Sentence examples for an overhead wire from inspiring English sources

The falcon is there, where he thinks it will be, on an overhead wire.

There is an overhead wire to perch on and gape at the world from.

In another photograph, Bill Brandt reattaches a trolley to an overhead wire in a tableau from this year's exhibition.

The electric locomotive is not self-sufficient; it picks up current from an overhead wire or a third rail beside the running rails.

The electric multiple-unit trains, which can seat 1,000 passengers or more, derive their power from an overhead wire system.

A more serious issue for some potential residents may be that the Lower East Side, unlike the East Village and several other Manhattan neighborhoods, does not have an eruv — a zone demarcated by an overhead wire, within which Jewish law, in some interpretations, allows believers to perform certain activities on the Sabbath that would otherwise be prohibited.

(However, the Blizzard of 1888, which dropped 21 inches of snow, brought 60 m.p.h winds and led to an order that all overhead wires be buried, did earn its own entry).

The results from this and earlier studies indicate that a reduction in overhead wire levels has a general positive effect by reducing the collision rate.

For an electrical railway overhead wire system there are two main factors which crucially affect the quality of current collection.

Power comes from a 750-volt overhead wire.

Electrical power is supplied to such a rapid-transit vehicle through sliding connections to an energized rail or overhead wire.