Sentence examples for ballast on from inspiring English sources

The cylinder is anchored to gravel ballast on the sea floor.

Brick by brick, the slender, winding streets were laid with cobbles that arrived as ballast on Spanish galleons.

Some racers skied with as much as 71 pounds (32 kg) of ballast on their skis to increase their acceleration.

The line's 3m concrete sleepers are being cast there, and the ballast on which they will lie is quarried nearby.

The bricks in the fireplace were probably brought over as ballast on a boat that brought the immigrants.

The only locally available water is collected from roof catchment systems, and water is imported as ballast on ships returning to Nauru for loads of phosphate.

The bridges were of the same structural type, but the tracks were ballasted on one and ballastless on the other; the noise level of the former was 13 dB(A) lower than that of the latter.

They say that ships that take on ballast in one port and discharge it in another may be an important factor in the global distribution of micro-organisms, with implications for the epidemiology of waterborne diseases.

That lineup has started to fray, with the All-Star second baseman and No. 3 hitter Chase Utley out indefinitely, and the right-handed ballast and on-base master Jayson Werth down in Washington, having cashed in on his excellence here.

Finally, starting from the results of these tests, possible countermeasures to ballast lifting on-set are proposed.

It shortly passes Quarry Siding, where a halt and passing loop are located, this is the site of a small old shale quarry, the rock from which was used for ballasting on the railway.