsky. Success A Novel
  • Mirrors were on the right side of the wall, making the room appear much larger than it really was.
  • Sales of electronics and batteries here mirror the international trend toward buying cordless, portable goods.
  • Through the mirror was a looking-glass room, the reverse of normality. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
  • Daguerreotypes have extreme depth and detail, together with an elusive, glittering, mirror-like quality that shifts between negative and positive images.
  • Mirrors in a room often give an illusion of space.
  • THE Bible contains the history of the human race in epitome; is the mirror in which every age and every generation may see reflected its own features and complexion. Moses and Joshua
  • Among the curiosities are the necklace [FN#682] of human bones given to Burton by Gelele, some specimens of old Istrian china picked up in the cottages near Trieste, and a three-sided mirror and two crystals with which Burton used to mesmerise his wife. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
  • Have you seen how TOYota loves pimping their bakkies with "chromed" side mirrors, bumpers and some fancy (yet boring) chrome detail on their pathetic radiators? Undefined
  • Her story loosely mirrors the author's own experiences as the indentured servant of a mean-spirited and violent woman.
  • This new experience of displacement and loss mirrors what happens at the beginning of the book, when the women first set sail from Japan. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Walls work as barriers, but better as mirrors. Times, Sunday Times
  • Onto this rubber membrane we attached a tiny piece of silvered glass, which acted as a mirror.
  • Poussin's use of mirroring armor to encompass something beyond the representation is self-conscious and finds its closest parallel in another work by van Eyck.
  • I saw his talking face, bleached to steel by the frosted mirror. Times, Sunday Times
  • The full-width chromium-plated bumpers have a mirror finish and all badging is fitted and correct.
  • Silicone adhesive will bond the frame permanently to the mirror.
  • On this panel, Brunelleschi painted a view of the baptistery from a representation that he had traced on and over its mirror reflection.
  • The overmantel contains its original rectangular mirror plate and has a moulded bead and leaf frame measuring 83 centimetres high by 150 wide.
  • The wing mirrors and wheels can also be personalised. The Sun
  • Elaine braced herself against the dresser and looked in the mirror.
  • Cut your choice of molding to fit around the mirror and paint it, using neutral colors or a brushed gold or silver.
  • Mirrors, which started out as simple and functional, became a hot trend in decorating when manufacturers added sandblasted and beveled characteristics.
  • Typical projection optics designs feature NAs of around 0.25 and consist of at least six aspherical mirror surfaces, with reflections tilted off-axis.
  • Standing in front of the mirror she tweaked a strand of hair into place.
  • I could spend hours just staring into the mirror, pulling daft faces.
  • She angled the mirror so as to reflect light from a window.
  • The crème blush comes in a handy compact with mirror. Times, Sunday Times
  • Each cylindrical mirror is balanced on the slimmest of supports: one steel wire, as thin as dental floss, that is attached to the gallowslike frame.
  • STRENGTH AND HOW TO OBTAIN IT which, designed particularly for commercial men engaged in sedentary occupations, were to be made with mental concentration in front of a mirror so as to bring into play the various families of muscles and produce successively a pleasant rigidity, a more pleasant relaxation and the most pleasant repristination of juvenile agility. Ulysses
  • She is deeply attached to symmetry, and thus to the repetition and change obtained when images are mirrored.
  • His findings mirror those of other studies elsewhere on the eastern coast.
  • Gillian Anderson is supremely self-contained, demonstrating a subtlety in her performance that mirrors the style of the film.
  • I like to think that the odd grey hairs I notice in the mirror are really, really pale and glinty brown, like the rest of my head. Ten Things Tuesday « The Life and Times of Organic Mama
  • Phone down this instant and order champagne, strawberries and a mirror for over the bed. JUST BETWEEN US
  • The truth is that a lot of young people do not invent it for themselves; they emulate other people, who should also look very hard in the mirror.
  • Taking control can transform the way we see our world beyond the mirror or the scales. The Sun
  • A lowery sky, and from it flecks of silvery light dropping lightly, like mirrored feathers. EVERVILLE
  • To the front, a yew hedge is clipped into swags to mirror the ogee windows of the house, framing views of the Bringewood hills and Welsh Marches in the distance.
