Sentences with word «fencepost»

Your opening sentence demonstrated that you don't know the difference between «number,» which is used to describe things that can be counted, such as fenceposts and birds, and «amount,» which is used to describe something functionally impossible to count, like water or sand.

Paul Elie writes in the foreword: «Fentress's fencepost proverbs and exhortations are at the side of the road, but they are at the centre of our religious life today, not at the margins.

Then the three dogs did stop and eddy, sniffing in the corner of the street wall and the field fenceposts, moving around the boy, ignoring him.

Escaping from helping the men dig fencepost holes.

The road - ways of the religious are of a «term.in.al.ism» and while agnosticisms and atheisms are as fenceposts, the weeds of the «p.syc.ho - thera.

Some of these we knew were coming, some decisions were balancing on a fencepost, and some people probably weren't thinking about at all, with the exception of fans for those teams.

Jumping spiders, like this fencepost spider (Marpissa muscosa) in the United Kingdom, can leap 30 times their length, powered by hydraulic pumps in their abdomens.

Bill Clinton likes to say, «If you find a turtle on the fencepost, he probably didn't get there by himself.»

This was not a good idea, because it threw my car up against the fencepost wires that separated me from the drop.

Artists can create a library of basic textures and objects this way, allowing them to customize the raw material rather than painstakingly building every costume, fencepost, and machine rivet from scratch.

Ok, so then are you saying that if we follow my rule for picking decades of only allowing years that are multiples of ten when specifying ranges, the last decade warmed almost as fast as the previous one, but if we follow your rule of only allowing years that are congruent to 1 mod 10, per the fencepost error that makes the year 1990 part of the 1980's, then the warming paused during the last decade?

«As a teenager, I was told I could argue with a fencepost.