How to Use pulley in a Sentence

pulley

noun
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  • Run the 10-foot piece of rope through the block (wheel) of the pulley.
    — Rachelle Doorley, Parents, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Sailors hacked at debris with an ax, crowbars and a pulley to free the two men.
    — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The crown block has a pulley system and is located at the top of the derrick.
    — Dallas News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Every crankshaft has a pulley, which is held on by a bolt on the front of the engine.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2019
  • With the halo, Justin would have to stay attached to the weight-pulley system for hours.
    — Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Place food in a tray, and the coatimundi will pull it up with a rope and pulley.
    — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • Aldrin climbs into the LM and hauls up both rock boxes with a small pulley.
    — James R. Berry, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2019
  • There’s a pulley lift system for opening the 6.5-foot-wide canopy, which is made from polyester and has a small wind vent at the apex.
    — Rachel Klein, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2022
  • For a middler, a shirt with its own pulley system is the wardrobe in the drama of celebrity.
    — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 10 Aug. 2017
  • Grabbing a few from the trunk, the Mariner (Mr. Evett) raises them with ropes and pulleys before the upstage wall.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2017
  • To keep the floor clear, install a pulley system to hang bikes from ceiling joints.
    — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The fire department’s heavy rescue team cut some of the pipe and used a pulley system to drag the man out, Davies said.
    — Fox News, 26 Dec. 2019
  • Rodriguez, the ace of the staff, has a ruptured pulley in his left index finger.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 3 June 2023
  • One of the team members sketched plans for their pulley-like contraption in black ink.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 July 2021
  • The canopy's vented top prevents swaying caused by wind, and the pulley system makes this easy to open and close.
    — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Chip had built a pulley system, so the couple could raise and lower the staircase.
    — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The cable is several feet off the ground and a pulley with a tie chain attaches to it.
    — Sian Babish, chicagotribune.com, 22 Jan. 2021
  • Simply place the platter on the spindle and pull the belt out slightly at the top corner to pull it over the motor pulley.
    — Brad Moon, Forbes, 7 May 2022
  • As Bailey steers past a buoy, Werder uses a wooden rod to hook the line connecting the buoy to the crab pot and slings it over the pulley.
    — Julia Rosen, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Our entire design is built by the same methodologies as the way a boat was built, with all of the lap joints, the pegs, the fasteners, the pulleys.
    — Devin Alessio, ELLE Decor, 11 June 2016
  • Skaters are clipped into the harness, which is attached to a rope that’s hung from the ceiling in a pulley system.
    — Jenny McCoy, SELF, 9 Feb. 2018
  • When the last minute of the year arrived, the workers lowered the ball down using a complex pulley system.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Crews used a rope and pulley to bring Levin’s body out of the gulley, and transported it to a Grants Pass funeral home.
    — oregonlive, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Along with pulleys and levers and screws, gears are one of the most basic building blocks of even the most complex mechanisms.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 11 Jan. 2016
  • Two boys scaled a 30-foot rock wall as a pulley system ensured a safe ascent.
    — Caroline Tien, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The upper-body frames use a system of springs, cables and pulleys to transfer weight from the arms to the outside of the hips, easing the strain of overhead work.
    — Leigh Kamping-Carder, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2019
  • Along the walls were wooden exercise bars to which were attached rows of pulley weights.
    — Fay Vincent, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Stand with your back to a machine with a pulley (like a lat pulldown or mixed cable machine).
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 3 Feb. 2020
  • But then, the troops began to spot telltale signs, like pulley systems next to buildings.
    — Justin Scheck, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • He could be seen using the pulley to hop from side to side in a deep squat, before switching to doing a few sets of pull-ups with the pulley.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 6 May 2023

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