pulleys
- plural of pulley.
Example Sentences
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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
Living physiology should be explicable in terms of physics, biophysicists argued—forces, motions, actions, motors, engines, levers, pulleys, clasps.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
