Support for the rails in railroad tracks.
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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 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 .
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.
6 They quietly walked toward it, scrambling over old railway ties that had never been laid.
7 He takes the railway ties several at a time, all the while calling out encouragement to Jesse.
8 The Forestry Service under the Engineer Corps has cut the greater part of the timber and railway ties required.
9 Railway ties , however, cost nothing.
10 The elephants, it was clear, would have to swim, since walking the naked railway ties was impossible for them.
11 Tom, playing a minute ahead of his rival, kept finding his ball in the bunkers he had shored up with railway ties .
12 I built little huts of discarded railway ties , and lit camp-fires, for I was fearful of the crawling things I saw by day.
13 We also pulled out two fellows who had nearly drowned crossing a piece of water on waterlogged wooden crosses made of old railway ties .
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