Sentence examples for a long tow from inspiring English sources
The friend drove between two boats without seeing that they were joined by a long tow rope submerged in the water.
Captain Earl Jensen, master of the tugboat Flushing was piloting her down the Sound one afternoon with a long tow of sand barges when he came upon a score of Int.
The first sign of the Ezadeen's arrival had come more than an hour earlier when the Tyr's three masthead lights, signalling a long tow, appeared beyond the mole that forms one half of the entrance to Corigliano's spacious harbour.
By Lawrence Perry The New Yorker, August 24, 1940 P. 58 Captain Earl Jensen, master of the tugboat Flushing was piloting her down the Sound one afternoon with a long tow of sand barges when he came upon a score of Int.
Dr. B. came… Captain Earl Jensen, master of the tugboat Flushing was piloting her down the Sound one afternoon with a long tow of sand barges when he… The Rev. Dr. H. C. Benjamin, of St. John's Episcopal Church, Flushing, is, as far as I know, the only racing parson on the Sound.… Harry Maxwell is probably one of the four or five great amateur skippers this country has produced.
It is pure city poetry, a kind of shared memory, life as New Yorkers might want it to be: "I thought of a night a long time ago when I had a girlfriend aboard for a short trip and how at the same kind of midnight we went naked over the end of a long tow, each in the hempen eye of a dockline, screaming sure and mad off Wall Street as the dark waves struck".
1.16pm: At the back of the bunch, Tyler Farrar is getting a good long tow from one of the medical cars as he gets something on his leg, possibly an insect bite, sprayed by one of the doctors.
The device was determined to be a three-foot (.9-m) long TOW missile used in the training of federal agents and bomb-sniffing dogs; although actually inert, it had been marked "live" in order to mislead arms traffickers in a planned law enforcement sting.
Neither the fire nor the long tow back to port caused any injuries, the statement added.
They arranged for the long towing pole of the limber to overlap the trail of the gun, and then put up a dummy truck canopy over both.
Closer to our own times, Barbara Cartland made her name not only as a romantic novelist and staunch advocator of all things pink and fluffy, but as a developer of aviation technology: in 1984, she was given the Bishop Wright Air Industry Award for pioneering a long-distance towing method for gliders.
