Sentence examples for tough materials from inspiring English sources

The tough materials — concrete and perforated metal — are a sensitive response to the Bowery's rough history.

The family tree — known as a phylogeny — showed that the closest living relatives to the dust mites are all able to tolerate low humidity and to digest tough materials like skin and keratin.

Survival Consultants International, a small Florida company, is using several layers of Kevlar and other tough materials to design external airbags that would inflate nanoseconds after a blast and absorb some of its force.Yet as vehicles get tougher, the blasts get fiercer.

Dr. Barbero realized that the forces exerted on the pressurized plug, and the need to rely on friction against the tunnel walls to keep it in place under the onslaught of floodwaters, meant that it had to be made from very tough materials.

This result provides essential information to design tough materials based on the double network concept.

The search for simultaneously strong and tough materials requires the development of novel design strategies and synthesis routes.

It's tough material.

This can be tough material for a comedian, but that hasn't stopped her.

"It's quite tough material," Ms. Jeffs said, during a visit to New York last month.

Last comes the tympan, a sheet of smooth, tough material that can withstand great pressure without stretching.

Plants contain large amounts of a tough material called cellulose that consists of tightly linked sugar molecules.