Sentence examples for plumb bob from inspiring English sources
noun
A metal weight attached to the end of a plumb line.
1. Shunt and plumb bob, a whirring top That keeps touching down on its pivot.
1.Shunt and plumb bob, a whirring topThat keeps touching down on its pivot.
by Sharon Levy 1.Shunt and plumb bob, a whirring topThat keeps touching down on its pivot.
Most convincing is a giant gold-leafed plumb bob bearing esoteric symbols and a clunky series of bronze humanoids based on medieval anthropological speculations (Johnson).
Included among the classics are beautiful everyday objects not necessarily seen every day, like the brass-and-steel plumb bob, a must-have on any construction site, designed by O. J. Kuker of Seattle around 1948.
"I'd wear jogging pants to work and the guys used to joke that, 'You could drop a plumb bob from the back of your head and the string wouldn't hit anything before it hit the ground,' " he said, referring to the weight on a string used for surveying.
The level and alignment do not require the kind of fancy laser plumb bobs and rangefinders that fill engineering catalogs.
I don't plumb-bob any longer on the greens.
The latter was employed occasionally for making small vases and such objects as plumb bobs.
By that time surveying methods (commonly by string line and plumb bobs) had been introduced, and tunnels were advanced from a succession of closely spaced shafts to provide ventilation.
The Egyptians worked deposits of the lead ore galena at Gebel Rosas to make net sinkers, plumb bobs, and small figurines.
