Sentence examples for short of the floor from inspiring English sources

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Ending just short of the floor below, the stairs appear to float magically downward.

The ice formation stretches from the rim of the canyon to a point 4 inches short of the floor.

A plumb line was fixed underneath the Velcro strap attached around the subject's head and a small weight suspended from it (105 grams altogether), which hung to just short of the floor.

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Mr. Leahy replied that he had intended to bring up the nomination but that Senate rules required him to cut today's committee session short because of the floor debate on Iraq.

When he discovered that the drapery they had planned to use fell short of the stage floor because of a faulty conversion from meters into yards, Mr. Eula went out and bought a roll of white seamless paper and, using black stove paint and a broom, sketched the Eiffel Tower.

The drills were used to enlarge the osteotomy and are stopped 1 mm short of the sinus floor.

One of the doors was locked and the New York fire brigade's ladders only reached the sixth storey, 30 feet (9 metres) short of the burning floors.

It was Salford's turn to hit back, as Mullaney showed quick feet to free up Fages, who hit the floor short of the line but was deemed to have not been tackled by Mellor and got back up to touch down, allowing Mullaney to convert.

Some leadership staffers said Monday that Democrats have tried to discuss several steps short of a floor vote with Wilson, but the Congressman said he hasn't been in contact with leadership.

A simple retrofit might consist of bracing the short wall between the floor and the foundation with plywood, bolting it to the foundation and connecting it to the floor.

Stacks of clothes -- a million pairs of underwear, a billion pairs of socks, a zillion pairs of shorts -- covered the floor in heaps so high that we had to hop from one bare spot to another like frogs on a lily pond.

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