Sentence examples for long tow from inspiring English sources

The friend drove between two boats without seeing that they were joined by a long tow rope submerged in the water.

Captain Earl Jensen, master of the tugboat Flushing was piloting her down the Sound one afternoon with a long tow of sand barges when he came upon a score of Int.

The first sign of the Ezadeen's arrival had come more than an hour earlier when the Tyr's three masthead lights, signalling a long tow, appeared beyond the mole that forms one half of the entrance to Corigliano's spacious harbour.

1.16pm: At the back of the bunch, Tyler Farrar is getting a good long tow from one of the medical cars as he gets something on his leg, possibly an insect bite, sprayed by one of the doctors.

By Lawrence Perry The New Yorker, August 24, 1940 P. 58 Captain Earl Jensen, master of the tugboat Flushing was piloting her down the Sound one afternoon with a long tow of sand barges when he came upon a score of Int.

Dr. B. came… Captain Earl Jensen, master of the tugboat Flushing was piloting her down the Sound one afternoon with a long tow of sand barges when he… The Rev. Dr. H. C. Benjamin, of St. John's Episcopal Church, Flushing, is, as far as I know, the only racing parson on the Sound.… Harry Maxwell is probably one of the four or five great amateur skippers this country has produced.

They arranged for the long towing pole of the limber to overlap the trail of the gun, and then put up a dummy truck canopy over both.

Then the 250-foot-long tow rope drops and you steer (along with Mr. Umstattd) through thermal waves and cumulus clouds until you touch down on Earth about 15 minutes later.

Moreno was struck on 1 October 1956 and was towed to Japan in 1957 for scrapping in what was then the world's longest tow (96 days).

4 February 1994 Marty McSorley (Pittsburgh Penguins) v Bob Probert (Detroit Red Wings) The long-anticipated match-up between McSorley and Probert is said to be one of the longest tow-to-toe fights in NHL history.

It took so long to tow the plane out of the road that I was late to work and got written up.