pulley
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On the worst grades, wagons were lifted and lowered by pulley and rope.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Prior to the police operation, most of the miners were only able to get underground through a makeshift pulley system operated by people at the surface.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2025
I saw my patient had opened the door by using a pulley in his mouth.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024
They had watched the situation spiral as the protesters stood their ground, refusing to abandon Hamilton Hall and using a pulley system to bring supplies into the building they had occupied.
From Seattle Times ● May 1, 2024
A tall castle with a drawbridge that moved up and down, and a pulley with a string that hoisted soldiers up over the wall.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
While contemporaries struggled with airborne instability, Wilbur and Orville Wright used a system of pulleys to warp their aircraft's fabric wings, allowing a pilot to bank and turn with greater ease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
His trips also revealed ornate loom pulleys and pottery, challenging stereotypes that African art is "limited to masks and figures", Oberhofer added.
From Barron's ● Jan. 16, 2026
The nearly century-old theater is stuffed to the rafters, quite literally, with set pieces, which hang from ropes and pulleys attached to the fly loft above the stage and wings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
He writes his great-grandfather's "technical diagrams of ramps and pulleys suggest that he was also a trained engineer who couldn't resist a project".
From BBC ● May 3, 2025
He drew it back, setting the bow’s wheels and pulleys spinning.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
Vocabulary lists containing pulley
Force and Motion (Mechanics) - Middle School
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