Support for the rails in railroad tracks.
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Examples for "sleeper"
Examples for "sleeper"
1Pockets of resistance remained in west Mosul, including sleeper cells, Mattis said.
2The pose of the Indian was the natural one of a sleeper.
3Catherine lost her super-sleeper status after complex shoulder surgery two years ago.
4The pillows were arranged-thedraught given; but the sleeper never awoke again.
5The regular breathing of the sleeper proclaimed the soundness of his slumber.
1It leaned against the woodpile to the left, thick as a railroad crosstie.
2And then I'd sleep like a weathered crosstie.
3Sleeper - Railroad crosstie.
4The crosstie the boy had stepped on had given way almost entirely and flopped downward lazily, swinging on a rotten rivet.
5The bridge was okay, but the idea that I could balance me and a motorcycle on one narrow crosstie was a complete failure.
1The man would've made a railroad tie look like Charles Atlas.
2The life of the average railroad tie is at least doubled by such treatment.
3She set the glass down on the railroad tie.
4He pointed to a railroad tie and kept going.
5He jumped a rotten railroad tie in the lot.
1Roland says that for every railway sleeper, there was one death.
2He said Mr Scargill struck himself accidentally against what looked like a railway sleeper.
3The railway sleeper bench, for example, bears the original drill holes and the mark where the track plates were.
4Turning a railway sleeper into a bench isn't easy, either - drilling through a 70kg piece of oak is a struggle.
5Kids play in a refuse pit between tossed aside railway sleepers.
1He sat down on a railway tie, not because he was tired, but because he was at the end of his rope.
2Such impregnation methods double or treble the life of railway ties.
3Then the last scene will probably be Eskimos laying railway ties.
4The pressure-treated wood segment includes railway ties, utility poles, residential lumber and industrial products.
5We crossed a large stream where railway ties were being rafted down the river.
6They quietly walked toward it, scrambling over old railway ties that had never been laid.
7He takes the railway ties several at a time, all the while calling out encouragement to Jesse.
8The Forestry Service under the Engineer Corps has cut the greater part of the timber and railway ties required.
9Railway ties, however, cost nothing.
10The elephants, it was clear, would have to swim, since walking the naked railway ties was impossible for them.
11Tom, playing a minute ahead of his rival, kept finding his ball in the bunkers he had shored up with railway ties.
12I built little huts of discarded railway ties, and lit camp-fires, for I was fearful of the crawling things I saw by day.
13We also pulled out two fellows who had nearly drowned crossing a piece of water on waterlogged wooden crosses made of old railway ties.
Translations for railway tie