The pole-end moved, disappeared, reappeared between the rungs of the ladder.
He shoved the ladder forward so that two rungs projected over the edge of the bench.
Algernon has thrust his head far out between the rungs of his chair-back, and affects to be unable to withdraw it again, making movements of simulated suffocation.
Just below him, Don Winslow gripped the narrow rungs and gasped for breath.
In the darkness, its slender rungs offered tricky footing, but the two Navy men made short work of the descent.
The framework of the new chimney was of four upright poles, set in one corner of the shanty, and laced across by rungs of wood, round which the clay was well kneaded, and plastered inside.
The caretaker's wife had barely time to cross herself, and follow her example, when she was on her feet again, and her feet were on the lowest rungs of the ladder.
And Sister Ursula climbed in agony of spirit, the heelless black cloth shoes that nuns wear slipping on the rungs of the ladder, and all earth reeling a hundred thousand feet below.
The rungs were chafing her hands, and the minutes were flying.
But the knowledge that her lover was near, the touch of his hand guiding her feet on to the rungs of the ladder, sustained her.
He hitched up the lower rungs of the ladder until they were six feet from the level, and then crept noiselessly, close to the rock, for some forty yards.
By this time she could splice a rope more neatly than her tutor, and her particular business was to prepare no less than sixty rungs for the rope-ladder.
Away go the firemen up the rungs of the ladder, and amid continued cheers, and cries, and great excitement approach the sufferers in their peril.
Just let them dare try to stay away, after he had so kindly destined them to be the rungs of the ladder on which he expected to climb to his lady's window--and her father's pocket!
All other rungs in the ladder of success are easier to find and to fit.
Then Herb, who was the stronger of the two, ran up the rungsuntil he was directly opposite his comrade.
By this time several of the rungs were on fire, and two or three broke as Bob stepped on them, but he managed to keep his hold, and, reaching the ground, looked up to see Jack half way down.
Lotze has rightly called attention to the fact that in mounting a ladder with elastic rungs one perceives clearly the points at which the rungs are fastened to the sides.
As three rungs of a spiritual ladder they point to a fourth, which represents that particular power in man by which he distinguishes himself from all other beings in nature.
Fortunately ships are designed so that you can get through doors even when they are in the ceiling; actually here I have to climb up an overhang, but the surface is provided with rungs which make it not too bad.
I point the thing up towards the trap door and give it a gentle push; then I scramble up the rungs and get there just in time to guide it through.
Mistakes are the rungs of the ladder by which we reach the skies.
Antoninus could scale the ladder up the tall cedar, three rungs at a time, and come down hand over hand without putting his foot on a rest.
And inside the open chest he saw the upper rungs of a narrow descending ladder.
Landladies are ladder-rungs of progress, too; Kedzie's history might have been traced by hers.
Somewhere above the fire-escape rungsshe could see the bottom of its cage.
He did not wait for the hot rungs this time; but, grasping the sides of the iron ladder, shoes on the outside pressed tight against the uprights, he dropped out of sight of the charging platform like a stone.
I dunno," I said, and went back to kicking the rungs of the chair.
The upper rungs are worn by the futile grasp of the too ambitious; the lower ones are neglected.
A year or two more in some good company would have been of inestimable advantage to her, but the lower rungs of the ladder are not in great demand to-day.
The result must have been as much of a surprise to him as it was to our hero; for the latter's feet slipped, his soft, felt soles failing to grip the rungs of the ladder, and at once both were precipitated to the bottom.
Finish off every notch as neatly as possible, so that therungs may make close contact and keep water out.
Before marking them for the rungs it is important that they shall be so arranged that both incline equally towards a centre line.
When the paint has dried, lay the sides out as before, and nail on the rungs with 3-inch nails.
A ladder of this kind is given a more presentable appearance if the rungs are let in square to the sides and flush, but at the sacrifice either of strength or lightness, unless narrow rungs of a hard wood, such as oak, be used.
A piece of the wood to be used for making the rungs of is laid up to the pairs of marks in turn, and lines are drawn on both sides of it.
The other rungs are treated in the same manner, and the sides are then separated, for the inside top corner and both back corners, which will be handled most, to be well rounded off and rubbed smooth with glass paper.
She went through social strata and showed the poet that this step would raise him many rungs higher in the ladder.
Throw the rope over a couple of rungs of the ladder, Max.
The two erstwhile chums swung over the rungs of the horizontally laid ladder, like the famous Kilkenny cats, punched and kicked and batted at each other in a most ridiculous manner.
It could only be approached by way of the rungs of iron embedded in the granite, and every wave, even in the comparative moderation caused by the obstructing wreck, swept at least twenty feet of the smooth stone tiers.
Each wave, as it struck to westward of the column, divided itself into two roaring streams which met exactly where the iron rungs ran down the wall.
He would spring for the ladder, run up if possible, but, if caught by a vaulting breaker, lock himself with hands and feet on the iron rungs and endeavor to withstand the stifling embrace of the oncoming sea.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rungs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
