I hankered for candles, and flicked off the overhead lights.
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State technicians sprayed a chemical called luminol on the floors, then flicked off the lights.
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She flicked off the lights and I found myself looking at Monet on a stage.
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It might have been his work on addiction—flicked off like ash from his own struggles with smoking.
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Instead, it was flicked off the edge, like a napkin or a toothpick, back to the base of the forest.
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And how individual cards could be flicked off the top of the screen when the user was done with a particular app or task.
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Somewhere, right now, and some high school somewhere in the world, a teacher has flicked off the lights, and booted up a PowerPoint presentation.
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Wedging his way in behind that peculiar high forearms, elbows forward guard, Golovkin flicked off pecking jabs which gave Canelo scanty openings into which he could counter punch.
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This meant that players had to predict the trajectory of the ball, as well as keep track of where exactly their paddle was when the screen flicked off.
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Suzy Scherr, a chef and cookbook author who lives in Chappaqua, N.Y., examined her blade on Wednesday and, to her shock, flicked off a small piece of metal.
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I even flicked off several of the Republican committee members in the privacy of my home to relieve my mounting anger and frustration over the pompous hypocrisy on display.
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It's going to be heartbreaking if we have to watch her wake up in her bed again, her memories wiped and all her precious independence lost like a light switch being carelessly flicked off.
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Line cooks flicked off their stoves and turned on the radio, families and friends gathered in front of TVs, and the faint sounds of Mr. Armstrong's disembodied voice danced through the corridors of buildings around the world.
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The match at the Luzhniki Stadium had already seen the first own goal in a World Cup final when the ball flicked off Croatia striker Mario Manduzkic and past his own keeper to put France 1-0 up after 18 minutes.
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In the 10th minute, Moralez sent a pass forward that Villa flicked off his heel to Tajouri-Shradi, who turned it with a 22-yard line drive into the upper left-hand corner of the net for a 1-0 lead.
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But all eyes have already shifted to the Senate, where the reality of tax reform is starting to bubble up: It's complicated, it's difficult and, at some point, the cruise control would be flicked off and this would start to get real.
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But as the lighting designer Nicholas Houfek flicked off the room lights and aimed a purple strobe at the falling stream, something magical happened: After some tuning of the frequencies of sound and light, the water seemed to stop moving, forming arches in the air.
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Recently, by following the legacy of the Chipko movement, in 2017 rapid deforestation over the century-old trees, forming almost a canopy in Jessore Road of the district of North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, has also flicked off a huge movement in the form of the campaign of saving 4000 trees by the local masses. On 26 March 2018, a Chipko movement conservation initiative was marked by Google Doodle on its 45th anniversary.
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Among the Toda people in the Nilgiris, the pied bushchat or kāŗpiłc, is a bird of omen and the origin of its white wing patches is described in a story of a dairy priest Piu.f who in the ritual of churning milk forgot to remove the churning stick before fetching water from a stream. The bird attempted to obstruct him by blocking his path but he disregarded it and flicked off butter from his hands. The white spots remained but Piu.
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Brian McClair made a run down the right wing and floated a cross to the back post, where captain Bryan Robson was waiting to head goalwards. His header flicked off John Pemberton's shin and evaded Palace goalkeeper Nigel Martyn. It was 1–1 at half-time. In the second half, Manchester United went ahead for the first time in the game, when a cross-shot from Neil Webb found its way to Mark Hughes who fired low into the corner.
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Playing defensively to try and draw the Test match against Australia, Gooch blocked a short ball from Merv Hughes. The ball flicked off his bat and fell towards his stumps, prompting Gooch to instinctively punch the ball away: Australia won the match by 179 runs. The dismissal of Daryll Cullinan in 1999 was the second instance in ODIs: facing the West Indian spinner Keith Arthurton, Cullinan fended the ball off into the ground. It bounced high in the air, and Cullinan removed his right hand from his bat to catch it as it fell again.
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George and Harold (now Fluffy and Cheeseball) get Captain Underpants (now Buttercup Chickenfanny, but refuses to take the professor's order to change names) to steal Professor Poopypants' enlarging machine, but he and the machine are shrunk in the process. The two of them try to enlarge the school back to normal size, but get flicked off the school. Harold makes a paper airplane that George enlarges and after many dangers, Underpants rescues them. George enlarges Underpants to the gerbil's size, then he defeats Professor Poopypants and everyone's names revert.
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