camber - use in sentences

Object

  • lintel: On rear of main range can be seen a large blocked arch with cambered lintel, probably a doorway to the original barn.
  • sole: A cambered sole allows the club to glide through even the thickest of grass.
  • head: In the right hand bay a renewed casement cuts across the cambered head of a former single light.

Converse of object

  • have: Like the Roman roads, Telford's road also had a marked camber to improve drainage with water running into channels.
  • change: Confidence to use that power on a slippery surface infested with changing cambers is the key to success here.
  • adjust: Sometimes the manufacturers will also adjust the camber in relation to the stiffness of the snowboard's longitudinal flex.

Adjective modifier

  • adverse: The UK has a sign warning of " Adverse camber " on a curve.
  • negative: The more the car is lowered, the greater the negative camber that is introduced.
  • positive: It would appear that your car has positive camber on the rear which is lethal.
  • off: Well bumpy and testing for sure before we shot out of the exit and along the first of many an off camber.
  • rear: The same principle is applied to the rear camber.

Modifies a noun

  • angle: The difference in rear camber angles do not add up.
  • section: After seeing two riders ahead of her along the off camber section she put the hammer down.
  • change: Thruxton is an incredibly long bumpy track, characterized by large bumps and camber changes at all sorts of inconvenient places.
  • bed: Michael Jones: The camber beds shed water, but is there any information as to what happens to the water?
  • line: Any shape of section or camber line, both of which may vary spanwise, can be treated.

Modifying Another Word

  • slightly: The most durable paths are slightly cambered to aid rain runoff.
  • steeply: It is about 13 ft. 6 ins. wide and, as you say is very steeply cambered.

Noun used with modifier

  • wheel: They are made with a camber adjuster so the wheel camber can be accurately adjusted once the trike is on its ' wheels.

Preposition: of

  • road: One resident had expressed concern that the works had changed the camber of the road causing water to accumulate outside his property.

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