Sentence examples for as a rail from inspiring English sources
She is thin as a rail and she's hot.
Houston developed as a rail centre, with 12 railways by 1891.
Built in the 1930's, the High Line was retired as a rail line in 1980.
"I was skinny as a rail, with no money or food".
"It's absolutely wrong, when you're operating something as potentially dangerous as a rail system".
Similarly, Louisville, Kentucky, a few hundred miles north-east of Memphis, developed as a rail and barge trans-shipment hub.
As a rail-splitter, he helped to clear and fence his father's new farm.
Ten years later a 65-mile (105-km) multiuse trail was developed as a rail-to-trail project.
This ICBM, conceived originally as a rail-mobile system, was deployed in silos in 1962, became operational the following year, and was phased out by 1973.
Mr. Wehrum, an intense and cerebral lawyer as well as a rail-thin marathon runner — he has run the Boston Marathon in a time of 3 hours 28 minutes — knows E.P.A. air pollution rules well.
Or the value is likely to be similar for everyone, but it is not obvious to the seller what it is such as a rail-operating franchise or a radio-bandwidth licence.Hammer and tongsThe battle for online-auction business is heating up.
