Sentence examples for imaginary tool from inspiring English sources

The Winnowing Oar was a sculpture, made of oak, spruce and ash, of an imaginary tool inspired by The Odyssey (in the poem, Tiresias instructs Odysseus to take an oar from his ship and to walk until he finds a "land that knows nothing of the sea", where the oar will be mistaken for a "winnowing fan").

And we wait for Track, API access to creating imaginary friends, and other tools to filter in and out of FriendFeed's aggregation services.

Toddlers bang on pots, and preschoolers love to pretend to fix things with tools, real or imaginary.

The basis of the structural anthropology of Lévi-Strauss is the idea that the human brain systematically processes organised, that is to say structured, units of information that combine and recombine to create models that sometimes explain the world we live in, sometimes suggest imaginary alternatives, and sometimes give tools with which to operate in it.

FriendFeed's new realtime tools let you create imaginary friends to integrate Twitter follows who aren't active in FriendFeed; Friends Lists let you mold realtime feeds into high value groups.

Our brains should be less focused on imaginary zombie hoards and more focused on harnessing the tools that we need in order to enhance our lives, whether it be music, education, science or the classics.

For them, many facts reported in Sinai are imaginary; and the essential fact is that the peninsula is a tool in a power play between Islamists and the military.

After several failures, during which both the tools and the injured colleague fell into the imaginary ravine, the team achieved its goal.

The goal will be to create a print advertisement which promotes an imaginary vehicle over an imaginary competitor's using statistics as the primary tool of persuasion, based on material gathered during research.

Imaginary animals created by the students can be also used as a tool within the entire school curriculum.

Three years later, having turned 15 and acquired his learner's permit, he was tooling around Lexington, Neb., his nervous mother regularly stomping an imaginary brake pedal on the passenger-side floor as a sign that he should slow down.