Sentence examples for pump handle from inspiring English sources
Dr. Snow took off the well's pump handle and became a legend.
The pump handle had been missing for as long as anyone could remember.
Paneth, N. Assessing the contributions of John Snow to epidemiology: 150 years after removal of the broad street pump handle.
Women in Africa walk for hours to a well, and then jiggle the pump handle for 60 seconds.
Ignoring his choice of an ale pump handle as makeshift weapon – and the unceremonious offing of poor Longshadow by Bass – it's by far the most gruesome scene yet.
For all Snow's wisdom, dedication, and intellectual originality, the parish board that removed the pump handle did not specifically accept his theory.
Both teams got golden gas pump handles.
The roll-up garage doors are glass; the sconces are made from pump handles.
Following that firearm were instruments of death as delicate as handkerchiefs and as practical as pump handles.
In addition, small size fibrous particles increased the pump efficiency more than the efficiency of the same pump handling pure water only.
In his office, he has two award plaques with pump handles on them — a reference to John Snow, the father of epidemiology, who traced a London cholera outbreak to one contaminated pump and halted it by removing the handle.
