Sentence examples for a precise angle from inspiring English sources

A drawback of the Cobra Hide-a-Way sharpener is that knives must be held at a precise angle when drawn through the two crossed sharpening steels.

That morning, after some discussion, Crampton and the team chose a spot on a 45-degree slope almost directly below the nest, and cautiously began to erect the ladder: a free-standing spire with thin, round rungs that was balanced at a precise angle and then secured with ropes lashed to the surrounding trees.

Sunlight bounces off raindrops, splitting into its constituent colors and heading backwards at a precise angle, which makes a rainbow appear as a semicircle wherever you stand.

Speaking of which, I can recall only three stations that came in clearly on the TV -- assuming you taped the rabbit ears to stay at a precise angle.

The reflex gives rise to twitch in some of the muscles involved in closing the jaw, and occurs when the jaw is tapped from a precise angle.

Tiny holes in each k bridge are drilled at a precise angle so neither the pins nor bridge interfere with the vibration of the strings when the keys are struck.

"The stiffer the string bed, the less string will deflect, so the ball will come off the racket at a more precise angle," Lindsey said.

The device could be adjusted to a precise right angle by observing the same angle after turning the device approximately 90°.

One 13-year-old tells us he's been doing this since he was eight, and is proud to show us how dizzyingly fast he can remove the tongues, teaching one of the UK's most promising chefs – Robin Gill, of London's The Dairy, The Manor and Paradise Garage – how to impale the head on a spike at the precise angle needed to cut free the tongue in one heavy swipe.

He would spend up to six hours in a bedroom, searching for the precise angle that communicated the most about the soldier in a single frame or simply to wait for the most evocative light to come through a window.

In many cases, as the one above illustrates, the lay person has an incomplete understanding of anatomy, and fails to appreciate the precise angle and trajectory required to successfully complete a suicide with a gunshot to the head.