Sentence examples for towrope from inspiring English sources

The launch approached the shore and then executed a neat, sharp turn that swung the towrope and the ferry raft at its end into an unfurling arc that ended with the front of the raft wedged against the shore.

Just before the sun set behind the snow-capped Dolomites, we reached the top of the single-seat lift and caught a clumsy but functional towrope, which took only a couple of minutes to carry us to the Averau peak.

The pilot, Robert Lewis, died after his banner towrope became entangled in the steering mechanism.

THE surf was up on Lake Charlotte, a 255-acre blue gem among the farm fields west of Minneapolis, and Todd Zaugg was yelling at his son to get into the water: "All right, señor, you're on!" "Hit it, giddyup!" yelled Taylor, Mr. Zaugg's 15-year-old, who floated half-submerged, gripping a towrope.

She gritted her teeth, fingers curled on the towrope handle, as Mr. Zaugg idled in the middle of the lake.

Twenty feet away, on a shelf outside the kitchen, was a car towrope we planned to use to lower ourselves down a 15-foot wall ringing the compound.

It was then that I found the car towrope beside some wrenches and motor oil.

Men were clambering about — trying to hold on to vehicles, calling for towropes — and returning fire.

But unlike its cousin sport of wakeboarding — which is an amalgam of surfing and snowboarding that uses short, binding-equipped boards — wakesurfing avoids towropes once a rider is standing, relying instead on the hydrodynamics of an artificially created wave.