Sentence examples for static line from inspiring English sources

They are mustered outside and tied to a static line among the trees; the occasional yelp reminds us they are out there.

When the rear door of the C-17 opens, the boxes roll out, the static line pulls off their tops, and the food packets tumble out.

After leaping from the window of a "distressed" building, a static line secured to a doorknob releases the parachute less than two seconds later.

And the entire package, once packed with heavy plastic food bags, was wrapped with one-inch webbing attached by a "static line" to the plane.

They were not the first to discover that parachutes need personal operation – the static line does not always work – and that Peter Ridsdale and Far Eastern promises are not the answer.

Here, the artists often strove to convey movement -- crashing waves, raging battles, swirling geishas, kabuki performers in high dudgeon -- in terms of static line drawings, in ways that powerfully suggest the contained dynamism of the anime style.

It is, however, counter-productive to think along such static lines, due in part to the sheer uselessness of a lot of the terrorist activity seen so far.

Dressed in authentic gear while airborne on a vintage C-47, they clip their parachutes' static lines to a cable running down the center of the fuselage.

It sits near glitch prints heavy on static lines by Kon Trubkovich that riff on psychotherapy and a pair of Diane Arbus photos of nudists.

The breakout of what had been nearly static lines came after NATO aircraft spent days striking positions and military equipment held by the Qaddafi forces, weakening them to the point that a ground attack was possible, the rebels said.

Curlicue figures unfolding around static lines hint at Pérotin's rudimentary polyphony, but there is no sense here of the infectious rhythmic lilt that gives current performances of Pérotin's music their immediate appeal.