Sentence examples for ratchet away from inspiring English sources

'¡Ayombe!' Accordions pump and sprint, scrapers ratchet away, and singers bemoan broken hearts in the vallenato music of northeastern Colombia.

"This is a ratcheting away from [the] second amendment right to carry freely wherever we should be able to".

"What can a poor boy do, 'cept play in a ragtime band?" Mr. Springsteen rasped as the band played "You Can Look (But You Better Not Touch)," with a zydeco rubboard ratcheting away.

This only serves to make them stronger and turns the "collectivist ratchet" inexorably away from a free society and towards the big state.

The answer was not to ratchet up the tension right away but to insert some time and space.

There's something too cruel – in these days when airports seem weekly to devise new ways to humiliate, to rob, to give you three minutes to find a gate four miles away and, generally, ratchet iron bands of tension ever tighter round your frazzled head – in being reminded of what once was.

Whether the ad helps Mr. Franks enough should become clear quickly, when his TV campaign either fades away or is ratcheted up to a full-scale air assault in the New York market as well.

Because the succinamide station binds the macrocycle less strongly than the fumaramide station, this process has moved the macrocycle energetically uphill; that is, it has performed a ratcheting operation, transporting a particle away from equilibrium.

By "it," she means rape and right away she tries to ratchet the vision down.

Saudi Arabia continues to ratchet up production, taking market share away from U.S. shale producers.

The point is that Labour ministers knew quite well that they were throwing away billions, but they ratcheted up the money and the rhetoric in pursuit of popularity.