Sentence examples for human plank from inspiring English sources

"I was trying to do a human plank, hanging off a pole, when I hit my foot on the floor and did something to my knee.

The 20-year-old Briton tried to do a human plank exercise on a pole and slipped, landing heavily on her foot and injuring her knee.

Nevertheless, the two did act in concert to block some aspects of the Brezhnev-Nixon policy of détente, and were instrumental in getting the US Senate to include a human rights plank in the agreement.

In his first New York solo exhibition, Mr. Mongrain, an associate professor of ceramics at Hunter College, presents a set of quiet, mysterious, beautifully made ceramic objects: a perforated bell shape hanging from myriad threads; a hovering pillow bearing the imprint of a human ear; a leaning black plank with a surface like gently rippling water (Johnson).

Secondly, consider the United States and its allies; they need to avoid the mistakes committed in the run-up to the Iraq war by credibly demonstrating that defense of human rights is a central plank of our Iran policy.

Both Republicans and Democrats included platform planks to combat human trafficking during their national political conventions, with similar themes.

It added almost $6,000 to the price and, while beautiful, was tiny, plank-hard and unfit for human habitation.

The on-the-one-hand plank: We revere the sanctity of human life and therefore oppose genocide, euthanasia, and assisted suicide.

We count on them for brazen behavior, the more so as it's their job to expose the rotten planks of society, the underside of human nature.

He considers Mahalo Answers to be the third plank of his company's strategy, with human-powered search and abbreviated wiki guides being the first two.

Human induced vibration is a common problem in the design of planking levels as both flooring or decking.