Sentence examples for handle was used from inspiring English sources

A long handle was used to turn a heavy wooden screw, exerting downward pressure against the paper, which was laid over the type mounted on a wooden platen.

In East Asia a very fine brush mounted on a bamboo handle was used with ink made of boiled pine soot or with watercolours.

The flabellum, a metal disk mounted on a long handle, was used in medieval church ceremony; it was held by the deacon and used pro muscis fugandis, "to drive away flies".

The trepan was a small tube-shaped saw that was operated in the fashion of a wimble, in which a handle was used to turn the teeth of the saw like a screw.

The PVC cylinder (12.5 mm) fixed to a metallic handle was used as an impression tray.

As observed in Han miniature tomb models, but not in literary sources, the crank handle was used to operate the fans of winnowing machines that separated grain from chaff.

In Japan, needles set in a wooden handle are used to tattoo very elaborate multicoloured designs, in many cases covering much of the body.

A manually-operated handle is used to rotate two shafts, one of which translates rotational motion to become linear motion of a slider crank.

The Kiva® System is a sterile, single-use device in which an external delivery handle is used to deploy the Kiva® implant over a nitinol coil guidewire.

Robotic plate handling was used to load and unload plates (Thermo Scientific).

Minimal handling was used to insert rats into the restraint device, consisting of a close-ended transparent plastic cylinder.