Sentence examples for central pod from inspiring English sources

Last Sunday, about 800 miles west of Ireland, Team Philips was hammered by the third in a series of vicious storms and the boat's central pod, which houses the crew quarters and the vessel's steering system, incurred serious damage.

It takes the old cliché of the minivan as a rolling living room and gives it a new twist by placing the instruments and controls in a central pod -- like the television and stereo in the family room, said Tom Semple, president of Nissan Design America in San Diego.

A limited number of P-38s were fitted with a bombardier's position in the nose of the central pod; termed "droop-snoots," these were used to lead formations of P-38s carrying two 2,000-pound (900-kg) bombs each, the entire formation dropping on the bombardier's command.

For the airframe they adopted a unique "twin-boom" configuration, in which pilot and armament were contained in a central pod and the engines were mounted in mid-wing nacelles extending back into tail booms that mounted twin rudders and were joined by a horizontal tail.

"Like most of the 57 apartments in the building," states the listing, "[it] includes a central pod, a glossy free-standing cube in the center of the apartment that contains an efficiency kitchen and bathroom".

Guests at pod central include Sid Lowe, Raphael Honigstein, Kevin McCarra, Jonathan Wilson and Ken Early.

The pilot project anticipates two central clusters, or pods, offering plug-in cars for rental: one downtown and the other at the airport.

These structures formed by growing the space between the pods without further growth of the central cube, and their pods kept on stretching to the eight apexes of the central cube.

This does not necessarily preclude significant variation among individual seeds; in peas, for example, the seeds occupying the central region of the pod are the largest, probably as the result of competition for nutrients between developing ovules on the placenta.

Similarly, an untitled piece by Pamela Brown, with its pod-like central element held aloft on a graceful pedestal of iron rods, looks like a model of a rocket launcher or a counterpoint of closed and open curves.

Winners will receive £40,000 investment each and will also enjoy space in a high-spec office in central London, with specially designed pods for each of the ten winning teams, and close mentoring and support from both Wayra and UnLtd.