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Meanings of rafter in английском
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Examples for "balk"
Examples for "balk"
1
Women balk, thrusting their children behind them; some try again to escape.
2
Biden wanted to make sure the most visible general would not balk.
3
Would he really balk at using the protomolecule to further his agenda?
4
Or perhaps forever, if he didn't balk at mass executions and torture.
5
If asked the courses, I balk after the recital of the soup.
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Many politicians may baulk when they see what the plans actually cost.
2
Mountain bikers power along ledges that a mountain goat might baulk at.
3
A mountainous and distasteful task, yet she did not baulk at it.
4
And many Asian clients baulk at paying much, if anything, for advice.
5
Oh, James was too much of a gentleman to baulk and run.
One of several parallel sloping beams that extend from the ridge to the wall-plate, to support the roof and its associated loads; the sloping top member of a roof truss, which carries the purlins.
See moreUsage of rafter in английском
1
She projected an amazing strength, even gagged and chained to the rafter.
2
Judith cackled, gasped, and suddenly, horribly, let out a blood-curdling, rafter-quaking scream.
3
She relaxed and stretched in a yawn, hitting a rafter of cork.
4
He tried to imagine Emily walking the big rafter in the barn.
5
She gripped the rafter in both hands, raising it like a club.
6
Wishing Keisho-in would be quiet, Reiko exerted her weight on the rafter.
7
A little while later I missed the book from the rafter.
8
She picked up the long end of the rafter and swatted his forehead.
9
Bigs had already found a heavy rafter and pounded down his roof spike.
10
Back at the stage tent Rufshod was perched dangerously on the rafter beams.
11
The police found him in the garage, hanging from a rafter.
12
One come in under the roof and knocked out a rafter for me.
13
And so one follows the track of Montaigne's mind from rafter to rafter.
14
Don't forget that she's been tethered to a rafter most of her life.
15
Strehlke had been discovered in his garage, hanging from a rafter.
16
An' he went straight tull the stable an' hung humsel' tull a rafter.
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