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Example sentences for "fulcrum"

Lexicographically close words:
fuisset; fuit; fuite; ful; fulano; fule; fules; fulfil; fulfild; fulfill
  1. The lower side of the hub-band forms a fulcrum to pry the pin up through the hole in the upper side of the sand-band projection.

  2. This post is the fulcrum support of the walking-beam.

  3. The entrance of the two barbs of a bee's sting by alternate motion, "the teeth of one barb acting as a fulcrum for the other," must be something like the serpent motion on a small scale.

  4. Once allow them to get a fulcrum and they would move the world.

  5. A flat plank was next laid behind the stone on the ground, on which a fulcrum was to be placed, in order to get what is termed by workmen a "purchase.

  6. Considered as a lever, the fulcrum is at the common axis, while the arms of the lever are the radii of the wheel and of the axle.

  7. If I should place the fulcrum B so that it would be in the middle between the ends A C, there would be what is termed an equilibrium between the weight and the power, and if they are equal there will be a perfect balance maintained.

  8. The two portions, A and B, are held together by a rod in a similar manner to the square kites, and the cord or fulcrum is fastened to the rod at R.

  9. Rule: The power required is to the weight as the distance of the weight from the fulcrum is to the distance of the power from the fulcrum.

  10. The fulcrum is the fixed point on which the lever rests when in use.

  11. The weight thrown on the lever by the man at O, raises the stone so that it can be blocked up, the lever and fulcrum arranged for another lift, and the process repeated.

  12. In any form of lever there are only three things to be considered: the point where the weight rests, the point where the force acts, and the point called the fulcrum about which the rod rotates.

  13. The distance from the force to the fulcrum is called the force arm.

  14. If the load is halfway from the fulcrum to the man's hands, the man will have to lift with a force equal to one half the load.

  15. For example, the fulcrum is sometimes at one end, the force at the opposite end, and the weight to be lifted between them.

  16. If the load is one fourth as far from the fulcrum as the man's hands, he will need to lift with a force only one fourth as great as that of the load.

  17. The fulcrum is at the wheel, the force is at the handles, the weight is on the wheelbarrow.

  18. Sex is the fulcrum upon which our life-activities turn.

  19. The scientific mystic, like Archimedes, believes that in order to measure the purpose of external creation, he must "base his fulcrum somewhere beyond.

  20. We'll have to build up his fulcrum again, before we can do anything ourselves.

  21. Here's the heap of stone he used as a fulcrum for his lever.

  22. The time had arrived for making the interior of France the fulcrum of the counter-revolutionary movement.

  23. The love of truth in the abstract is probably the weakest of human passions; but truth when attained ultimately gives the fulcrum for a reconstruction of the world.

  24. The political purpose became dominant, although we always see that the legal abuses are uppermost in his mind; and that what he really seeks is a fulcrum for the machinery which is to overthrow Lord Eldon.

  25. But the leaping-horn holds down the left knee, and makes it a fulcrum to keep the right knee down in its proper place.

  26. Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

  27. Like Archimedes, I have found the fulcrum by whose aid I may move the world--the moral world--and that fulcrum is Plymouth Rock.

  28. Rome was for them the fulcrum of a lever which set the habitable globe in movement at their touch.

  29. Credulity and appetite supply the fulcrum needed by unscrupulous intelligence.

  30. It remained for the South of Italy to complete the work, and to supply the fulcrum needed for the first true effort of modern science.

  31. Remove the bolt nuts I allowing the fulcrum plates R to be taken off.

  32. On the separable hub pattern the clamping bolts must be taken out before fulcrum plate is removed.

  33. In addition to these, O stands for the fulcrum on which it turns.

  34. In the movable pulley, the fulcrum (see Fig.

  35. Note: two arrangements of weight, fulcrum and effort are possible.

  36. He is credited with having summed up his estimate of the capabilities of the lever with the well-known expression, "Give me a fulcrum on which to rest or a place on which to stand, and I will move the earth.

  37. From all his studies and experiments he finally formulated the principle that "bodies will be in equilibrio when their distance from the fulcrum or point of support is inversely as their weight.

  38. For if the lever be employed in like manner, the action in separating two moveable bodies will be just double that of its ordinary action where the fulcrum is absolutely fixed.

  39. This fulcrum rests on a firm and heavy wooden stand, G H.

  40. The summit of the tripod becomes the fulcrum of a lever of the first order which is able to balance freely in a vertical plane.

  41. You have heard of Archimedes, William--the man who said he could make a lever big enough to move the world, if he could only get a fulcrum to rest it on.

  42. France was to heave away at the old British empire as soon as she had found a fulcrum on which to rest her lever.

  43. What a fulcrum Agamenticus would have made for the lever of Archimedes!

  44. The weighing platform rests upon knife edges carried by primary levers of the weighing apparatus, the fulcrum being on the bed of the machine, and any pressure upon it is directly transmitted through a series of levers to the weighing beam.

  45. Michelet showed in La Sorcière, from which this extract is taken, as well as in many other writings, that he fully understood the fulcrum of priestcraft and the secret of superstition.

  46. He is one of the helpless, docile, unquestioning millions, who keep the world in a state of stagnation, and serve as a fulcrum for the lever of despotism.

  47. Upon what fulcrum rests the knife-edge of alteration?

  48. Fur the first time in his life he was possessed with a good longing--namely, for his son; a fulcrum was at length established which might support leverage for his uplifting.

  49. In all these cases power is gained in proportion as the distance from the fulcrum to the power, or part where the men apply their strength, is greater than the distance from the fulcrum to that end under the stone or weight.

  50. In the third kind of lever, the fulcrum is again at one of the extremities, the weight or resistance at the other; and it is now the power which is applied between the fulcrum and resistance.

  51. In the lever of the second kind, the resistance or weight is between the fulcrum and the power.

  52. That portion of it which is contained between the fulcrum and the power, is called the acting part or arm of the lever; and that part which is between the fulcrum and resistance, its resisting part or arm.

  53. In the lever of the first kind, the fulcrum is placed between the power and the resistance.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fulcrum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advocate; arbor; arm; axis; back; backbone; backing; bandeau; bearer; bearing; brace; bracer; bracket; buttress; cane; carrier; cervix; corset; crook; crutch; fulcrum; girdle; gudgeon; guy; hinge; hub; mainstay; mast; nave; neck; pin; pintle; pith; pivot; pole; prop; radiant; reinforcement; rest; rigging; shoulder; shroud; spindle; spine; staff; stave; stay; stick; strengthener; support; supporter; sustainer; swivel; upholder