Anybody else ever seen a spring-loaded cattle guard?. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
I slipped a collapsible, spring-loaded sap from my jacket. From Wordnik.com. [Rogue Warrior]
Kodak's ditching of the spring-loaded USB wasn't for naught. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
O'BRIEN: But it's spring-loaded, ready to go - there it goes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2008] Reference
The cylinder is prevented from rotating by five spring-loaded pins. From Wordnik.com. [The Empress File]
But for the spring-loaded 22-year-old Li, a mere half-point lead yielded gold. From Wordnik.com. [Days Of Wonder] Reference
An open-ended toilet-paper holder is simpler to use than a spring-loaded holder. From Wordnik.com. [Universal design can make a safer bathroom] Reference
The spring-loaded knife was one with which Chavez had played earlier in the day. From Wordnik.com. [The Bear and the Dragon]
A spring-loaded arm swings out over the toilet lid when closed and locks in place. From Wordnik.com. [Baby-proofing the bathroom] Reference
The brush is under constant spring-loaded pressure against the face of the armature. From Wordnik.com. [San Andreas]
They're sort of spring-loaded for whatever abort they can pull off at any given moment. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2005] Reference
One tunnel held a conventional spring-loaded rat trap while a parallel tunnel held nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Iran has enough of its own problems without needing to blame the West] Reference
It's -- we are spring-loaded for failure, unfortunately, when it comes to the dieting front. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 1, 2006] Reference
It seems that they're mostly fake candles, long tubes with a spring-loaded device at the top. From Wordnik.com. [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference
And this is something you have just got to be spring-loaded and ready and watching all the time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 8, 2007] Reference
There are mortar rounds buried with spring-loaded triggers that explode when a Humvee passes over them. From Wordnik.com. [Stalemate] Reference
Her expectations, on the other hand, are much like one of those trick cans with the spring-loaded snake. From Wordnik.com. [Tribal Elder] Reference
The pump had also been mounted on its own small raft structure, essentially a table with spring-loaded legs. From Wordnik.com. [The Sum of all Fears]
A spring-loaded pin had flown from the watchband assembly; the watch had fallen from his wrist to the vehicle floor. From Wordnik.com. ['The Nuclear Express: A Political History Of The Bomb and Its Proliferation'] Reference
They utilise a spiked disk to prise out the grain while the cob is held by an adjustable spring-loaded pressure plate. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
Well, there is a small valve, can't weigh half an ounce, lightly spring-loaded, that is in the power-steering mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [Vigorish] Reference
For example, we've seen a spring-loaded outlet cover that is easy enough to use by adults but hard for children to negotiate. From Wordnik.com. [Animal-shaped outlet covers are a real dog] Reference
In a few seconds there was a click and the square lifted up an inch, supported by a small, spring-loaded shaft in the center. From Wordnik.com. [The Runaway Asteroid] Reference
"We will not be, none of us, delivering software products in 10 years," predicted Microsoft's spring-loaded CEO, Steve Ballmer. From Wordnik.com. [Goodbye, Shrink-Wrap: Software For Rent] Reference
In the fast-reed loom, a spring-loaded finger carried by the sley enter in abrupt contact with a step in a metal block-called the. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
Bryne smiled during the many years when his pedals were not being taken as seriously as the big brands with spring-loaded pedals. From Wordnik.com. [Speedplay: the little pedal with the big presence in the Tour] Reference
Old-style seesaws are giving way to spring-loaded ones so you can't "jump off and have your friend's eyeballs come out of his head.". From Wordnik.com. [Playgrounds Of The Future: They Ain't Got Swing] Reference
We all smiled and cheered to hear it on our special day, never realizing that like the spring-loaded song, life can stop suddenly. From Wordnik.com. [Birthday Music] Reference
After take-off, he sat as if spring-loaded, with the curtains angrily pulled back enough so that his eyes never strayed from his wife. From Wordnik.com. [Helen Davey: Tales of Pan Am: Pathological Passengers] Reference
It's quite likely the law enforcement agency are spring-loaded and I suspect there are going to be a lot of arrests and a lot going on. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 18, 2003] Reference
Another part of the routine was new, too: the spring-loaded needle that delivered the epinephrine failed to deploy. From Wordnik.com. [Anaphylaxis] Reference
However, these lamp sockets should be provided with a spring-loaded suspension device to absorb the permanent shocks caused by the crane. From Wordnik.com. [10. Mounting of Lighting Installations] Reference
The world stopped for a moment, just long enough for me to feel drops of ice water shoot out of all my pores as if they were spring-loaded. From Wordnik.com. [Dexter in the Dark]
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