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Sentence Examples Look at all these ladders that we can't use, instead forced to run in random directions below and jump like hyperactive idiots. After climbing a fire escape to the first floor, he clambered onto the roof on a set of trade ladders that had been left there. When exploration had to be suspended temporarily because of bad weather the ladders rotted and the cave had to be re-rigged. On the other hand people still avoid walking under ladders and knock on wood and cross their fingers in order to guard there luck. He knew how to cut off water to besieged fortifications, and how to construct bridges, mantlets, scaling ladders, and other instruments. A diving board and three entrance ladders, along with marble angels adorned it. Most children's and grown-ups' games are highly competitive, whether it is Monopoly, snap, snakes and ladders, chess or hopscotch. When the celebrations reached their height, initiates climbed nine-foot trees that were barked and notched to form ladders. Always take the proper precautions with ladders and safety equipment, and don't overextend your reach or place yourself in precarious positions. You remember that overambitious roofs have collapsed, and that the superstition about walking under ladders is just common sense. Once a nation that liked its dancing men in tights, we now adore Baryshnikov in his boiler suit, strutting his stuff with a set of ladders. Most cave divers would opt for rope ladders and a safety belay for entry and exit, but we used single rope caving techniques and equipment. This leads to a series of climbs facilitated by aluminium ladders and fixed ropes. She was left stranded in Tadcaster town centre as the bogus caller drove off in his van, which had two ladders fixed to the roof. Two men driving a blue Transit van with ladders on its roof called to the home of the elderly couple offering to fix their guttering. The remainder of the aluminum was utilized in furniture, equipment, ventilation ducts, ladders, stair treads, and railings. All three children's bedrooms have overhead galleries with built-in ladders. Aerial shots of the beleaguered fort, with Mexican troops climbing scaling ladders, lit by flashes of musketry, are striking. The stage is equipped with traps, a fly loft, lights, ladders and the height from stage to gridiron is 40 feet. Climbing wire rope ladders in a wet or dry suit requires good technique and plenty of stamina. Show More Sentences They were rescued when firemen put ladders up to the bedroom window, smashed the glass and guided the trio to safety. He came to a low table where some children were playing snakes and ladders, a game of pure luck. In this game of snakes and ladders, it is possible to come down a ladder and climb to triumph on the venom of a snake. It was like having to go back to the first row in a game of snakes and ladders. You run around climbing ladders, shimmying across ropes and running from one platform to another, collecting gems while avoiding the bad guys. The mass media and the rest of corporate America are enthralled with professionals scaling career ladders to new heights. The glassed-in ice pilot's tower is the modern-day equivalent of a crow's nest, three vertical ladders above the bridge. Before cherry-picker platforms the hedge was cut by teams of estate workers with garden shears on ladders. From there, the space began to grow, with found objects, Jack's beanstalk, pop-out characters, balloons, ladders in the air. But he was invalided out in 1991 with knee problems which doctors blamed climbing ships' ladders. Directly in front of you are the hatches and companion ladders leading below to the berthing cabins. Falls from ladders cause the most injuries, followed by accidents with electrical tools such as lawnmowers, power drills and hedge strimmers. The condition of the decks and companion ladders, where cargo contamination could result in dangerous footing, is satisfactory. Climb the wide ladders back aboard the Aggressor after your dive and indulge in a hot freshwater shower. Of course there nothing stopping mum and dad enjoying the challenge of draughts, snakes and ladders or constructing a Duplo design. They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up. We are all looking forward to going into the base of the icefall tomorrow to try our luck on the crevasse ladders. Stowing systems can utilize both of our standard ranges of accommodation ladders or can be designed to suit an existing ladder. The floor of the leisure centre's main sports hall is covered with colourful climbing frames, crawl-ways, footbridges and ladders. With the fire brigade's ladders too short to reach the lift, a mountain rescue team