So the divisionlinemen usually report directly to the superintendent of telegraph.
He should not deal directly with operators and linemen any more than a general superintendent under normal conditions should instruct an individual conductor or a chief engineer communicate direct with a section foreman.
He waved the linemen toward the Chambers goal and the grand-stand burst into a peal of triumph.
He succeeded not by any great speed but by his instinct for the opening his linemen made and his almost uncanny ability to keep his feet and burrow for a gain through the worst tangle of human bodies.
For no sooner did the two linemen see them than they rushed for them, much to both lads' surprise.
The result was that Cowan, one of the most powerful, and one of the best linemen that ever stood on a football field, was disqualified.
Lew' seemed to center his attention on us as we always received more 'calls' after each game than the other linemen for doing this, that, or the other thing wrong.
Jim was a classmate of mine whom I first saw on the football field when he and another tackle candidate were engaged in that delicate pastime known to linemen as breaking through.
Warner was one of the greatest linemen that ever played on the Cornell team.
As you know, the linemenare very apt to know only the signals on offense which call for an opening at their particular position.
Two linemen used their hands, which on the offense is illegal, and made a hole through which the Harvard halfback passed and crossed the line for a touchdown amid tremendous cheers from the Harvard contingent.
Now Diney was bright enough, but like most linemen did not know the signals.
Callahan and the linemen were spreading both ways through the timber on the plateau opposite, but the snow made the work extremely difficult, and the short day allowed hardly more than a start.
At first linemen crept along the cables, carrying tow ropes to which flat-bottomed boats were attached.
On the first train to the stricken city from Springfield were fifty linemen and three coaches full of people on a sightseeing tour.
Communication between Phoneton and Dayton, the operator said, was only intermittent, as the only available wire was being used by the linemen in their efforts to restore service.
Adjutant-General Speaks, with a small detachment of troops and a squad of linemen and operators, left Columbus early Wednesday in an effort to reach Dayton.
Bell, complained of his linemen having been impeded by refusal of guardsmen to honor the military passes.
The Governor learned of this and on his orders when the train reached Dayton two soldiers were stationed at each car door and none but linemen were permitted to alight.
No braver services were performed during the flood than those by the telegraph and telephone linemen who made possible the dissemination of news to hundreds of thousands of friends and relatives of Daytonians.
The half-backs are noted more for the strength of their running than for swiftness, and the linemen are models for quick play and sharp following of the ball.
The other linemenfrom Hartford were superior to their opponents, and the backs of both teams were about equal in skill.
The linemen had left by the time Penny reentered the bedroom.
One of the linemen offered to make the call, leaving her free to guide the other four men to the Parker camp.
However, as she hastened in that direction, she observed a truck filled with telephone linemen coming toward her.
Many of the accidents due to wires also occur to linemenand other employees of electric, telephone, or telegraph companies or of electric railway companies in charge of wires or electric outfit.
When the linemen should come out to repair breaks he would find the wire broken.
Breaking from one of the hanging ends of the wire a long piece, I coiled it in shape that linemen carry, and putting it over my neck, I started boldly down the track.
White-uniformed linemen were pushing the steps up to the side of its fat hull as the door slid open and a pert stewardess poked her head out.
If we set up near a power line, there'll be the company linemen coming around.
One evening, as a party of linemen stood on a log at the edge of the deep swift stream debating the best place to ford, a naked Indian rose up before them, giving a savage snarl and brandishing a spear.
The popular opinion was that no such wildman existed, and that the linemen had been seeing things.
The party at the foot of the tree was composed of observers, signal linemen and runners.
Send some linemen that you can trust over the division.
But amongst other things we're looking for good linemen to-night--who forget to make reports.
I can tell you before-hand that he carries a good record on this division, and that he's one of the best linemen we've got.
Played on last year's team and was coaching the linemen today.
Good linemen are always in demand, and this year, at Parkinson, they were more than ever welcome, for graduation had deprived the eleven of several stars since last fall.
Myron corrected these misstatements when Captain Mellen had trotted his warriors out on the field, and some others besides, for Coach Driscoll had sent five substitutes to the fray, four linemen and a back.
A cheer went up from the crowd at the plucky act of the lad, but it was quickly hushed as one of the linemen began to climb the pole, to assist down his comrade who had had such a narrow escape.
There were a number of linemen on the tall poles, and, as the boys looked on, the current was turned into the hundreds of various-hued bulbs, to test them.
Linemen were high up on poles arranging extra wires, and others, below, were passing up the colored bulbs, or pliers, and other tools needed by their mates on the high poles.
One of the linemen on the pole is in danger of being shocked to death.
He strolled leisurely along, looking in store windows, or pausing to observe the linemenstringing the wires.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "linemen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
