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Meanings of railroad tie in English
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Examples for "tie"
Examples for "tie"
1
Union officials said the motion would tie their hands in future negotiations.
2
The government plans to tie them to specific capital projects, she said.
3
Obama's budget solution would be to tie those loans to market rates.
4
The French company is often mentioned as a potential Fiat tie-up partner.
5
SPCA chief scientific officer Arnja Dale said banning rope-and-tie events was necessary.
1
Pockets of resistance remained in west Mosul, including sleeper cells, Mattis said.
2
The pose of the Indian was the natural one of a sleeper.
3
Catherine lost her super-sleeper status after complex shoulder surgery two years ago.
4
The pillows were arranged-thedraught given; but the sleeper never awoke again.
5
The regular breathing of the sleeper proclaimed the soundness of his slumber.
1
It leaned against the woodpile to the left, thick as a railroad crosstie.
2
And then I'd sleep like a weathered crosstie.
3
Sleeper - Railroad crosstie.
4
The crosstie the boy had stepped on had given way almost entirely and flopped downward lazily, swinging on a rotten rivet.
5
The bridge was okay, but the idea that I could balance me and a motorcycle on one narrow crosstie was a complete failure.
1
He sat down on a railway tie, not because he was tired, but because he was at the end of his rope.
2
Such impregnation methods double or treble the life of railway ties.
3
Then the last scene will probably be Eskimos laying railway ties.
4
The pressure-treated wood segment includes railway ties, utility poles, residential lumber and industrial products.
5
We crossed a large stream where railway ties were being rafted down the river.
1
Roland says that for every railway sleeper, there was one death.
2
He said Mr Scargill struck himself accidentally against what looked like a railway sleeper.
3
The railway sleeper bench, for example, bears the original drill holes and the mark where the track plates were.
4
Turning a railway sleeper into a bench isn't easy, either - drilling through a 70kg piece of oak is a struggle.
5
Kids play in a refuse pit between tossed aside railway sleepers.
Usage of railroad tie in English
1
The man would've made a railroad tie look like Charles Atlas.
2
The life of the average railroad tie is at least doubled by such treatment.
3
She set the glass down on the railroad tie.
4
He pointed to a railroad tie and kept going.
5
He jumped a rotten railroad tie in the lot.
6
The strength ran out of my legs and I sat down hard on a railroad tie.
7
Emily went to the living room and found him studying a book as thick as a railroad tie.
8
So Freddie Firefly crawled hurriedly into a chink beneath the railroad tie on which he had been sitting.
9
A railroad tie was sunk into the ground, the rope was removed, and a chain brought and securely coiled around the victim and the stake.
10
It was a pile of railroad ties, and beyond it loomed another.
11
A strike of the men on the railroads tied up transportation.
12
On the pile of railroad ties on the summer evening, he waited expectantly.
13
Melville Stoner loped along, walking on the railroad ties and talking.
14
The bar was constructed of unsanded railroad ties that still smelled of tar.
15
Between these fortinas were sentry stations of logs or railroad ties.
16
All shows walk back to New York on tan oxford and railroad ties.
Translations for railroad tie
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