Sentence examples for a scroll is from inspiring English sources

The keepers of the scrolls, people like Pnina Shor, head of the conservation department of the antiquities authority, are delighted by the intense interest but say that each time a scroll is exposed to light, humidity and heat, it deteriorates.

A scroll is a journey through real time: one hand unrolls it as the reading or looking progresses, the other hand rolls up the part that has been perused.

"George's involvement in the Yankees was huge, so I don't think putting his name on a scroll is all that they'll do," said Michael Kay, the Yankees play-by-play announcer on the YES network and the co-host of Old-Timers' Day ceremonies with John Sterling, who does the team's play by play on radio.

When a scroll is rolled, the backing layer stretches to accommodate bending while the decorated top layer compresses, creating a difference in elasticity over time.

It's part of the attempt to limit their exposure to light; after each showing, a scroll is given at least a year of "rest" in the dark, says Pnina Shor, head of conservation for the Israel Antiquities Authority.

The calligraphy is similar to that of other hieratic manuscripts of the New Kingdom; the text is written in horizontal lines across wide columns (often the column size corresponds to the size of the papyrus sheets of which a scroll is made up).

Each panel, which recalls a Biblical scroll, is a 31- by 22-inch rectangle.

Unlike books, curling up with a good scroll is a bad thing.

If your case comes with a "free" scroll, chances are that it is merely a photo copy or printout and not the real thing since a Kosher scroll is hand written by a scribe.

The bypass mechanism, when added to a fixed scroll, is used to prevent over-compression and liquid slugging.

Restoring a handwritten Torah scroll is a long and complex process, Dr. Ray said, and he expects the work on Temple Isaiah's Torah to take several months.