fog bank

Example Sentences

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“It would have been dangerous because of the steep slopes, and it would be going up into the fog bank and then back down out of the fog. So it was inherently dangerous,” Roberts said.

From Los Angeles Times

His answer was lucid as a fog bank and inspiring as a stalk of celery.

From Los Angeles Times

But this isn’t a legally enforceable standard—it’s a verbal fog bank.

From Slate

She learns to use her head, and to master fear: “It was as if, for her whole life, she had been dumb and patient, like a milk cow. Now she reminded herself of Query, flicking his ears this way and that, but trotting on. She felt her fear slip away, rather like the morning fog bank receded into the bay and the sunshine lit up the sky.”

From Los Angeles Times

What is meant to sound like an antislavery argument transforms itself in midpassage into a verbal fog bank that descends over the entire subject like a cloud.

From Literature