Sentence examples for blocks of glass from inspiring English sources

Blocks of glass can be cut or drilled with diamond-impregnated saws and drills.

The allee will be lined with six-foot-long granite bench slabs that almost seem to float on blocks of glass illuminated from within by light-emitting diodes.

The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center was designed as something close to an architectural essay in glass - four long blocks of glass that would turn what could have been a squat, warehouse-like building into a shimmering ornament.

They created these thick blocks of glass with optical features — not quite lenses or tunnels, but sort of light guides — that funnel light from a large area on the sunny side of the window onto a much smaller cell on the inside.

President Obama, though, outsmarted his detractors who were as dense as the blocks of glass they hoisted in his path.

By trapping air within them, blocks of glass fiber make good thermal insulation, with a thermal conductivity of the order of 0.05 W/(m·K).

Some, they say, will lay flowers at the base of the memorial's wall, a long block of glass the color of an old-style Coke bottle.

More familiarly jocular is the Block Lamp by Harri Koskinen of Finland, which consists of a light bulb embedded in a block of glass that suggests ice.

Rather than employing a solid block of glass, the Arizonans have used a disc of it that has a honeycomb network of spaces penetrating its interior.

They managed this trick not by creating an Earth-gobbling black hole on a benchtop but by firing pulses of laser light into a block of glass.

The simplest prism is a triangular block of glass with two faces at right angles and one at an angle of 45°.