Sentence examples for long rigid from inspiring English sources

Buggy whips, with their long, rigid handles and flexible end lashes, were created by braiding fiber around a hard core and had no automotive analog.

To remove objects like keys and coins and pins, Jackson would insert a long, rigid tube into his patients — usually children, and usually awake, though his assistants did help to hold them still.

Of course, corsets — whether fitted with stays (later called boning), busks (long, rigid strips inserted down the middle, made of wood or steel or more elaborate materials like ivory or silver), gussets or metal eyelets — were a byword of the female lexicon beginning in the late 1500s and lasting through the 1920s.

The submarine, I believe, was about 5 foot 6 long, rigid, so it wouldn't have gone round corners or round any obstacles.

The long, rigid instruments and cameras typically used in laparoscopic surgery are constrained by the entry incision.

Only the long, rigid MWNTs and asbestos fibers triggered a chronic inflammatory response, the researchers report online today in Nature Nanotechnology.

The DECs consist of a dielectric elastomer matrix phase constrained to undergo plane strain deformations by means of aligned, long, rigid-dielectric fibers of elliptical cross section that are also aligned but randomly distributed in the transverse plane.

After some derailments in 1887, a new design of 27 feet long rigid-wheelbase four-wheelers known as Jubilee Stock was built by the Cravens Railway Carriage and Wagon Co. for the extension line.

Within 17 minutes, the towerlike mast was all the way out -- and the longest rigid structure ever deployed in space.

To retrieve information needed for the three-dimensional views, the shuttle will have to extend a 197-foot metal and plastic antenna mast, the longest rigid structure ever deployed in space.

To compensate, the shuttle's pilots had to fire the shuttle thrusters more than usual to keep the 197-foot mast, the longest rigid structure ever flown in space, in the right position.