Sentence examples similar to floor grain from inspiring English sources

Instead of enjoying the formalized beauty of a fighting discipline, we see a lot of flailing movement and bodies hitting the floor like grain sacks.

When olivine grit is spread on the sea floor, the grains are kept in motion and bump and rub against each other.

"It makes me cry when I'm in Nampula in Mozambique and the women are there on the floor, sorting the grain by hand, trying to get the very best grain together and then send it to Europe," says Peter J. Cotty, a plant pathologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in Tucson, Arizona.

On another occasion, he invites her to dip her bread in his oil (today, we might call that a pick-up line), and when Ruth later approaches him to confirm his interest in her, it's on the threshing floor where the grain is kept.

Sand the floor following the grain.

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Dip a mop into a bucket of water, wring it out completely, and run it over the floor with the grain of the wood.

While strip flooring normally comes in pieces cut lengthwise from lumber, end grain flooring comes in sturdy blocks cut from the ends of pieces of lumber.

Mr. Wismer discovered end grain flooring while designing a Coach store with another architect.

Dufner Heighes, a New York interior design firm, has put end grain flooring in a number of recent projects.

End grain flooring from Oregon Lumber Company (800-824-5671 or oregonlumber.com) starts at about $5.50 a square foot and comes in assembled strips up to 34 inches long.