Sentence examples for greater crack from inspiring English sources

Surrounded by such ordinariness, it was tempting to reach for Shakespeare: "The breaking of so great a thing should make/ A greater crack: the round world/ Should have shook lions into civil streets,/ And citizens to their dens".

"The breaking of so great a thing should make a greater crack," said Octavius Caesar on hearing the death of the Roman military commander Mark Antony; the revelation – he suggested – "should have shook lions into civil streets, and citizens to their dens".

The analysis of the tested slabs shows that load pulses with higher minimum loads generated more fatigue damage as indicated by greater crack growth rates.

Maruyama et al. (2004) also found that RCA beams had greater crack width and smaller crack spacing, but noted that the variation of these parameters between RCA and NA concrete was small from an engineering perspective and that RCA beam crack width was still well below the applicable standards.

Look how wary, how destabilised you feel in a building with a great big crack down the middle.

The medium composition (C7 C16) of 50 mD long core exhibits greater cracking extend.

The present study shows that, in the sense of inducing a given crack density, compliant coating layer with lower modulus has much higher critical torque than that of a stiffer one with the same geometries and substrate material, i.e., compliant coating layer has greater cracking tolerance.

The abandoned houses make great crack dens and provide cover for appalling sex crimes and child abduction.

Rob introduces me to Derek, his skull on a stick with two ivory horns: "Makes a great crack pipe".

Paddling back out, I burned to tell somebody about the wave — about the great crack the lip had made as it split the surface behind me, about the mottled amber upper hollows of the inside wall.

Paris Law behavior similar to that observed wrought steel alloys has been achieved with vertical orientations showing the greatest crack growth resistance.