Sentence examples for system of pulleys from inspiring English sources

Two of them support a system of pulleys and sacks to ferry sand or toys.

It's a system of pulleys, designed to enable a person to lift a greater weight than they could unaided.

An advanced system of pulleys known as a Gyrotonic station helps develop flexibility through fluid, dance-specific movements.

Thanks to an elaborate system of pulleys operated by 120-pound barbells, an enlarger swings down from the ceiling.

A system of pulleys and a falling bathtub was to catapult them from the castle roof to freedom.

Twelve years later, the school was hoisted into the air by a complicated system of pulleys so that another two rooms could be built underneath.

The ancient Greeks used "temple magic", letting heavy doors open by themselves via secret systems of pulleys, wheels, ropes and reservoirs and employing hidden tubes and secret passages to make the Sibyl whisper through the walls.

Here, you can dine next to the sea from which your meal was hauled just hours before by an ancient system of nets, pulleys and winches.

On one side of the tent, two stainless-steel launchers, facing opposite directions to account for changing winds, employ a system of bungee pulleys to catapult the 12-kilogram drones into the air at 84 kilometers per hour.

Gradually, as if guided by a system of hidden pulleys beneath the pavement, the cars glided south through the Sunday twilight, carrying their occupants to the next show, Derek Lam's, at the National Arts Club on Gramercy Park.

Bush gave Shannon responsibility for the Differential Analyzer, an elaborate system of gears, pulleys and rods that took up most of a large room-and that was arguably the mightiest computing machine on the planet at the time (see "Computing After Silicon, TRR May/June 2000).