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Meanings of railway sleeper in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sleeper"
Examples for "sleeper"
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
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.
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.
Usage of railway sleeper in English
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.
6
The slipstream spun them beyond the railway sleepers, into a drift.
7
It is extensively used for wood-paving, piles, jetties, bridges, boat-building, furniture, and railway sleepers.
8
Great underground towns, twenty feet below the surface, all roofed in with steel railway sleepers.
9
IN MY GARDEN I HAVE … Some vintage railway sleepers as the garden bed border.
10
Wildbore Book Cover Bush Whacker Camp Bush Burn Car in Totara Reserve Carting railway sleepers.
11
They make it into fleece clothing or railway sleepers.
12
A great source of cheap, grade-A railway sleepers.
13
As a young and fit man Roland was sent to work reconstituting railway sleepers for the 'death railway'.
14
Outline the paper "garden" with an edging of bricks, logs, railway sleepers or whatever you fancy.
15
A simple slogan had been put up by two industrious ladies that said, 'We knit nighties for railway sleepers!'.
16
The wood cladding on the outside of Broadhurst Park references railway sleepers and United's Newton Heath train company origins.
Translations for railway sleeper
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