Sentence examples for handrail off from inspiring English sources

"He was throwing chairs around and he did pull a handrail off the wall," Doreen says.

Dr. Massimino achieved a kind of cosmic fame when, confronted with a stuck bolt that was blocking access to a broken spectrograph, he ripped a handrail off the side of the Hubble to get to it.

It all came to a wonderful high-tech, low-tech climax two years ago, when Michael J. Massimino, channeling his Uncle Frank fixing a car on Long Island, yanked a handrail off the side of the telescope to get at a broken spectrograph underneath it.

Six days into a mission last May to repair and rehabilitate the Hubble Space Telescope, Michael J. Massimino, an astronaut, robotics expert and honorary New York City fireman, was getting ready to rip a handrail off the side of the fabled telescope.

Luckily, when he yanked, the handrail came off cleanly.

Currently, when metro drivers are under instruction, an elasticated sheet is raised by connecting the handrails to section off that part of the carriage.

In my defense, the trail has a cable handrail on the inside where it plunges off on the outside, and the boys were very good about holding on to the rail.

Onlookers appeared unfazed by the proximity of the rat as the small rodent attempted to somehow jump off the handrail.

"We put handrails where you might be careering off a corner," he added.

In addition, older women with wrist fractures may have more difficulty climbing steps or getting out of a car owing to their reliance on handrails or their need to push off from the seat to get out of a car.

Eventually a woman emerges from the crowd to give the rodent a helping hand, knocking the rat from its handrail perch and allowing it to scuttle off from whence it came.