Sentence examples for for a billiard from inspiring English sources

The metal headboard of a bed was in the pit, and an advertisement for a billiard table.

They walked into an enormous foyer, bare except for a billiard table and a display case with a collection of rare weapons: antique sabres, ornate pistols, an engraved machine gun.

Compared with such escapades, hiring a dozen Australian craftspeople to design elements like a eucalyptus-leaf weather vane or marquetry panels depicting silver-leafed gum trees for a billiard room modeled on the Cabinet rooms of Parliament House in Canberra, is but a trifle, an art project writ extremely large.

For example, our observation of a billiard ball's ricocheting from the cushion can be resolved into impressions of a particular configuration of color and figure (the billiard ball) moving closer to another (the cushion), touching it, and then moving away from it.

For example, "a billiard ball hit another and made it move" is a genuine causal process, while the intersection between their shadows is a pseudo-process.

What we take to be real causes for example the motion of a billiard ball that collides with another that then begins to move are in fact only occasional causes, the occasions for the operation of the only real cause.

The model, which we call a random billiard, is an example of a random dynamical system based on the idea of a billiard system with geometric microstructure.

A few lines later Hume describes this example as follows (EHU 4.10; SBN 29): "When I see, for instance, a billiard-ball moving in a straight line towards another; even suppose motion in the second ball should by accident be suggested to me, as the result of their contact or impulse; may I not conceive, that a hundred different events might as well follow from the cause?

On the third floor was an apartment for single men, and another for a family; in the basement, a billiard room and a bowling alley.

In the 1820's, John Quincy Adams was berated for using government funds to buy a billiard table.

"Airports policy has been stalled for nearly five decades, ricocheting like a billiard ball between Heathrow and Gatwick," said Mr Moylan, aviation adviser to Mr Johnson.