Sentence examples for plungers from inspiring English sources
An episode in 1964 showed London's empty streets stalked by trundling storm troopers, their plungers raised in a "Sieg Heil" salute.While adults relished the echo of the demonic wartime foe, children found the Daleks' absurd nastiness captivating.
Alloys prepared in this way, known as phosphor bronzes, may contain only about 1 percent phosphorus in the ingot and a mere trace after casting, but their value is nevertheless enhanced for purposes in which a hard, strong metal is required, as for pumps, plungers, valves, and the bushings of bearings.
Bronze is improved in hardness and strength by the addition of a small amount of phosphorus; phosphor bronze may contain 1 or 2 percent phosphorus in the ingot and a mere trace after casting, but its strength is nonetheless enhanced for such applications as pump plungers, valves, and bushings.
In 1956, a "stalacpipe organ" was constructed in the caverns by placing rubber-tipped plungers next to 37 stalactites to produce sound, making it the largest natural musical instrument.
Hydraulic cylinders and plungers are used for low-rise passenger elevators and for heavy duty freight elevators.
The individual players he employed weren't up-to-date urban players but, often, less sophisticated New Orleans musicians, whose great gift was a distinctly human tone, often achieved with the use of homemade mutes and plungers.
The nipples of her breasts were long, cylindrical, and stiff, so that her chest looked as if two small plungers had flown across the room and suctioned themselves there.
Soon, all four are expiring from radiation sickness and languishing in a metal cell provided by the hidden inhabitants of that city: shouty types with sink-plungers where their left arms should be.
Mr Musk's proposed solution is to fit each pod with a fan designed to blow what little air is present through a pipe in the capsule and out of the back essentially drilling a hole in the plunger.
This box, the Clover, produces a cup of coffee with a spectacle of streaming water, whirring motors and an ingenious inverse plunger.
But whereas in a standard engine this mixture is compressed by the rising and falling of a plunger-like arrangement, Dr Hussain achieves compression by what is, in effect, a thickening and thinning of the cylinder walls.This is where the liquid comes in.
