pulley

Example Sentences

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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

The workers check and replace the large plastic bulbs on the long strings of lights and then use pulleys and hoists to hang and sometimes muscle those long strands of faceted lights onto the branches.

From Los Angeles Times

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

The bears lived in a treehouse surrounded by innovative systems of rigs and pulleys.

From Salon

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