Sentence examples for rack on which from inspiring English sources

What one senses, maybe, is the rack on which Sutherland found himself.

In both algorithms, we randomly pick one rack as the primary rack on which the read request is issued.

The plot is skeletal, a mere garment rack on which to hang the characters like so many bright frocks.

But instead of a hat designer, Eleanor could be thought of as a hat herself, or perhaps more accurately as a rack on which hats may be hung.

The rack on which the bodies of prisoners were distended to obtain confessions is mentioned in "The Merchant of Venice" and "King Lear".

The loss of goods may be greater than the total cost of the rack on which the goods are stored, which can indirectly affect the owner.

Mr. Hosseini bought new coat racks on which women can hang their burkas and then read in comfort.

I was peering inside an incubator at the Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md .The incubator, about the size of a small refrigerator, held shiny wire racks on which sat several rows of petri dishes containing clear pink liquid.

Perhaps this might be a way of getting at what Kenneth Tynan once described as Othello's "concealing within him racks on which to stretch himself and those about him until the excruciated lyric cry was released; and bearing in his baggage explosive coils of taut, dangerous springs".

In America the 19th-century still-life painter William Harnett became famous for his card-rack paintings, on which are depicted various cards and clippings with such verisimilitude that the viewer becomes convinced that they can be lifted off the painted rack.

It is equally potent whether applied to chicken or rack of lamb, on which it has almost a barbecue effect.