Sentence examples for off from the ground from inspiring English sources

"We had to work our ass off from the ground up," Violent J says.

Many lightning bolts emit some x-rays, particularly at the point that the return stroke sets off from the ground.

Vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) vehicles include the helicopter, tilt rotors, and "jump jets," which lift off from the ground in a vertical motion.

The common vampire bat is the only bat capable of taking off from the ground, using its long thumbs to leap a metre (three feet) or more into the air before flying off.

When I was about eleven, Uncle started disseminating a theory that went like this: airplanes are able to take off from the ground and remain in the firmament only because aviation engineers worldwide recite a special prayer verse from the Koran before each plane departs.

These could be sent up by all sorts of organisations, including universities for research projects.An air launch is constrained by the weight the carrier aircraft can lift, so big rockets blasting off from the ground will, for the time being, remain the only way to get the heaviest payloads into space.

"Decision-making across the U.N. was dominated by a culture of trade-offs – from the ground to U.N. headquarters," the draft report states.

The catch-22, however, is that Pistorius does not exert as much force during push-off from the ground as an able-bodied runner.

Bats use their wings as levers to catapult themselves into the air when taking-off from the ground and wingspan (b) in flying vertebrates is tightly constrained by aerodynamic requirements to a geometric scaling with body mass i.e. Mb1/3 (Norberg, 1990; Norberg and Rayner, 1987; Nudds, 2007; Rayner, 1988).

Previous studies on the dynamics of flight have illustrated the benefits of short wings for birds that perform many pivots and rolls during flying and shown that shorter wings also may allow the birds to take off faster from the ground, he adds.

Howe seized this opportunity, and on June 26 marched two columns of troops out in an attempt to cut Washington off from the high ground.