wire pulling
Example Sentences
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The force on the picture is straight down to the floor, but the force on the toothpick is both the picture wire pulling down and the bottom of the hole in the wall pushing up.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
They took the last fence, Shaun Goilin still behind, Sir Lindsay starting for the wire, pulling up even with Melleray's Belle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Laramie'll follow that wire pulling for years but what he'll get the man that did it.
From Laramie Holds the Range by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman
Let this nomination be thus presented, without any wire pulling or depreciation of others and as a conviction upon established facts, and I believe Governor Hayes can be and ought to be nominated.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman
A little discreet wire pulling and Esther was once more established as school mistress of District Number Fifteen.
From Up the Hill and Over by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