was called in to help. Show More Sentences Because of the plane's position it was decided that the most expeditious way to do this was with ladders to the rear door. Children had access to scrabble, Chess, snakes and ladders, ludo and mastermind. Don't forget classic games such as snakes and ladders, ludo, Chinese chequers, chess and draughts. Evening entertainment included games of ludo, snakes and ladders and draughts. Climbing up ladders was part and parcel of her live-in job during this wet period in her life. Then we hit on friends and neighbors to contribute toe board brackets, toe boards, scaffolds, ladders and moral support. Then a rain of fire arrows light the ladders as some hit the soldiers setting them aflame. Finally, going over the walls of a besieged fortress generally required scaling ladders or a siege tower. Jacob's ladders are perennial herbs in the Phlox Family. Showy Jacob's ladder grows from a branched tap root that produces a many-leaved cluster from its crown. Obstacles such as ladders, transitions, wall rides and quarter pipes were placed in an open area, with each rider given two minutes to display their skills on the course. We had to tackle the fire using ladders and the aerial ladder platform. The attackers cut down karaka trees for ladders to breach the walls. Leaves in different parts of the canopy were accessed with ladders, climbing ropes, and a hydraulic lift, to facilitate photosynthetic measurements with hand-held instruments. A set of wooden ladders led up to the nearest entrance to the cave system. Rather than being ladders of success, our lives are more like rivers. They had to be mended by hand or taken to one of shops in the city where a young woman repaired ladders in silk stockings using a special stand and hook. She's a social climber with ladders in her stockings but a good heart. In our house, a clear-out involves binning the odd pair of tights with more ladders than Bob The Builder, or removing a bunch of long-dead flowers from a vase. Then it's onwards and upwards to the treetop scramble, with its rope ladders, wooden bridges and hidden routes to the little dragons' amazing secret tree-top lair. Never work on roofs without proper crawling boards and roof ladders. Show More Sentences There are books on some of the rungs and the tops of the ladders are painted leaf green or copper beech bronze to blend in with the surrounding foliage. On the night Joe died, they found the ladders partly pulled down, despite them normally being pushed up at a height only accessible by leaping up a nearby wall. The sun lazily climbed up the sky, using the clouds as ladders. This was a particularly risky means of concluding a siege as the attackers using ladders would be continually assailed from above on their climb up the walls. Firms have reduced the total number of job descriptions, stripping rungs from the job ladders that were traditionally climbed by less-skilled workers. Fish passes work like ladders, allowing the migrating sea trout and salmon to leap from one stage to the next over the weirs, which can be as high as five metres. In the middle of August, though, the Nile had sunk so low that the ships could not approach the city walls close enough for the scaling ladders to reach. Places that I knew about all had either stairs or backstairs to the servants quarters, so I was quite surprised to see that at Beamish ladders had been the order of the day. As Graham stood on the top of the wooden step ladders, trimming away at the box, and the barberry that tangled into it, he glanced down at the cat. Straight ladders are the most common and least expensive type used with bookcases, display racks, and other types of shelving or cabinets that have a consistent depth. There were playful screams and calls all around from the children as they went up ladders and down slides, across the jungle-gyms and chasing each other. Traditional games and competitions in this year's event will include water boxing, a slingshot contest, sack races and a form of snakes and ladders. A boxy, low-lying structure about 2 feet tall was surmounted by precarious, spindly towers outfitted with tiny ladders rising to a height of 6 feet. One clever sea lion found his way into one of the dam's fish ladders, which allow salmon to bypass the dam's power station on their way to spawning grounds upriver. Then a blue van struck the front of the lorry as it was in the ditch, pushing two ladders, which were on board, into the driver's side of the lorry cab. Underground, many artefacts can be seen, including stemples supporting stacked deads, ladders, pump rods and pipes, pulleys, ore tubs, windlasses, guide chutes and timbers. My pool had steps instead of ladders, so you didn't really