What is "along the lines"

Usage examples of "along the lines".

The splitting crashes swept along the lines until an interminable roar was developed.

It had fractured along the lines of stress where the first Yavac had stepped on the house.

They couldn't promise publication, of course, but would look favorably upon a timely submission along the lines of my overnight emailed proposal.

All the party, except the Princess of Wales, then mounted horses, and rode along the lines, and afterwards retired to a wood-covered knoll at one end to witness the evolutions.

Marshals, standard-bearers, and other officers were ranged at short distances from each other along the lines.

We should, however, remember that it is the tip which is sensitive to the contact of hard objects, causing the radicle to bend away from them, thus guiding it along the lines of least resistance in the soil.

But we had built our Utopia along the lines of a traditional Kikuyu society, that which existed in Kenya before the advent of the Europeans.

And the built-in buffer reduced the recoil to something along the lines of a 9mm carbine.

It looks like they used something along the lines of an EMP to take out their communications.

And then there are the countless types of masks, which, if one likes, can all be interpreted along the lines of your theories.