Sentence examples for drop rocks from inspiring English sources

But the poetry of Bausch's work is more apparent in arresting, serious moments — when Heredia, slumped over a giant pole, is whirled around the stage; when Jasjfi's body is rung like a bell; when the women arch back and drop rocks from their hands; when Deluy comes on carrying a tall tree on her back, and sets it down and rests at its base.

Just like in Aesop's fable, the highly cunning New Caledonian crow has enough reasoning ability to drop rocks into tubes of water and raise the level of a floating snack.

And when they do all drop rock and slink off, he just turns to the woman and tells her to go home and not to do it again.

The bridge stopped carrying water in 1958, though the walkway remained open until the 1970s, in spite of reports that people dropped rocks onto boats passing below.

Soon, the Democratic presidential aspirant Lyndon Johnson declared, the Russians would be "dropping bombs on us from space like kids dropping rocks onto cars from freeway overpasses".

Captive elephants have been seen problem-solving by moving boxes to reach food or dropping rocks on to electric fences to cut supply.

I made my way up spiral stone staircases and peered through ancient arrow slits and ceiling gaps — nicknamed murder holes — through which defenders dropped rocks and poured boiling oil.

Decorative machicolations (openings of the sort used in earlier eras for pouring pitch and dropping rocks on attackers) appear in the parapet at the top of the building.

The sapping was difficult and dangerous and the sappers worked under continuous attack from the castle's defenders, who fired on them with small arms and the castle's artillery and dropped rocks and debris on their heads.

Instead of relying on IDF helicopters impotently machine-gunning Zekes, Jerusalem could have been saved by a few teenagers dropping rocks and boiling oil on to the zombies below.

In Scotland, where she is also known as Beira, Queen of Winter, she is credited with making numerous mountains and large hills, which are said to have been formed when she was striding across the land and accidentally dropped rocks from her creel or wicker basket.