Sentence examples for on a spur from inspiring English sources

You can throw the switch and save them, but it will cause the death of one person standing on a spur.

I sit down on a spur of granite and look around.

Or was it that these guys came through on a spur?

Leigh sits on a spur of the Leeds-Liverpool canal, its skyline dominated by derelict cotton mills.

Finally, a case study on a spur gear tests the model in an industrial configuration and shows a high correlation between the numerical results and experimental data.

Praeneste, modern Palestrina, ancient city of Latium, located 23 miles east-southeast of Rome on a spur of the Apennines, home of the great temple to Fortuna Primigenia.

"Otherwise, we go to a lot of local B.Y.O.B. restaurants like Rebecca's in Edgewater on a spur-of-the-moment basis and take more everyday wines".

IN these pages last week, an article reported on a spur-of-the-moment experiment The Times conducted in buying custom-written term papers over the Internet.

Even the plan to seize Crimea, while obviously honed a while ago, was executed on a spur-of-the-moment decision.

On a spur-of-the-moment bet at a party, Maurice Goldhaber had laid down $500 that the particle did not exist.

On a spur-of-the-moment impulse they hustle him out a balcony window for a last joy ride in the arms of Nonna (Amr Waked), who was his No. 1 prostitute.