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Example sentences for "adhesive"

Lexicographically close words:
adherents; adheres; adhering; adhesion; adhesions; adhesiveness; adhesives; adhuc; adiabatic; adiacent
  1. In the second year of his contract, a rumor was spread, that the adhesive matter on the postage stamps was a deleterious substance, made of the refuse of fish, and other disgusting materials.

  2. When penny postage came into operation, it was at first doubtful whether adhesive labels could be made sufficiently good and low-priced, which would not have been the case with gum-arabic.

  3. If it is necessary to move him, bandage strips of adhesive plaster around the body, beginning at the lowest rib and working upward, having each strip lap over the one below it.

  4. The only legitimate uses for sticking or adhesive plaster are to hold dressings in place where bandaging is difficult, or in case of a cut to keep edges closed without sewing the skin.

  5. If you have no adhesive plaster, use a wide strip of cotton cloth.

  6. Transcriber's Footnote 1: Cloth coated with adhesive substance to cover cuts or scratches on the skin.

  7. We must suppose a Medusa to be turned hollow upwards, and an adhesive foot to be produced from what was before the summit of its “umbrella;” and little more is necessary to constitute a Lucernaria.

  8. Réaumur found that a weight of twenty-eight or thirty pounds was required to overcome this adhesive force.

  9. This is a family of small, marine, littoral fishes provided with a ventral disc, or adhesive apparatus.

  10. The gum from this tree forms good adhesive mucilage.

  11. The myall and mimosa also exude gum; these the natives prefer before all other kinds when obtainable, they being less brittle and more adhesive than any of the others.

  12. The possibility of the complete removal of the dead mass is thus at hand, and an eventual obliteration of the resulting cavity may take place by an adhesive inflammation of its walls.

  13. Care must be taken that the well eye shall not get infected; for that purpose it is best to cover it {713} with lint and collodion, or with lint or cotton held in place by adhesive plaster.

  14. In the stamp for letter paper and the adhesive stamp, a profile of the Queen is the principal ornament.

  15. If the bleeding is not profuse, apply cold water until it ceases, dry the skin, draw the edges of the wound together, and secure them by strips of adhesive plaster.

  16. Jerry found that he still had the roll of adhesive tape in his pocket, undiscovered in Bull’s quick inspection.

  17. He quickly undid the adhesive tape, then stuck the gun in his belt.

  18. An adhesive marginal organ of the Lucernariae.

  19. Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.

  20. Glued together; united, as by some adhesive substance.

  21. I have referred to the sticky and adhesive character of the compounds called lime soaps, formed in hard waters.

  22. Imagine a slip, a false step on the part of the two adhesive feet; the unfortunate creature will immediately lose her footing, dragged by the elasticity of the snout, which she was forced to bend somewhat at the beginning.

  23. Shod with adhesive sandals which later on, in my laboratory, will allow it rapidly to climb a vertical sheet of glass, the elephant-beetle is solidly established on the smooth, steep curvature of the acorn.

  24. On the warty cup progression is easy; over the rest of the surface it would be impossible, were not the soles of her feet shod with adhesive pads, which enable her to retain her hold in any position.

  25. Each countenance was blue, and decorated with long flat locks of adhesive hair.

  26. Standing under the hatch, guided by the ladder to the position, and with a strong swinging, upward blow, the new tool is driven into the soft, fibrous and adhesive pine bottom of the box.

  27. When the swelling has disappeared and the pain is gone, it is desirable to have the joint supported with strips of adhesive bandage.

  28. If the wound is small, its edges may be drawn together with narrow strips of adhesive bandage after it has been painted with iodine.

  29. To accomplish this the windows must be tightly closed, the doors locked, and the cracks and keyhole sealed with pieces of paper or adhesive paper.

  30. The area of introduction can be exactly circumscribed by cutting a hole in a sheet of adhesive plaster which is applied to the skin and on which the electrolytic electrodes are pressed.

  31. Emery-sticks, emery-cloth and emery-paper are made by coating the several materials with powdered emery mixed with glue, or other adhesive media.

  32. When a thief comes into a store he sometimes carries a piece of adhesive gum like that," he explained to the policeman.

  33. When tenderness and heat subside, strap with adhesive plaster in overlapping strips.

  34. It is held in place by strips of surgeon's adhesive plaster, about two inches wide, passed around the whole circumference of the limb above and below the knee joint, and covered with bandage.

  35. This pad is kept in place by a strip of surgeon's adhesive plaster, or bandage passing through the small end of the wedge, and brought up and fastened over the shoulder.

  36. The splint may be removed in two weeks and a strip of adhesive plaster wound about the finger to support it for a week or two more.

  37. Note splint extending from wrist to tip of finger; also manner of applying adhesive plaster strips and pad in palm.

  38. This cut shows the position and length of the two padded splints; also method of applying adhesive plaster.

  39. The splint is attached to the limb by straps of adhesive plaster two inches and a half wide; one around the lower end of the splint, one around the upper part, and the third placed just below the knee.

  40. See manner of holding arm and applying adhesive plaster strips; one splint is shown, another is placed back of hand and forearm.

  41. Beginning now five inches below the joint, strips of surgeon's adhesive plaster, an inch wide and long enough to more than encircle the limb, are affixed about the leg firmly like garters so as to make considerable pressure.

  42. Any existing displacement of the broken bone can be relieved by using pressure with little pads of cotton held in place by narrow strips of adhesive plaster where it is needed to keep the bone in line.

  43. The splints are bound together and to the forearm by three strips of surgeon's adhesive plaster or bandage, about two inches wide.

  44. I stood affixing the adhesive stamp to my telegram.

  45. The adhesive stamp customary in those days was defaced by a circular postmark, which bore the name of the office of departure and the date.

  46. An extremely adhesive viscid substance, usually made of the middle bark of the holly, by boiling, fermenting, and cleansing it.

  47. The power in adhesive attraction is strictly the same as that of cohesion.

  48. I am going to shape it, to mould it, restore it to its natural shape as nearly as I can, then secure it there with adhesive plaster.

  49. While the guardian held the nose in place she instructed Harriet Burrell how to place the adhesive plaster, which Harriet did with delicate, skilful fingers.

  50. I thought that perhaps I might be able to straighten your nose, but see that is not best, nor had I better put on any adhesive plaster.

  51. In this case the simple pierced-lint Maltese cross was used, with an adhesive band to hold the tails down behind and around the penis just back of the corona.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adhesive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.