Then a noise like that of marbles rolling across a hardwood floor.

Think of a square table, with marbles rolling about on the surface.

Like marbles rolling on a warped rubber surface, the bodies then move about in ways determined by the bending of space-time, and so on: everything is dealt with together, including any observers.

"We were like marbles rolling around in the Astrodome," Sharry Goldman, a longtime fan, told me.

A long, even flow of separate drops, like marbles rolling away in a straight line, like the sound of a man's heart.

If one likens electrons to marbles rolling on the floor, then the bandgap can be thought of as the height of the floor.

The crowd loosened, like marbles rolling in all directions.

In the process, positively charged ions fly through the center, slow down as they approach the positively charged outer grid, then stop and fall back toward the center like a marble rolling back and forth in a bowl.

Like a marble rolling along a crack, trajectories are confined to the sliding mode.

The statistics slowly gathering in Richmond like marbles rolling into the ring were sobering.