have to climb. People create their own subsets, or as a marketer will explain, ladders. John Gray, of Tythebarn Street, Darwen, climbed 50 feet onto the roof of the town's India Mill and then went on to the top of the chimney using ladders running up the side. The ladders are extended horizontally on the floor to the required length. Show More Sentences We both climb down various escape ladders, and finally jump into an abandoned alley, where we take off our ski masks, and zip down our parkas, revealing tuxedoes. City officials proposed using the revenue to cover the cost of removing 620 miles of road, building fish ladders, and other environmental protections. With farmers' cooperation, fish ladders were improved, five dams were removed entirely, and alternate water sources were found for some irrigators. We also have constructed fish ladders and we developed quite a few parks for the public to come and see, and learn about the potential of the river restoration. It is worth looking around, as you descend, to work out how on earth the original explorers managed to have fixed iron ladders meandering up the pitch. In fact, you don't need a book collection at all, since these functional and attractive ladders are every bit as useful in the kitchen, den, home office or even the garage. Aluminum is used in hulls, deckhouses, and hatch covers of commercial ships, as well as in equipment items, such as ladders, railings, gratings, windows, and doors. Some people have made it in a very short time with no training and others have graduated from university with degrees before climbing their career ladders. We also enjoyed dominoes, draughts, snakes and ladders, and Monopoly. The construction of fish ladders has enhanced the fish-holding capacity of the rivers. Fish ladders are a system of concrete steps that allow fish to swim upriver to spawn. The Environment Agency now uses oak, salmon ladders to help migrating fish to reach their spawning pools. Doorways were made on the roof, with ladders positioned both on the inside and outside of the houses. That guy is such a noob! Why would he use a nerd pole to get up there? Doesn't he know how to use ladders? Lowering the defences in this way had the effect of making them easier to scale with ladders. Foreigners and technology combine to push Americans to lower rungs on their income ladders, or so say the doomsters. The spare apparatus fleet comprises six spare engines, three spare ladders, one spare tac, and three spare district chief's units. The pirates, nine in all, had approached the ship in swift boats and used their own ladders to board it. The school now offers a wide range of subjects, and no longer has a system of ladders. Aden was a fortified city, but although he had scaling ladders they broke and after half a day of fierce battle Afonso was forced to retreat. Show More Sentences Known for manufacturing the Protector Home Fire Escape Ladder, Calico Ladders will now offer a wide range of ladders and stands. The measures will include protecting fish habitats, building fish ladders, increasing fish breeding and releasing. Many dams were built with fish ladders to help salmon circumvent them, but some key dams were not. That Turners Falls dam, despite fish ladders, is a devastating impediment, designed more for salmon than for shad passage. Those factors include diseases, fisheries and man-made structures such as dams and fish ladders. Bear Mountain Fire Tower's fire fighting theme is complete with hand cannons, hoses, buckets, escape chutes and ladders. Since the 1970s, an increasing number of eel ladders have been constructed in North America and Europe to help the fish bypass obstructions. New Delhi Sitting in a small room at Sapera Basti in east Delhi, Munni and Guddu are busy playing a board game of snakes and ladders. Along with your 'brethren, Get ready your scaling ladders, And your engines of onfall and assault, To attack the walls of Khung. Ten teams, six points separating them and a second half of the season playing snakes and ladders. It's a little bit like snakes and ladders where you roll the dice and see what you get. Safety tips from the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons for using ladders include using a stepstool instead of furniture when dusting hard-to-reach areas. Salmon, which inhabit both environments, have been reintroduced and a succession of fish ladders have been built into weirs to enable them to travel upstream. But his snakes and ladders career would soon take its biggest hit. The knight reached the summit of Rocciamelone where he left a bronze triptych of three crosses, a feat which he conducted with the use of ladders to traverse the ice. I couldn't understand how so many junior