Eve girmeden önce, hırsız telefon hatlarını kesmiş.
- The thief cut the telephone lines before breaking into the house.
Onu aradım, ancak hat meşguldü.
- I called her, but the line was busy.
Tom kağıda düz bir çizgi çizdi.
- Tom drew a straight line on the paper.
Zamana bağlı bir toplumda zaman lineer olarak görülür-yani geçmişten şimdiki zamana ve geleceğe doğru uzanan düz bir çizgi olarak.
- In a time-bound society time is seen as linear- in other words as a straight line extending from the past, through the present, to the future.
Tom bir saat kuyrukta bekledi.
- Tom stood in line for an hour.
Tom kuyruktaki son kişi.
- Tom is the last person in line.
Pliny states that the inhabitants of India take pleasure in having their dog bitches lined by the wild tigers, and to facilitate this union, they are in the habit of tieing them when in heat out in the woods, so that the male tigers may visit them.