‘the metal grids had been pulled across the foyer’

‘Metal exclusion grids and escape hatches are now in use in prawn fisheries around the world to stop bigger fish being wastefully killed.’

‘The grid of longitude and latitude looks the same from either the ‘top’ or the ‘bottom’ of the world.’

‘Essential tools include a bird identification field guide, a map of the airfield with a superimposed grid system for locating birds, and a pair of binoculars.’

‘the reactor was connected to the grid in 1985’

‘Yet the pumps all seem to have worked off the regular electrical grid with little or no local backup power.’

‘a grid of tree-lined streets’

‘Beyond the close, cleared about 1800, is a bustling city, still occupying the grid of streets laid out by the bishop's planners almost 800 years ago.’

‘The grid will initially link the mammogram databases of several hospitals in the UK, with the potential to include all 92 screening centres in the UK.’

‘This grid links powerful computers in California, Texas, the Midwest and Pennsylvania.’

‘the 20-year-old didn't get the best of starts off the grid’

‘The drizzle had long since disappeared by the time Class 1 cars had settled themselves on the grid and the track remained completely dry throughout the night.’

‘Oscillating electric fields applied by grids above and below the plasma can resonantly excite its electrons.’

‘The carbon-platinum replicas were transferred from a finishing water bath onto copper electron microscope grids.’

‘a core of gridded streets’

‘Some wreckage which couldn't be identified was spotted in the vicinity, after the co-ordinates they'd been given the evening before had been reached and gridded.’