Sentence examples for a thin crack from inspiring English sources

Another, a youngster, has a thin crack across his skull, the imprint of a machete.

An X-ray of his right foot showed a spiral fracture, a thin crack coiled around one of his metatarsals.

When you can see a thin crack in the wall, dig it out and make it bigger, so you can fill it properly.

Heat can also shrink: a water-bearing synthetic unit like concrete block might be laid when green and when it dries there will be a thin crack between the block and the mortar.

Employing the skills he had learned in the New Zealand Alps, Hillary jammed his feet, hands and shoulders into a thin crack between a ridge of ice and the rock and, as he put it, "levered myself" up the wall.

For example, even a slow water flow of 0.1 m/s through a thin crack with a thickness of 1 cm has a large Reynolds number of approximately 103.

A long, thin crack runs up a craggy gray slab of rock outcrop overlooking the Hudson River in Fort Tryon Park.

Outside, if you stand in its gracious garden (where there's a very nice collectively run restaurant, by the way) and look back at the wall of the palazzo, you can see a long thin crack in the building, at the roof level – as if that earthquake had simply flicked a little finger, for a moment, in its direction.

"At this point, we are really focused on turning that door handle, and that door at first is going to open just a very thin crack," he said.

One particularly arresting shot shows a huge cave shrouded in darkness, apart from a starkly bright, thin crack of light that faintly illuminates the rocks in its path.

Since there arises a displacement discontinuity (Section 3), incorporation of such a split variable, or a "two-valued" variable, is inevitable in order to correctly express the response of an infinitesi-mally thin crack when the grid points for particle velocity (or displacement) are located on the crack plane.