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Sentence Examples
| Additionally I have found that the typical grapnel often does not provide sufficient holding power. |
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| This entails digging down around the mine so that a grapnel can be attached and the mine pulled out of the ground my men under cover. |
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| Furthermore, the weight of the inertia parts unnecessarily increases the weight of the whole grapnel. |
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| This proved invaluable for accurately plotting the outline of the wreck and positioning our grapnel line exactly where we wanted it. |
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| The skipper rigs a 45m line with a grapnel to place it as close to the bridge as possible. |
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| To ensure that the shotline remains in one place, a folding grapnel anchor of the type commonly used by small boats in areas where a sand anchor will not hold is ideal. |
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| Instantly dazzled, I scurry along to the top of a bed at the very end, by the corner, where a petrol lamp jingles unnoticed from a ceiling grapnel. |
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| With the grapnel and rope attached to its antlers the animal struggles to get loose and breaks the rope, but not before it pulls the hydrofloat over to a wooden dock. |
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| The collapsible grapnel is a hand-thrown grapnel hook that is used for climbing, removing mines and other objects, and pulling concertina and barbed wire obstacles. |
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| They board from under the stern, out of sight of the bridge, by throwing a grapnel up to the rail and climbing up the rope. |
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| Enjoy complete superhero freedom in the environment with the use of Batman's grapnel gun to get to any place you can see, jump from any height and glide in any direction. |
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| The employee died when he was crushed by the grapnel of a pallet loader as he was attempting to remove a row of excess stones from a pallet, following a pile-up of boards. |
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| On October 11, 2005, an employee died when he was crushed by the grapnel of a pallet loader while attempting to remove surplus blocks from a pallet after a pile-up of boards. |
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| The iron-catching grapnel was attached to the rope and three rope pieces bridled the animal through its mouth and were also attached to the rope on its tail. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| We thought we could get over this difficulty by wrapping the grapnel in cotton wool. |
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| Rectus carried the rope, and I had the grapnel, wrapped in its cotton wool. |
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| They slept fairly and, at daybreak, got up the grapnel and hoisted the sail again. |
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| A grapnel was hove on to the rocks, and there she lay as snug as any on board could desire. |
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| That which is bent to the grapnel by which a boat rides, now substituted by chain. |
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| The moment the weight was off, mulcher loosed the grapnel and flung it down into the confusion. |
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| A pyrotechnical combustible attached to a grapnel for adhering to and setting fire to ships. |
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| In silence he helped the Capataz to get the grapnel on board. |
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| Just as this distribution was made, the pirates cast their grapnel. |
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| To my great delight, over came the grapnel, nearly falling on our heads. |
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| Tony Weston hauled in the grapnel, and stowed it in the fore-sheets. |
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| Little Victor in his night-clothes runs to the window, enormously amused at the parabolic flight without reason, for it is too dark to see the grapnel, of my prized tree. |
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