Sentence examples for a plumb bob from inspiring English sources

"I'd wear jogging pants to work and the guys used to joke that, 'You could drop a plumb bob from the back of your head and the string wouldn't hit anything before it hit the ground,' " he said, referring to the weight on a string used for surveying.

You may have a peephole at the base of the unit, or you can use a plumb bob.

Use a plumb bob to reference where the staircase's center pole will be by hanging it from the top landing to the floor below.

From the end of each of the four arms hung a plumb bob.

It can become a spirit level, a surface level, a ruler, a protractor, a plumb bob and more.

Do - use a plumb bob to mark an exactly vertical line before hanging your first piece of wallpaper and remember that door frames and windows are often not plum (exactly vertical), especially in old houses.

Most convincing is a giant gold-leafed plumb bob bearing esoteric symbols and a clunky series of bronze humanoids based on medieval anthropological speculations (Johnson).

1. Shunt and plumb bob, a whirring top That keeps touching down on its pivot.

by Sharon Levy 1.Shunt and plumb bob, a whirring topThat keeps touching down on its pivot.

1.Shunt and plumb bob, a whirring topThat keeps touching down on its pivot.

Included among the classics are beautiful everyday objects not necessarily seen every day, like the brass-and-steel plumb bob, a must-have on any construction site, designed by O. J. Kuker of Seattle around 1948.