walking line

noun

1. a line on the plan of a curving staircase on which all treads are of a uniform width and that is considered to be the ordinary path taken by persons on the stair.

Example Sentences

At the heart of “Indra’s Net” is “Anthem,” a slow build that begins with a walking line in the piano, picked up by a flute and eventually every performer, gathering force to glorious beauty.

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The insole is the same insole found in Skechers' walking line.

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During a taut early episode, as hazy chords and piercing orchestral bursts sounded over an obsessively repeated walking line in the low strings, the effect was at once alluring and terrifying.

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No Moon At All playfully unfolds as a quiet jostle of notes, and speeds up into elegantly contrapuntal, initially baroque and then jazzily tumbling melodies over Haden's plummy walking line.

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The guardian assured him that they were equal to anything in the walking line.

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