sounding line in a sentence

Examples

1. After an overhaul, " Pioneer " set out on 25 February 1962 to begin the 1962 field season, running a deep-sea sounding line to Hawaii.
2. The compasse of the hole was about eighty yards, and so profound, that a sounding line of fifty fathoms could hardly find or feel the bottom ."
3. Traditionally conducted by ships with a sounding line or echo sounding, surveys are increasingly conducted with the aid of aircraft and sophisticated electronic sensor systems in shallow waters.
4. Early depth sounding was achieved using lead line sounding ( or sounding line ), where a lead weight attached to a length of rope marked with depth values.
5. Water near the coast and not too deep to be fathomed by a hand sounding line was referred to as " in soundings " or " on soundings ".
6. To measure the depth of shallow waters, boatmen used a sounding line containing fathom points, some marked and others in between, called " deeps ", unmarked but estimated by the user.
7. The trouble is that neither Lieberman nor any of the other adherents of this sweet-sounding line have yet illustrated how to dissect sectarian religion from faith so that it passes constitutional muster.
8. The area offshore beyond the 100 fathom line, too deep to be fathomed by a hand sounding line, was referred to as " out of soundings " or " off soundings ".
9. Under the command of John Pillsbury from 1884-1889 the ship intensified Gulf Stream work with current measurements using his device, sounding lines from shore to beyond the current, temperatures and biological sampling.
10. There is no data between soundings or between sounding lines to guarantee that there is not a hazard such as a wreck or a coral head waiting there to ruin a sailor's day.