Sentence examples for long lever from inspiring English sources

In the slender legs of arthropods, with insufficient space for bulky muscles or long lever arms, many of the muscles are pennate.

The plane that crashed, an Airbus A300, is a long airplane -- 177.5 feet -- and with the fuselage acting like a long lever, sudden movements from side to side produce powerful pressures at the end, where the vertical tail sits.

The principle of the lever was used in the swape, or shadoof, a long lever pivoted near one end with a platform or water container hanging from the short arm and counterweights attached to the long arm.

The clutch also serves as low gear — there are two gears, aside from reverse — and to the left of the pedal is a long lever that serves as the emergency brake, neutral and high gear.

Although our results were obtained in healthy subjects and the implications in a pathological population are not clear, we suggest that when designing a progression of exercises for increasing shoulder muscular activity, supported short lever arm AROM exercises should precede unsupported long lever arm AROM exercises.

For each trial, the rat could, after hearing the tone, opt to either take the test and press the short or long lever, or poke its nose through a side of the chamber designated the, "I don't know" option, at which point it would get a tiny snack.

But Seti has a long lever-arm because, clearly, if we were to find a signal showing there was intelligent life, that would be an extraordinarily interesting thing.

Start with lighter weights: the long levers of your arms can make them seem very heavy.

It had been brutal stuff, with Bravo inventive and surgical and Sammy's long levers lending him immense power.

Kevin Pietersen has begun quietly before using those long levers to sweep the last ball of the over for a single.

On the road, his type – a lanky physique with long levers and a big engine, capable of sustained high aerobic output – is known as a rouleur.