Sentence examples for a dragline from inspiring English sources

A dragline scrapes our fossicked floor.

The scraper dredge, also called a dragline, handles material with a scoop suspended from a swinging boom.

The pavement gave way to gravel and the gravel to dirt, and finally a narrow path in the weeds dipped through a dragline ditch and vanished into a cornfield.

Hamilton, in pinstripes and tasselled loafers, is a constant presence in the State Capitol, where he sees himself as an educator for lawmakers who shouldn't be faulted for not knowing "the difference between a dragline and a drag queen".

Spidroin-1 is one of the major ampullate silk proteins produced by spiders for use in the construction of the frame and radii of orb webs, and as a dragline to escape from predators.

And outside, where they normally have a lot of large metal sculptures — the grounds were being dug up and reconstructed — a dragline shovel nosing the rubble monstrously, and a woman and a child watching, motionless, the little boy standing on a bench with his smile and sideways eyes and his mother beside him, holding his hand, both so still, like a photograph of American ruin.

Here we show that a spider dragline has a torsional shape 'memory' in that it can reversibly and totally recover its initial form without any external stimulus; its observed relaxation dynamics indicate that these biological molecules have successively different torsional constants.

As a consequence dragline silk represents a composite material of high complexity.

In most species of spider, an individual lays a continuous dragline of non-sticky silk as the spider moves, and from time anchors the dragline to a surface with a spot of sticky silk.

Though promising advances have been made with a variety of transgene constructs and host organisms, an exact mimic of a native dragline silk fiber has yet to be produced [e.g. 30], [33] [35].

Like many species of spider, a P. schultzi lays a continuous dragline of silk as it moves, and from time to time anchors the dragline to a surface with a spot of sticky silk.