Line

The arrow descended in a curved line.

St Johnstone's Liam Craig had to clear off the line before Steven Anderson sent a looping header into his own net for the equaliser on 36 minutes.

"I guess it's like race cars - if you get the right line you can come out at top speed."

a brake line

the main water line to the house

the line of sight

the line of vision

In order to maintain a consistency in the defense, I will follow the line established by attorney Jacobs of allowing the prosecution to suggest motives, and then refuting them.

I tried to make a call, but the line was dead.

a dedicated line;  a shared line

Please speak up, the line is very faint.

We need to take the clothes off the line. The news reported a front is coming in from the east, and we can expect heavy rain and maybe hail.

She feels guilty for pampering him, and salves her conscience by bossily ordering him to go and fetch the clothes from the line[.]

Drop me a line.

a line of stages

an express line

Eden stretch'd her Line / From Auran Eastward to the Royal Towrs / Of great Seleucia,

The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

get in line

The line forms on the right.

There is a line of houses.

A band of brothers gathering round me, made, / Although unarmed, a steadfast front[…]now the line / Of war extended, to our rallying cry / As myriads flocked in love and brotherhood to die.

Students and the instructor sing the harmony line while the instructor plays the melody line on the piano.

The answer to the comprehension question can be found in the third line of the accompanying text.

Nay if you read this line, remember not, / The hand that writ it.

He was perfecting his pickup lines for use at the bar.

"It is what it is" was one of his more annoying lines.

Anyone who has worked with Littlewood will wince at the memory of going over single lines time and time again, each actor in turn speaking the line until the valid intonation, phasing and emphasis emerged.

Don't feed me a line!

He [Mackintosh] is uncommonly powerful in his own line; but it is not the line of a first-rate man.

"What you mean, comparing me to them botchers and bunglers? There ain't anybody but me in the furniture restoring line."

Remember, your answers must match the party line.

Judy gave me a line on a lawyer who's supposed to be the best in the business.

She's got the best line on Hickey. Maybe she knows a way to put the heart back into him.

line of business, product line

How many buses does the line have?

The airline is in danger of bankruptcy.

Have nothing to do with snide goods; let it be known throughout the world that the farmers and dairymen, yea, and those engaged in other industries in the great State of Illinois, produce only the best of everything in their lines, and we will be the last to feel the effects of over-production.

Withof estimates that the hair of the beard grows one line (French) in the course of a week, let us call it one line and a half (Engish); this would amount to six inches and a half yearly...

The cut is measured in thickness from a quarter of a line to a line and a half (a line is one-twelfth of an inch).

In case any of the committee do not understand what is meant by a rate per line, I may say that buttons, being very small, are not measured by the foot or inch, but by the line, a line being one-fortieth of an inch. For example, that is a 27-line button[…].

Advertising rates, line contract, less than 500 agate lines, 12 cents per line; 1,000 to 2,000 lines, 7 cents; 5,000 to 10,000 lines, 5 cents.

Thus, for example, in the line of Quarte, the direct thrust is parried by dropping the point under the adversary's blade and circling upwards, throwing off the attack in the opposite line (that of Tierce), and upon the direct thrust in the line of Tierce, by a similar action throwing off the attack in the opposite line (that of Quarte).

the engine is in line / out of line

I watched him take a line of cocaine.

Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.

patient had a line inserted

line sepsis

to line troops

They lined up the books against the wall.

to line works with soldiers

Line and new repair our towns of war With men of courage and with means defendant.

to line a copy book

The dispatcher lined the switches at Pickle interlocking for the freight turnout to clear the train into the passing track before the express arrived.

All the pictures fairest lined Are but black to Rosalind.

to line out a hymn

Jones lined to left in his last at-bat.

maknae line; hyung line; 97 line

to line a cloak with silk or fur

to line a box with paper or tin

The bird lines its nest with soft grass.

Paintings lined the walls of the cavernous dining room.

In the midst stalked the King, his great limbs muffled, like Goldry’s, in a cloak: and it was of black silk lined with black bearskin, and ornamented with crabs worked in diamonds.

to line the shelves

because the charge amounteth mostly very high for any one man's purse, except lined beyond ordinary, to reach unto