Sentences with phrase «a trowel»

The picture shows him squatting next to the «most disappointing toilet» he's ever encountered, steeling himself to gut the excrement - splattered commode with a garden trowel.
A small, lightweight item like a pair of socks, a garden trowel or camera battery shouldn't cost $ 17 to ship.
This is not a gold rush where all you need is a trowel and a pan to find your fortune.
Wesley Trowel «signs for those who uses their intellectuals to accept» Yo, dude, no wonder your religious myth only dominates in third world countries with high birthrates and poor education.
Thus, for example, you have to become familiar with what a trowel is and how it is to be used, as well as mortar, which bricklayers usually call «mud.»
That we hold a trowel this way or spread mortar on tile differently than on brick is justified from attempts to transcend or improve upon limitations of our predecessors.
Netanyahu is holding what appears to be a bloody builder's trowel and the wall's mortar is colored red.
Such passing on may be something as basic as one bricklayer teaching another bricklayer how to hold a trowel in order to spread mortar, or one person taking another through Plato's Meno to understand whether virtue can be taught.
You can not learn to lay brick; you can be taught how to hold a trowel, how to spread mortar, or how to hold a brick.
Spread a layer of mustard over the fish — not too thin a layer but don't lay it on with a trowel either.
After deciding the layout of the peppers, dig a small hole with a trowel slightly larger than the root ball of the seedling.
I killed Japanese Beetles and sometimes even earth worms by accidentally maiming them with a trowel.
He never calls a spade a trowel and dat's why he's my pal on this site, together with the rest of the very few truthful guys on here.
That they did not call a spade a trowel?
Grab your trowel and let's dig in!
Long before warmer weather rolls in, it's time to break out rakes to pick up winter leaves, trowels to dig up last year's annuals and vegetables, and seeds to get early edibles going: peas, radishes, and broccoli.
12 - Green Toys Indoor Gardening Kit — comes with three pots, a tray holder, trowel, three soil discs, and three packs of organic seeds.Made from recycled milk containers.
Being a full - time MP, my regulation issue archaeological trowel sees little action these days.
There were only two of us on the course and clearly my colleague was destined to spend his life in poverty under canvas in the desert, trowel at the ready, whereas I ended up in politics via the City.
An anti-populist idea indeed, no matter how much faux populism Rep. Boehner attempts to trowel on top of the it.
A ceremonial «troweling» launched the next phase of construction at the new MCC downtown campus Tuesday.
The Bronx's Friends of Crotona Park Inc Wins 2015 Golden Trowel Award from NYC's Partnerships for Parks.
Using hand trowels, laser levels and a suction tube to draw disturbed sediment to the surface for screening, the underwater archaeologists found six stone artefacts that had clearly been made by people.
She pulls out a clean trowel and attempts to collect some bottom sediment; in the rapid current, it takes a half dozen tries to fill the small vial she will take back to the DNA laboratory of her adviser, environmental engineer Amy Pruden.
He picks up a trowel and scrapes sediment from a prominent layer near the top.
CBI Polymers, a Hawaii - based manufacturer of decontamination products, has developed another option called DeconGel, which can be sprayed, troweled, or painted onto any surface.
Shelley Bolderson was scraping mud from a trowel one day in an Anglo - Saxon midden in St. Neots, United Kingdom, when she realized she didn't want to be an archaeologist any longer.
Materials • A partner • A trowel or short shovel • Gloves (gardening gloves or winter gloves will do) • One large tray (aluminum trays work well) • One small tray • Two magnifying glasses • Tweezers • Meter stick • Rope • Pencil and paper • Field guide or identification key (optional) Preparation • Locate a nearby public park or forest to conduct the activity.
Because the context is destroyed by digging, interpretation has to begin «at the trowel's edge» — and so Hodder wants a lot of people looking over the shoulder of the person with the trowel.
«It occurred to me that a trowel, a very simple tool that has been used for ages, can actually create nice, smooth surfaces.
Yet not a single automated manufacturing process used trowels,» he says.
The device is similar to rapid prototype machines, which have been used for about 15 years to print out three - dimensional plastic models, but the trowels «allowed a new degree of control on the exterior surfaces,» says Khoshnevis.
Khoshnevis points out that the exterior trowel could be followed by a rolling die that prints a brick, shingle, or clapboard pattern in the wet concrete, while the interior could be painted using ink - jet technology in any color, or even in wallpaper patterns.
Argyilan and her colleagues even found one or two using paintbrushes and trowels.
Khoshnevis, 54, a prolific inventor who emigrated from Iran in 1974 and holds patents in fields ranging from optics to robotics, decided there had to be a better way while troweling plaster cracks in his living room following the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake.
Tschinkel, 62, rests a moment, then picks up a trowel and pokes sand away from one wall of the pit.
Some don't ever pick up a trowel, but use satellite images to search for undiscovered ancient sites.
Standard equipment includes a hammer and chisel, compass, clinometer, binoculars, pointing trowel, sample bags, tape measures, and so on.
Price noted that all healthy African groups had good sources of animal fat, and that the healthiest groups consumed less, not more, of plant foods; Burkitt and Trowel, however, postulate that the increase in Western diseases among Africans is due to a reduced consumption of plant foods containing dietary fiber.
I chose their beautiful shade of blush called Ella Rose and a neutral called Garden Trowel.
Shocked, she can only stand in horror as she is stabbed to death with a trowel by her newly - turned daughter.
The natural look is much more appealing to men than a trowelling of slap.
Certainly the 1924 Olympics as depicted in the film bear very little resemblance to the modern - day Games; you won't find athletes in 2012 using trowels to dig out their starting marks, or passing each other notes of encouragement.
They're all present and laying it on with a trowel, including Rufus Sewell (star of «Dark City») as the architect Urshu — who has the snitty defiance of a young Tony Curtis — and Geoffrey Rush as Set and Horus» grandfather, the sun god Ra, who lives on an orbital platform in space, and spends eternity using his sun - bolt lance to zap a giant black leviathan - worm that wants to eat its way through the planet.
The Christmas tendency to trowel on the schmaltz can make it an endurance test by the time New Year approaches.
That said, Avalanche Software has created a game that doesn't just let you play in the Disney sandbox, but gives you the bucket and trowel to build your own castle in it.
Director Daniel Sackheim, who cut his helming teeth on numerous episodes of The X-Files, somehow manages to generate an air of suspense even if he sometimes too easily falls in the trap of dropping shady «hints» with all the subtlety and grace of a trowel.
The creation is a candle holder that amplifies its light through a polished trowel head.
In anticipation of spring, spread out spring flower bulbs, potting soil, flowerpots, gardening gloves, trowels, and water.
They've troweled away the current vehicle's blockiness.
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