Sentence examples for lead plate from inspiring English sources

He put a small, freestanding lead plate in the corner there, to splash against, and this made him realize that a corner could be a structural support.

With a meager $110 million budget, Mr. Piano has produced a finely tuned set of neo-Classical style buildings with roofs of lead plate that resemble armadillos.

Bradlee's old chair, the conference table used in the newsroom during Watergate, the lead plate for the front page headlined "Nixon resigns" and the Gothic-lettered willington Post sign will all be preserved.

Not long ago, when a camel broke its jaw at the nearby Brookfield Zoo, it walked up to a table and laid its head on a lead plate for an X-ray.

Fort Pierre, across the river, was the fur-trade capital of the Northwest from 1832 to 1855; a monument there marks the place where Louis-Joseph and François Vérendrye buried a lead plate in 1743 (found in 1913) claiming the region for France.

The size of the lead plate was 145 × 30 mm.

"Recyclers shred the hard parts — lead plates, plastic cases — and capture the acid electrolyte," he said.

He tried propping heavy lead plates against the wall in various ways, often with sheets of rolled lead.

They had planted no lead plates, knew nothing of some English king's presumptive claims to own a continent.

The firm replaces the conventional lead plates with graphite foam, which carries a slurry of chemically active materials.

Lead plates were bolted to the bellies of the choppers for a second attempt, the next morning, but most of the water scattered in the wind.