swan-neck

How To Use swan-neck In A Sentence

• On either side of the white marble fireplace were swan-necked gas lamps that still worked. Times, Sunday Times
• The cabinet on offer contains a moulded swan-neck pediment carved with flower heads, between which is a rather impressive carved eagle crest.
• Anthony Buckeridge assembles the real essence of the retired schoolmaster - Panama hat, silver-tipped cane, swan-necked pipe (minus tobacco since a heart attack last year).
• Mr Graville is also recommending that two brass swan-necked lights and two spotlights be removed from the restaurant as they are ‘alien and inappropriate’ to the listed building.
• Somehow, she maintains her elegant composure, straight-backed, swan-necked. Times, Sunday Times
• Onion hoe A small hand version of a swan-necked draw hoe, useful for working between close-set plants and rows.
• The smaller dispensers are called swan-necks and the larger, with domed heads, are called, mushroom dispensers.
• The swan-neck cock made a slight creaking noise as it compressed the mainspring, then there was a click as the pawl took the strain and Hagman hinged the backsight up as high as it would go, then lined its notch with the blade-sight dovetailed at the muzzle. Sharpe's Havoc
• A graceful swan-neck broken pediment crown, spiraling acanthus, tobacco leaves, all of these help to express the character of the Aristocrat collection.
• Somehow, she maintains her elegant composure, straight-backed, swan-necked. Times, Sunday Times