Sentence examples for was borne on from inspiring English sources

Where it could not be laid on crossties placed directly on the flat or gently sloping surface of the Atlantic Coastal Plain, it was borne on short posts that were intended to permit surface wash to pass beneath the track.

News, good and bad, was borne on the faces of the people around the school.

The coffin was borne on a horse-drawn gun carriage, draped in the queen mother's personal standard and topped with a diamond-encrusted crown and a wreath of white roses with a card reading "In loving memory".

She descended the stairs, pulled apart her breakaway formal dress to reveal a pointy, shiny sci-fi carapace, and continued singing as she was borne on a platform to the stage, where dancers in glistening white shared some brief fluttery gestures while the dirge picked up a beat.

In some European Celtic or Germanic countries prior to the adoption of Christianity, the ruler upon his election was raised on a shield and, while standing upon it, was borne on the shoulders of several chief men of the nation (or tribe) in a procession around his assembled subjects.

The unrest seems to be borne on by waves of rage, intensified with every new Palestinian casualty.

Mr Stückl encourages this: the high priest is borne on a litter like the papal one.

Male and female reproductive organs are borne on separate plants.

Male and female organs are borne on separate plants.

Male and female flowers are borne on different plants.

Vegetative and reproductive structures are borne on or in them.