Sentence examples for like joints from inspiring English sources

The roads run straight along the old property lines and meet at right angles, like joints in furniture.

Inconsolable losses eventually take the form of ordinary pains, like joints that ache when a storm is coming, but sometimes I'm caught by surprise.

Without stretchability it's impossible to apply the electronic skin to moving parts like joints or to curved surfaces," says Someya, who made the first flexible, large-area pressure sensor in 2003.

I was probably having a mild seizure of some kind, but while the state was upon me I had the feeling that time was a series of pieces fit together like joints in furniture, and every now and then one encountered the seams, rather than having time be like, say, a river, or a wheel that turned in an orderly way.

I was looking at the stairwell bannisters, at their lathing, the necks and knobs like joints and bones, the varnish here thicker here thinner—I had said Which one of them died, and now the world was an ant's world, the huge crumb of each second to be thrown, somehow, up onto my back and the young, tired voice said my fresh love's name.

I was looking at the stairwell bannisters, at their lathing, the necks and knobs like joints and bones, the varnish here thicker here thinner — I had said Which one of them died, and now the world was an ant's world, the huge crumb of each second to be thrown, somehow, up onto my back — and the young, tired voice said my fresh love's name.

We don't like joint ventures," he said.

It still had some fish-like joints, but had evolved to be more rigid and stiff than that of its ancestors.

Two integrated ECF micropumps control two bellows-like joints respectively through fluidic channels built in the finger to realize the compliant motion with 2 DOFs (degree-of-freedom).

In 1990, he patented the Hoberman sphere: a mechanism resembling a geodesic dome that was created from a series of scissor-like joints (similar to those found on a cherry picker) allowing the object to expand and contract.

The horse's general form is characteristic of an animal of speed: the long leg bones pivot on pulley-like joints that restrict movement to the fore and aft, the limbs are levered to muscle masses in such a way as to provide the most efficient use of energy, and the compact body is supported permanently on the tips of the toes, allowing fuller extension of the limbs in running.