Sentence examples for sheer lines from inspiring English sources

The centreline, chines and sheer lines of a vessel are modelled as B-spline curves.

In planing hull design, these control curves are the center, chine and sheer lines, as well as their geometric features including position, slope and, in the case of the chine, enclosed area and centroid.

For anyone who has ever been even slightly moved by the image of a tall mast, purposeful hull or sweeping sheer line, the view of the fleet assembled at the docks and mooring field that adjoin this salty town is simply staggering.

For anyone whose heartstrings have ever been twanged by the simple elegance of a hull's perfect sheer line, or the intricate, purposeful geometry of a tall mast rigged to harness the power of the wind, there is a place in midtown Manhattan that must be seen to be believed: the Model Room of the New York Yacht Club on West 44th Street.

With these images, I'm seduced by the sheer line of it.

This creates 'the sheer line'.

This is now your tension tool and you will use this to create 'the sheer line'.

A few of the cast mistake wildness for controlled energy, but Madison Keesler is particularly good – her dancing always alert to the fact that the sheering lines and diabolic speeds of Forsythe's choreography are anchored in the logic of classicism.

Their suggestion of abstract illumination manuscripts is interesting but doesn't outweigh an aura of preciousness that is in turn contradicted by their sheer, production-line abundance.

Alex and Brittany Smith, the 15-year-old twins who appear in advertisements for John Frieda's Sheer Blonde line of hair products, are known for their tresses.

Lydgate had few peers in his sheer productiveness; 145,000 lines of his verse survive.