Sentence examples for grain off from inspiring English sources

After years of running over bears with its trains, the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe railroad now vacuums up spilled grain off freight tracks in northern Montana.

As Gene Hackman, playing a disillusioned N.S.A. analyst in the 1998 movie "Enemy of the State" put it, the agency has been in bed with the telecommunications industry for decades, and "they can suck a salt grain off a beach".

At the same time, a number of other creditors from Aspen are listed in a bankruptcy petition, from the Grape and Grain off-licence to Aspen Valley hospital and the Dish Network, which provides a satellite dish service.

"It's hard to get the grains off".

Each additional grain sets off a landslide, paring the pile back down.

Apply the rags with the grain, wiping off the excess as you go, in order to use it on other sections.

Shaving in the same direction as your hair grows — i.e. "with the grain" — chops off less beard, but is very forgiving.

Properly, a grinding wheel is self-sharpening because as it is worked, the dull grains break off, exposing fresh, sharp grains.

Pollen grains washed off by rain are collected in a 1.5-L PET flask connected to the body of the PMF sampling unit.

After 28 wetting-drying cycles, crystalline salt particles on the surface of the specimens and a small amount of grains were observed for the untreated fired-clay samples, which affirmed efflorescence, and the efflorescence became serious with the grains falling off from the surface layer of untreated sample after 78 cycles.

Chalk can be used for drawing, because the grains rub off very easily.