Sentence examples for along its back from inspiring English sources

The "tiger" of China, known as early as the Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 256 bce), is a vessel scraper of wood with a series of notches cut along its back; it is scraped with a split bamboo stick.

Get other people to run their hands along its back so it won't be wary around the judges.

Metaspriggina had large eyes (towards the left in the photograph) and, though boneless and therefore spineless, had a characteristic structure called a notochord running along its back to stiffen it.

When it does, you can stroke it gently with one finger along its back, the way the fur grows.

It was not expecting to be characterised and scrutinised in this way, the strange, cordillera-like bumps along its back, the odd, scratchy, green surround within which it is contained.

One of the spikes along its back flew off, and Dorian ducked just before it smashed his nose.

In 1968, looking to expand one of his Stockholm outlets, the owner Erling Persson acquired the store next door, Mauritz Widforss, along with its back stock of gentlemen's outdoor clothing and sporting goods.

As the day dies, light slants along the trees and splashes shadows along its whitewashed back.

With the mansions along its winding back roads now awash in hedge fund money, Greenwich has joined New York, Los Angeles and Silicon Valley as must stops on the presidential fund-raising tour, with prominent locals now boasting of candidate scuff marks on their basketball courts, Secret Service T-shirts in their closets and framed pictures of their children with the candidates on their mantels.

The study underlines the importance of the U.K. government's decision to put in place a tech-oriented computing curriculum earlier this year, along with its backing for initiatives such as the U.K.'s Year of Code.

You spend whole, unrecoverable minutes of your life gazing at a caterpillar arching its back along a wooden fence.