Sailors, chief petty officers, and officers could have used these ladders without noticing the discrepancies. Withal he has the problem of maintaining the interest of the reader who is always being sent back to square one in a sort of intellectual game of snakes and ladders. La Madera, a wood-products cooperative in northern New Mexico, produces latillas, vigas, and kiva ladders for the specialized Santa Fe adobe construction market. While they can work their way over big waterfalls by grabbing onto rocks with their sucker-like mouths, they have trouble with dams and fish ladders. Instead of being a sweat shop without career ladders and low-paying jobs, precision manufacturing is a career that pays good salaries with a career ladder and clean shops. Show More Sentences In response to this problem, Bonneville and some of the other Columbia dams have installed fish ladders so spawning salmon can swim past the man-made obstructions. As there was no other hoist and cage to operate, we had to take to the ladders strung down the manway compartment to reach the twelfth level, four hundred feet below. Experts predicted that the project to build salmon ladders to help the migratory fish return to their rearing grounds would mean thousands of salmon in the river. Comes with 52 in Exmark, 32 in Snapper, 12x6 enclosed trailor, 1 stihl edger, 2 each stihl trimmers, backpack blowers, a shindawa edger and 2 ladders. Housewares Manufacturing manufactures and markets ironing tables, household ladders, rotary dryers, indoor airers, shower screens and garden equipment. Examples from Classical Literature Consequently they could not be taken by assault without scaling ladders, or otherwise, usual in sieges, unless by the sally port. Nay, they might have been venturesome and gone down by ladders, same as the old ones used to be from sollar to sollar. To these timbers are fixed small timbers along the footwall, to which are fastened the lagging and ladders. By ladders now, and toilsomely, for it was steep, and not too certain holding for the feet. The ladders were thrown down, but they were quickly again raised against the escarp. On the inboard side of this passage six non-watertight doors opened on to as many iron ladders leading down to the boiler-rooms. Jukes understood the boatswain to splutter that the bridge ladders were gone. Enough anti-rummies were loafing in quarters to man the engine and the ladders. The low ceiling, smoke-blackened and dingy, was pierced by several square trap-doors with rough-hewn ladders leading up to them. It saw Wallace and Gromit scaling ladders to hoist bunting up around a trust manor and was shown at 14 National Trust locations. But like all so-called ladders, they could not stand the gaff. Sievers thrust a bar into his hand and pointed to a line of ladders. A loud cheer was followed by a simultaneous mounting of the ladders. Nearer were men climbing up ladders with hods on their shoulders. These let down ropes, and ladders had been hauled up the steepest places. Seesaw word ladders are ladders that alternate or seesaw between lists of transpositions of just two words that differ by a single letter. The authority of the ood extends to the accommodation ladders or gangways. I can still remember the huge stacks of books, in bookcases which stretched heavenwards, with long extendable ladders everywhere. We simply went to the midships legs and climbed up the ladders there. While agency teams broker deals and dominate the headlines, building surveyors can often be found behind the scenes scaling ladders and taking measurements. Show More Sentences Of course, the tables, ladders and chairs match between midgets El Torito and Hornswoggle would be a perfect opener in what could be a very exciting night for WWE fanatics. I had also worried my partner Gordon, a keen climber, would be bored as he followed me up the series of fixed cables, metal rungs, ladders and bridges. The mini-movie, which featured Wallace and Gromit scaling ladders to hoist the bunting up around a magnificent Trust manor, will be shown at 14 National Trust locations. The product also negates the need for dangerous attempts at clearing snow and ice from satellite dishes, such as scaling ladders and getting on roofs. The temporary path set over the crevasses by aluminum ladders and ropes was damaged in the avalanche, and a new one was never fixed because all the teams went home. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with ladders What is the adjective for ladders? What is the noun for ladders? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words ladderlike laddered ladder-back ladder ladanum Lada laddie laddies laddish laddishness laddy lade 7-letter Words Starting With l la lad ladd ladde ladder