Sentence examples for strake from inspiring English sources

The lapstrake type of planking, in which each plank or strake overlaps slightly the one below it, can be seen in an elementary form in some dugouts with plank sides.

It has the hunched look, crisp edges and side strake spearing back from the wing vent already seen on the One-77, and all the outer panels bar the bumpers are of lightweight carbonfibre, whose glossy weave is exposed around the body's lower perimeter.

There is more aggression, however, between the concept's axles, with a horizontal side strake behind the front wheel and a steep windshield rake.

Just below a side strake behind the front wheel, a striking S-curve dips, then flares gradually upward and over the rear fender.

An annular strip (the region between two concentric circles) can be cut and bent into a helical strake that follows approximately the contour of a cylinder.

Techniques of differential geometry are employed to find the dimensions of the annular strip that will best match the required curvature of the strake.

The hull planking is edge-fastened, in the same manner as in the large vessels of this period, using keys or tenons, at the seams, let into keel and garboard, or into adjoining strakes, each tenon secured by two pins or nails.

The V8 was always thus, but with a deeper nose, fewer grille-slats, a revised tail-diffuser, extended sills, wider wheels and a fine collection of vent strakes on the bonnet, it looks more muscular without descending into bling.

The strakes are also nailed to the frames.

But the strakes are a reminder that the looks of a car — or a building or a chair — depend not just on proportion, however critical they are, but on lines and curves and textures that lead the eye.

Limited, not surprisingly, to a run of 2,012 examples, the right-hand-drive hatchbacks, which are to be sold only in Britain, are decorated with a Union Jack motif running over the hood toward the back of the car, the emblem of the London Olympics on the side strakes and embossed on the leather seats, and an etching on the dashboard of the London skyline.