Example sentences for: rod

How can you use “rod” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Rod Cross, a tennis-obsessed Australian physicist, went to the lab to figure out the science behind Pete Sampras' power serve.

  • (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). However, quite a few softies like it: "Lewis and Ribisi eventually win you over" (Turan, the Los Angeles Times ); "by the storybook conclusion I was cheering them on, against all critical instinct" (Rod Dreher, the New York Post ). Stephen Holden of the New York Times opens his review with what sounds like a joke ("A beautifully acted love story") but isn't; he's the film's biggest fan.

  • The three standard lines of analysis were: 1) The first lady would try to tug her husband back to the perilous left; 2) The president and his aides don't want her to take a public role, because she'll become a lightning rod; and 3) Republicans are secretly rooting for her to take a public role, for both the above reasons.

  • There were few mornings when Mary did not look up, as she bent to lace her boots, and as she followed the yellow rod from curtain to breakfasttable she usually breathed some sigh of thankfulness that her life provided her with such moments of pure enjoyment.

  • Subjects completed the Spielberger Anger Expression Scale [ 31 ] , as well as measures of lifestyle and environmental stress, including television viewing, before and after the 4 month intervention period [ 32 ] . A Detecto CN220 scale with height rod (Cardinal Scale Manufacturing Corp, Webb City, MO) was used to measure the height and weight according to standard protocol [ 33 ] .


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