plumb line in a sentence
Examples
- CAPTION : Chalked plumb line will mark vertical line on wall when snapped lightly after pulling plumb line tight.
- Inside the tower is an old-fashioned plumb line with a weight and an electronic measuring device on the end.
- If the notches corresponding to the plumb lines matched on both sides, it showed that the beam was level.
- This carried out the same task as the torquetum, but was calibrated with linear scales, read by plumb lines.
- CAPTION : Chalked plumb line will mark vertical line on wall when snapped lightly after pulling plumb line tight.
- This weekend, the cozy house's interior resembles a tightly secured cat's cradle of plumb lines and carpenters'levels on every mantel.
- In the film, which is both comical and poetic, Lopez marks the leaves and drops plumb lines from the fruit.
- Golf architects and engineers drew new plumb lines from the 11th tee, which was moved some 25 feet to the right.
- The outer casing of the gyrocompass device is held in such a way that it remains aligned with the local plumb line.
- Transit instruments are installed to be perpendicular to the local level ( which is a plane perpendicular to a plumb line ).