Sentence examples for lance tip from inspiring English sources

Application of the results to the maximum bubble pressure method for determining surface tension of non-wetting liquids showed that for large-diameter lances, two pressure peaks can be obtained if the chamber volume behind the lance tip is small.

But the lance, tipped with a cute little feather duster, quickly proved useless.

The supernumerary teeth had single roots and lance-like tips.

One is the chipped stone tools that archeologists often turgidly call "projectile points" and that lay people know as "arrowheads" (even if many of them tipped lances or spears, not arrows).

It takes its name from being shaped like the tip of a lance.

This is an oxygen lance with additional ports at the tip for burning carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide inside the converter.

Too late to help her husband, Henry II, who took the tip of a jousting lance through the eye socket, but no blame can attach to Nostradamus for the king's demise ten painful days later.

Men aim bamboo spears tipped with iron to lance up snappers, sea perch, cod and squid; or they toss out baited hand lines to yank in needlefish, perch, tuna and mackerel.

In the Isasmelt process, a gas or air lance is brought in through the top of a furnace and its tip submerged in the sulfide concentrate.

An Old Bailey jury found him guilty along with Paul Brunt, a former lance corporal in the Household Cavalry regiment, who tipped him off with stories about Prince Harry.

Most are happy to continue jousting there, battling members of their own troupes in matches that are not staged but are still theatrical, with rehearsed patter and the hazards of the sport mitigated by the addition of a balsa-wood tip at the end of the lance.