Sentence examples for of a spoke from inspiring English sources
Dowsett turned despair to delight and gloom to gold with every gruelling spin of a spoke, upgrading his silver from four years ago to emerge as Commonwealth champion.
When I wasn't accidentally stabbing my finger with the end of a spoke, I was crawling on the carpet, trying to rescue a stud before the broadloom swallowed it up.
Rather than the Parisian business hub its founders described, it often seems more like the isolated end of a spoke that has highlighted a crucial flaw in urban planning — a concern with making architectural statements — rather than an affinity for the people in and around the buildings.
He also vividly animates mechanical processes, as in this passage sounding out the "aural feast" of bicycle production: "The metallic brush of the spokes being gathered in hand, the ting of a spoke as the elbow dropped into the flange, the scuffle of the nipples moving on the workbench, the whir of the wrench fastening the nipples, the swish of the loosely suspended hub flopping about".
The actuator design can generate linear motion of 6 μm measured at the end of a spoke.
Filamentous actin appeared to coalesce forming focal points from which actin filaments radiated, reminiscent of a spoke wheel (Fig. 4B).
His duties in the White House were eclectic and sometimes mysterious; even after the Administration began seriously to falter and he became Carter's chief of staff, filling a position that had been left off the chart in favor of a spokes-of-the-wheel model, he would sometimes vanish for days at a time.
France, in contrast, have little chance of putting a spoke in the wheel of England's chariot when the sides meet at Twickenham on the final weekend of the tournament if they continue to play like this.
For once shunning translation, he becomes the donkey, pushing a spoke of the circular press, crushing the olives and lemons.
Check the tightness of your spokes using a spoke wrench.
We can think of well-being as a spoked wheel, with each spoke representing a major area of life: occupational, emotional, financial, spiritual, and physical.
