English vocabulary: Tools & building – 37 words with pictures, audio & printable flashcards

It is a silver key.

Her father was balanced on a ladder with a rivet gun, wearing the same sun-faded work shirt he had owned since 1987.

Finally, three weeks later, two men came to the memorial with tools.

She put a piece of white tape on the floor behind the chair legs.

'You're doing it again,' she said, setting her bag down on the concrete.

But the blue electrical tape bothered her.

Patrick was already at the rail, his face carefully neutral.

He carried a long, thin pole made of wood.

She was walking toward the hardware store to buy more paint.

He stopped at a small brick house.

The rope that should have moved it had been cut away long ago, because nobody needed it.

He climbed off the ladder slowly, the way men do when they want time to organise their thoughts.

'The rigging on the centre arch—I changed the angle this year.

doors, signs, old tiles, that kind of thing

The generator was tested.

Then he picked up a pair of scissors and cut the paper cleanly down the middle.

The city had used primer.

'The rigging on the centre arch—I changed the angle this year.

It is the cornerstone.

The mailbox at 14 Crane Street had a broken latch.

He spoke to her every thirty minutes through a waterproof speaker mounted on the boat's railing.

Four days, twelve hours a day, paint on her fingers and in her hair, scaffolding that swayed if she leaned too far to the right.

Her father was balanced on a ladder with a rivet gun, wearing the same sun-faded work shirt he had owned since 1987.

on the workbench.

Her town is building a new school.

i think it fixed itself.

He spoke to her every thirty minutes through a waterproof speaker mounted on the boat's railing.

The sound system was wired.

The winning club had already negotiated a lucrative sponsorship deal, one that would allow them to rebuild their crumbling ground, strengthen their squad, and compete seriously for the next ten years.

She had come back for her mother's birthday and found the float already half-assembled in the yard.

It is someone's uncle learning to weld so the chassis doesn't shake apart.

yes. no lock.

She was long and narrow, painted green and red.

Workers are taking down the old school.

But he kept building.

Martin pushed the heavy metal bar.

He found an elderly farmer named Alasdair near a dry-stone wall at the foot of the hill.