Sentence examples for rubber from inspiring English sources

This is a dangerous and philistinic way of thinking: we may as well give the Turner prize to someone who makes a really big rubber band ball, or the guy who makes epic portraits using a Biro.

A Russian nationalist organisation later said on social media that 70 Lokomotiv fans had taken part in the assault using traumatic pistols (handguns that fire rubber bullets).

The rubber devices, appropriately known as gap-fillers, are fixed to the sides of platforms near the doors and have apparently eradicated accidents during a year-long trial.

It seems crazy but that little bit of rubber makes a real difference".

But as Australia joins the 190-plus other countries navigating the climate stepping stones, it's hard to know whether the Aussies are wearing rubber thongs (those are flip-flops to foreigners) or appropriately stout walking boots.

The United Nations climate change negotiations taking place in Warsaw have been trivially described as a "stepping stone" towards the next big global deal to cut emissions which, some hope, will be greeted with a giant rubber stamp in Paris in 2015.

Like Woakes, the spin-bowling all-rounder Mooen Ali missed Friday's dead-rubber against Afghanistan with a side strain but is expected to be named.

Insiders said some members of the board were not happy that they were forced to rubber-stamp the appointment of Harding as the last editor of the Times, and made their displeasure known to Thomson.

Clashes broke out at the men's funerals in the volatile West Bank city, with around 20 Palestinians reported to have been injured by live fire and rubber-coated bullets.

Duchamp used 1,000 foam-rubber breasts for the catalogue covers of the Paris exhibition Le Surréalisme in 1947.

The hardest – or crux sections – on Dawn Wall also involve very poor slippery footholds where the climber needs to rely on the friction of rubber-soled shoes against the wall and tiny razor-sharp flakes for two finger tips.