Sentence examples for from the plank from inspiring English sources

AFTER taking just a handful of yoga classes, Lisa Lew didn't know the plow from the plank and wasn't overly impressed with the age-old discipline.

The taste is phenomenal because you get steam from the plank and, of course, the wood chars on the underside and releases all that smoky flavour too.

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2. From the plank position, cross your right foot in front of your left leg, planting it firmly on the floor.

Assistant producer Jeff Gullet said that, in the game's recreation of a Return of the Jedi scene where Luke Skywalker "jumps off the plank... and somersaults onto the skiff", Skywalker "performs an all-out acrobatic routine with all sorts of jumps from the plank.

Slice off sidewalls from the plank using the circular saw.

He played a video from a tech rehearsal in which the three Rhinemaidens, or water nymphs, dangle from the planks in flippered gowns.

And above that hole now rises a commissioned 65-foot-high sculpture made by John Grade from the planks of a century-old schooner that also plied Lake Union.

On a recent evening, crowds bumped on the club's dance floor, which is made from the planks of an actual lumber schooner, flanked by ship's riggings, sails and, of course, the pool, where streakers-turned-skinny-dippers have been known to take the occasional plunge.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) claimed the GOP could take a big hit if it "continues to back away from the planks in our platform," suggesting some Republicans could look into forming a third party.

"A voice spoke to me from behind the plank," he told the ethnomusicologist Jeff Todd Titon, "and said something like 'Go and preach the gospel to all the nations.' " By the time he was eighteen, he was a circuit rider, an itinerant preacher hitchhiking from church to church.