Sentence examples for lowered rim from inspiring English sources

During one of their visits, Mr. Robert insisted on going outside in his wheelchair to shoot baskets "with his one good arm and a slightly lowered rim," he recalled.

And he ran for an 8-yard touchdown, finishing with a dive over the goal line and a blown attempt to use the crossbar to imitate a Michael Jordan dunk he had once performed on a lowered rim as a child.

In later years, with a lowered rim, circulated silver pieces tend to be more worn on the reverse.

— MIKE TIERNEY Cool move in that officials lowered the rim so injured Louisville guard Kevin Ware could finish cutting down the net.

Raspberry pink on the outside, with rusty orange layers underneath and a marigold border around its flared lower rim, it is at once stately, ridiculous and erotically lush.

At tip-off, the lower rim of the stadium looked like a poorly-played Tetris board, with a smattering of empty seats noticeable between those that were filled.

Perretta said he would need to study it more closely and practice with a lower rim before signing off on the idea.

Hanging in the middle of the gallery, its raspberry pink exterior deepened by an underlayer of dark orange and its flaring lower rim a bright marigold hue, it is stately, ridiculous and spectacularly lush (Johnson).

A1 Water Rises at Ground Zero Workers are hurrying to shore up and patch a 90-foot-wide gash in the below-ground retaining wall that encircles much of the World Trade Center site, after discovering that groundwater fed by the Hudson River is only a foot below the lower rim.

Workers are hurrying to shore up and patch a 90-foot-wide gash in the below-ground retaining wall that encircles much of the World Trade Center site after discovering that groundwater, fed by the Hudson River, is only a precarious foot below the lower rim of the damaged area.

The supramolecular arrangement displays alternating layers of facing bowls and interlocking lower rim aliphatic moieties.