Sentences with phrase «live electrical line»

As a teenager, Mach and a friend were involved in a minor automobile accident, but stepping out of the car they stepped on a live electrical line.

Utility poles are a favorite substrate for nests and when those get big enough to bridge the gap between live electrical lines, they short the lines out, sometimes blowing out transformers and turning off the power in whole neighborhoods.

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Locals living on the banks of the Yangtze still use indiscriminate electrical charges in the water and so - called rolling hooks — long lines set with hundreds of hooks that snag fish (and baiji) foraging on the bottom — decades after they were banned by law.

The official line is that if any fish are living north of the electrical barriers on the canal, they are sparse and scattered, too few to reproduce in the Great Lakes.

Drawing a line around the electrical charge of the space gives visual and physical life to this energetic presence.

Parents in those places panicked at the very thought that an object that made so much of modern life possible — an electrical distribution line — was a potential menace to their loved ones.