Sentence examples for ladders- from inspiring English sources
Rescue crews responding to reports of people possibly trapped on upper floors of the buildings converged quickly after the first reports of the disaster at about 3.20pm ET. Twenty minutes later, firefighters on ladders poured water on flames leaping as high as three stories from the roof of the buildings, on Second Avenue near the corner of Seventh Street.
I spent most of the filming period staring at the footwear of technicians as they walked back and forth with ladders and bits of lighting equipment.
No trite little back dramas, no faffing around with wobbly ladders or faulty electrics – just immediate situations and reactions.
Twice a day they scrambled down rope ladders from troop ships to the flat landing craft called Higgins boats.
Enthusiasts for the 11-plus still talk about providing "ladders" by which bright boys (they usually mean boys) can climb out of inner-city poverty.
On social mobility too, Labour's graduate professionals seem to be saying: climb those ladders as we did.
He grabbed his ladders from the roof of his van and saved them.
The boys now know why it's important to change the oil filter on an engine, how to rig a winch line, how to use sand ladders to get a vehicle moving again.
You gaze at them on a map – the greater and lesser squiggles on the Ordnance Survey's snakes-and-ladders grid.
There have been no terrorist incidents since then, but tourists still need to be reassured or tempted by unbeatable prices.Tourism is one of Egypt's top foreign-currency earners, but it is a snakes-and-ladders affair.
Underground drainage may prevent salinisation; channels in the dam can allow some of the silt through; fish-ladders allow certain migrating fish, such as salmon, to continue their journeys.
