Sentence examples for twists of wire from inspiring English sources

With a few twists of wire this is elevated from mere caricature to a psychological portrait.

The new grille is a matrix, laser-cut from steel in a complex pattern that reinterprets the traditional twists of wire with an abstract, futuristic effect.

The 1980s pieces are touched with sweet, wry delicacies: tendril-like twists of wire; prickly star-burst knots; baroque curls and braidings; candy-cane hooks; little metal sleeves for joints and angles; washers; clamps; beaded chains of the kind used for light-pulls; and flicks of paint, often bright.

Except for some twists of wire, these cans consist of thin pieces of printed plastic and the speakers are actually plastic with a coil of copper wire embedded, by hand, into a set of tiny traces.

People claimed that he could make a radio from a battery and a twist of wire.

She travelled as inconspicuously as possible, armed with essentials, such as a screwdriver, loo paper, and a twist of wire to hold shut doors without locks.

For ordinary slab mats, where the force of the concrete interacting with the rebar during its placement is minimal, and movement of the mats is unlikely, using a simple, single twist of wire around each rebar intersection, twisted together tightly, will suffice.

The diagnostic criterion for Twiddler's syndrome is radiological evidence of twisting of wires in the presence of failure of spinal cord stimulation.

On a wall outside a community centre lie twists of barbed wire.

There are twists of barbed wire and miles of electrified fence.

Both make use of soiled canvas from the laundry below Ms. Bontecou's East Village apartment, stretched over a steel armature and reinforced with twists of copper wire.