Sentence examples for engineering masterpiece from inspiring English sources

Mine almost left my head when Ms. Diaz showed off a white lace 42DD that she trumpeted as "an engineering masterpiece".

Like the construction of the original canal, an engineering masterpiece that opened in 1914 after 10 years of work by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the expansion project is a daunting task, but for different reasons.

An engineering masterpiece of the 18th century, the Bridgewater Canal was executed by James Brindley, a brilliant, self-taught mechanic and engineer in the service of the Duke of Bridgewater.

But those relatively simple ingredients, the springy and the salty, are woven together into such a complex cat's cradle of interdigitating layers that the result is an engineering masterpiece of tensile, compressive and elastic strength.

The road is an engineering masterpiece along which would have passed the Emperor Hadrian, Cicero, Greek historian Strabo, and the Tony and Cleo show – as well as millions of plebs like us.

An increasingly frequent menace in Thames Water's 68,000 miles of sewers and other systems around the country, these grease balls are blocking Joseph Bazalgette's engineering masterpiece, which was designed to save London from the 19th century's big stink, not the 21st century's big burger.

One reason she remained in Britain (she became a British citizen in 1989) was the extraordinary ingenuity of British engineers, a tradition that goes back to the Victorian era, when they created such engineering masterpieces as the Crystal Palace (originally erected in Hyde Park to house the Great Exhibition, in 1851), and Paddington Station (1854).

It could easily win a prize as a masterpiece in engineering.

His ironic introduction of C3PO as a "masterpiece of engineering, an amazing droid" only came to a stop when conductor Brosse turned and looked at him in mock disgust.

It was no ordinary wall, either, but a masterpiece of engineering and design, some 15 feet high and 8 feet thick, involving 27 million cubic feet of stone and rolling through open moorland, wind-swept fields, craggy hills and dense forests, with milecastles (lookout towers) marking every Roman mile, as well as minicastles, major fortresses, miniforts, turrets and bridges.

But remember that everything Steve Jobs touched was a masterpiece of engineering in a world where "just OK" is increasingly the norm.