  • He began meticulously glueing pieces of broken mirror glass onto the interior wood paneling.
  • Never mind bomb-proof glass – Lost in Showbiz does hope the mirrors with which Simon's home is said to be lined are shatterproof. Cheryl Cole's loss could be the US X Factor's gain
  • The marble-topped washstand was fitted with towel rails, a mirrored splashback, and a neat little cupboard. NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
  • His batting probably mirrors his personality more than for most cricketers.
  • Behavior is a mirror in which everyone shows his image. 
  • Her old, very natural look has certainly been replaced by a supersmooth face that bounces light away like a mirror. The Sun
  • Please, I beg you, look in the mirror in the dressing room.
  • So take our full-length mirror challenge and workout your health status. The Sun
  • In a stone-quiet room with many pools of different temperatures and salt consistencies, we went into soft-yellow lit booths, side by side, and washed before our individual mirrors. Karin Badt: An All-Night Bath Experience In Tokyo (PHOTOS)
  • In Ireland a chancellor presided over a separate court of equity which mirrored the development of the English equity system.
  • I moved the weights to the front, staring straight ahead into the mirror, watching closely to make sure that my arms didn't dip or drop.
  • Lucky, for once, to hold a real world object in the purview of your self-substantiation, the speeding taxi, super-fly, armor-plated insect god can only act as mirror in the beading rain, cancelling out any offer of assurance. The Mockingbird Sings
  • The play is to be perceived as a satire on big business, which these piddling rogues try to emulate and, in their puny way, supposedly mirror.
  • According to TMZ. com, the casket, called a Promethean, will feature a blue velvet interior and a hand-polished, mirror finish. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • The walls were lined in mirrored squares and there were even small spotlights reflecting off everything.
  • A large mirror in a room can create the illusion of space.
  • Police believe Tony was struck a glancing blow by the wing mirror of a transit-type van.
  • Always focus on the front windshield and not the rearview mirror.
  • The bright pink stripe mirrors the two main lines of the F-Type shape. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sarah walked over to the antique dresser and mirror set and assumed a gloomy appearance. ‘After all, my grandmother just died,’ she thought.
  • There's a reason why he only shaves once a week - mirrors are expensive.
  • Mobile clubbing is a mirror image of a terrorist outrage. Mobile Clubbing Hits the Streets | Impact Lab
  • Sweden's remarkable literary jury has for the second consecutive year held up a mirror to the values and politics of our times while honoring the eternality of great art.
  • Giant cell, fourth mitotic division showing replicated mirror image dicentric chromosomes and acentric fragments (arrows).
  • They put the audience on the other side of a one-way mirror, and you watch them watch the show.
  • What they see in the mirror is a hideously distorted vision of themselves which disgusts and horrifies them, often to the point when venturing out into the world is a painful and traumatic experience.
  • In the 1960s, Hugh Cudlipp of the Daily Mirror dismissed the Press Council as "an exercise in futility". Murdoch's malign influence must die with the News of the World | Observer editorial
  • This weekend I stood looking in the mirror wearing a floaty floral dress. The Sun
  • According to Alfred Harmsworth, founder of both the Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, news is "what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; the rest is advertising".
  • Holding his religious mirror up to his face, he carefully dotted paint on his own. Times, Sunday Times
  • Little information is directly employable for end-user tasks, such as printing booklets, mirroring Web sites or searching through e-mail.
  • George walks over to the mirror, puts his finger on it, and it immediately frosts over. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Tom’s Review Forum
  • You may find it helpful to perform this exercise in front of the mirror.
  • Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he. 
  • Lab Rat said, his expression mirroring the doubt in his voice. Joint Operations
  • This mirrors the experience of many housebuilders, who say they cannot make a profit in economically inactive areas. Times, Sunday Times
  • I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness. Drew Barrymore 
  • Thus, some obscurities and confusions in Chappell's account mirror the reality of the civil rights struggle itself.

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