Sentence examples for rods off from inspiring English sources

In Walden 's most bravura chapter, "Sounds", he hears not only the cries and rustles of myriad creatures but, with surprising approval, the whistle and racket of the Fitchburg Railroad train as it makes its way, 100 rods off, along the edge of Walden Pond: Commerce is unexpectedly confident and serene, alert, adventurous, and unwearied.

But there I was, the creature a few rods off, its eyes fixed on mine.

"Get two rods off the porch and my box.

On your boat, cast your trolling rods off the back of your boat and let the line sink.

Float your concrete after it is placed and rodded off with a straight-edge or screed board.

The white-hot rods fizzled off steam, which had to go somewhere.

There are two hot rods topping off at the neighboring pumps.

They had to do this [he whistles and, using an imaginary fishing rod, casts off].

Hot-rodding took off in the years after World War II, when restless young ex-G.I.'s, perhaps bored by the humdrum of home life, felt the need for speed.

A straightforward listing of the hundreds of performance records set by Mickey Thompson, in everything from hot rods to off-road vehicles — and the dozens of bones he broke along the way — might well have filled the 300 pages of this book.

Once the tie rod is off, the spindle is free to move left and right.