Sentence examples for be sheathed in a from inspiring English sources

In the system he has proposed, the exhaust blast of plasma would be sheathed in a tubular exhaust of ordinary gas.

Uranium fuel elements can be sheathed in a metallic blanket containing, for example, 10 percent zirconium and 90 percent uranium depleted of its uranium-235 content.

The whole thing is proposed to be sheathed in a full-height skin of glass, bringing all the usual metaphors of transparency and reflection, and allowing the structure to "dissolve into the park".

The bridge over Central Avenue, which connects the original Galleria with its companion structure, called Galleria II, will be sheathed in a stained metal-panel finish, according to the plans.

His model, he said, was sheathed in a black plastic shell, so he did not see its design.

Corn's female organs are sheathed in a sort of vegetable chastity belt — surrounded by a tough, virtually impenetrable husk.

The exterior is sheathed in a glass curtain wall, over which is a lattice of metal pipes.

The interior has been sheathed in a thin perforated pearwood veneer, arranged in overlapping panels that suggest airplane flaps.

Aquatic Centre The Olympic pool is sheathed in a huge plastic skin, patterned on the structure like a soap bubble.

To the east of the swooping line, the building is sheathed in a vaguely copper-colored, pinkish glass, set in horizontal panels.

She was sheathed in a tweedy Burberry coat, its black-gray palette understated almost to a fault, as if to deflect untoward stares.