Sentence examples for planking in the from inspiring English sources

An actor who could tread the stage in the middle of the sea, cheekily ad-libbing into the huge darkness, could put up with most reverses and could catch fish through the planking in the interval.The end of the pier is the ultimate dare, the part most likely to be cut off by fire or a drifting vessel as the last girders snap.

The bridge deck is made of crosswise planking, overlaid with runners in the western half and lengthwise planking in the eastern half.

It was on a sun-fueled afternoon so many years ago, magnifying glass in one hand and a piece of planking in the other, that my Dad forged a fatherly offering for me that I still carry with me, but only in mind and heart, the piece itself having been long ago weeded out by the zealous, artifact-erasing housekeeper that was my mother.

There were no messy fights over credentials or over planks in the platform.

Wooden planks in the grandstand, like neglected teeth, are mostly loose or missing.

One audacious airport worker performed the plank in the idle engine fan of a jet plane.

The New Yorker, July 28 , 1980P. 23 Comment about two controversial planks in the Republican Party platform.

This discovery is a major plank in the evidence for Einstein's general theory of relativity.

He was for all the planks in the Contract With America and each article of impeachment.

Yet this legislation is just one of many planks in the dismantling of the NHS.

In 1948, Southerners walked out of the Democratic National Convention in opposition to a civil-rights plank in the Party platform.