Onu aradım, ancak hat meşguldü.
- I called her, but the line was busy.
Tom'un grev hattını geçecek cesareti olduğundan şüpheliyim.
- I doubt that Tom has the courage to cross the picket line.
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.
O kuyrukta otuz dakika durdum.
- I stood in that line for thirty minutes.
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.