Sentence examples for under strip from inspiring English sources

These sleepless nights my wife and I have spent together in battered delivery rooms, on blue linoleum floors, under strip lights, quietly talking, have reminded us what a mystery this thing is.

The family's efforts to nest are reminiscent of make-believe in a wendy house: blue-edged crockery for best, a red plastic candle holder and family photographs carefully arranged on a dresser under strip lights that glare down on a hospital-green carpet.

The fraction of sediment lost as silt + clay versus sand was greater under conventional tillage than under strip tillage.

Sediment lost as silt + clay was from 58 to 78% of the total under conventional and from 30 to 39% under strip tillage.

30 (7), 753 756) where we observed that under strip biaxial stretch the simulated fiber splay responses were not in good agreement with the experimental results, suggesting non-affine deformations may have occurred.

A new stress field solution for reinforced concrete blocks under strip loading is developed herein which is based on the lower-bound theorem of limit analysis and adopts a modified Coulomb failure criterion for concrete.

Many bodies have not been identified and wait in a sweltering room under strips of red cloth with their feet poking out.

Or, "I slept under strips of frayed curtain, in a room / that lacked furniture, and resembled a false- / bottomed suitcase; at length I relaxed, only / then to discover how many of my treasured, once / chronic aliments had either blistered or burst".

His dark, coarse hair is pulled back under a strip of leather.

But mostly the people around us muttered quietly, waiting their turn under fluorescent strip lights.

More plating reaches under the strip as the width decreases and/or gap thickness increases.