Sentence examples for on a plank from inspiring English sources

Before sunset he is taken out on deck and laid on a plank; one end of the plank rests on the rail, the other on a box placed on a stool.

When they found he had none, they placed his hands on a plank, chopped one off at the wrist and cut four fingers from the other.

By grilled, I mean that five Rastafarians were camped on the side of the bay, with a blazing grill, and dozens of pink conch laid out on a plank that one of them had dived for that morning.

She has to sleep on a plank to maintain one particular coiffure, Maureen tells Adam, and the plank she uses is a bookshelf.

After the Columbine shootings, he laid fifteen yellow tulips, one for each person killed, on a plank supported by paving stones.

During one particularly harrowing all-night installation, he dozed off on a plank.

The latter preferred to jump into an abyss off a plank on the mountain top.

It was held on a planking laid between the rails of a straight 3 mile stretch of Long Island Railroad track between Maywood and Babylon, L.I. and the rider was paced by a L.I. locomotive.

The library may be a plank on bricks under a tree.

One of them set up a plank on a box and announced that this was the Last Chance Saloon.

In mid-May, a 20-year-old man died in Brisbane, Australia, while trying a plank on a seventh-story balcony at around 4 30 in the morning.