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Example sentences for "breadths"

Lexicographically close words:
breadfruit; breadless; breads; breadstuffs; breadth; breadwinner; breadwinners; break; breakage; breakages
  1. Now and then they were divided by rows of trees standing breathless in the heat, or breadths of apple orchards, some with fruits ruby red, some with fruits as yet green as their foliage.

  2. We crossed six broad and sluggish streams, with breadths of mud coloured red by iron; banked by dense nurseries of Raphia Palm and rattan.

  3. These seven breadths of skirt flew out in advance of us, if they did not lift themselves over our heads.

  4. Breadths of cream-white satin, of a thickness and softness almost unknown in the present day, were stretched in Chippendale embroidery frames, and loops and garlands of flowers of every shape and hue were embroidered upon them.

  5. That is a very remarkable pretty-behaved young man," said Miss Trixie, when we all picked up our breadths of waterproof, and got in behind them again.

  6. The breadths should be basted before stitching.

  7. Put two rows of stitching where the breadths lap.

  8. The harvest-moon was rising over breadths of corn in grant to them, and sheep and cattle tended by their villeins, once the owners.

  9. In other places there were breadths of shadow, wavering, jumping, and flickering.

  10. But then there are two extra breadths and enough for a high waist!

  11. Why, Adolphe, thinking of extra breadths and of a waist to make the dress good again, when it is no longer fit to be worn low in the neck.

  12. No girl could help grasping at it eagerly, and while Blanche studied the part, she, the mother, would baste up some breadths of satin she had by her into a court dress.

  13. His silvery tail provided hundreds of horse-hair rings--and his habit of gathering very small people up by their back breadths and carrying them a little way before dropping them, only filled the air with wild shrieks of laughter.

  14. And the breadth of the ark was seven hand-breadths and a half.

  15. Take from them twelve hand-breadths for the breadth of the tables, and a finger-breadth on either side for the thickness of the ark.

  16. If from the ground upwards they be ten hand-breadths high?

  17. Take from them twelve hand-breadths for the breadth of the tables, and two hand-breadths for the place where the roll of the Law lay, and half a hand-breadth from either side for the thickness of the ark.

  18. If the covering be three hand-breadths above the side walls?

  19. He packed the coals on the pavement three hand-breadths distant from the ascent, at the place where they put the crops of the fowls, and the ashes of the inner altar, and of the candlestick.

  20. It extended over two hand-breadths and a half on either side.

  21. GrĂ´m stood staring for a long time, with wide, brooding eyes, at the still-bubbling and heaving breadths of dark pitch.

  22. The giant white and the woolly rhinoceros had arrived by the score in the dense thickets of the steaming savannah which unrolled its green-and-yellow breadths along the southward base of the downs.

  23. Again, breadths of citron and lemon, followed by extensive rice farms, where the cultivators stood dressing the unripe plantations, up to their ankles in the water of a feathery green swamp.

  24. In its breadths of sun-bathed plain and orange-mantled slope the ancients placed their Elysian Fields.

  25. Among them the Gramineae family predominates, and, without attaining the proportions and the quality of the herbs which we shall meet with in the interior, form breadths of meadow very charming in their rare fresh greenness.

  26. The slopes are clothed with an exceedingly rich and beautiful flora, and far up to the very snow-line extend magnificent breadths of forest foliage.

  27. Breadths sewed together for Roof and Side Walls of Tent.

  28. The breadths were then sewed together, and the ends turned up and hemmed to make a piece 17 feet long and 4 feet 9 inches wide.

  29. Now and then we ran by a stony old town on a distant summit like the outcropping of granite or marble, and there were frequent breadths of woodland, oak and pine and, I dare say, walnut and chestnut.

  30. They still make but a poor show there beside the treasures of Herculaneum, where the excavation of a few streets and houses has yielded costlier and lovelier things than all the lengths and breadths of Pompeii.

  31. If the party is of four, or even five, a shelter-tent made of three breadths of heavy drilling will accommodate all.

  32. The three breadths that make the sides or roof are cut all alike; their length is found by measuring the plan from corner to corner over the top; in the plan now under consideration, the distance will be nearly sixteen feet.

  33. If the cloth is drilling or light duck, you can overlap the centre breadths a foot, and thus have the doors ready-made.

  34. I have never seen a "shelter" made of three breadths of drilling (seven feet three inches long), but I should think it would be a good thing for four or five men to take.

  35. When you sew them, overlap the breadths 3/4 of an inch the same as you do the end-breadths.

  36. Draw a plan upon the floor as in the other case; the pole nine feet and two inches high, the corners four breadths apart less the overlappings and the narrowing; draw the wall (in the plan only) four feet and two inches high.

  37. It is four breadths square, but the width is usually diminished about one foot by cutting six inches from each corner breadth.

  38. She had become aware of the fact that she had something to think about, and she hoped that half an hour on the green shorn breadths of grass with the river at her feet and the whisper of the weir in her ears would be a relief to her.

  39. The remaining breadths of plaster bore countless round marks on its surface, suggesting that some man had designed a new and curious scheme of decoration, but had failed to realise his aims.

  40. Silk dresses will last much longer, by ripping out the sleeves when thin, and changing the arms and also the breadths of the skirt.

  41. This is a much easier way of cutting than sewing the three breadths together in bag fashion, as is often done.

  42. The other two breadths are to have a gore cut off from each, which is one fourth wide at the top and two fourths at bottom.

  43. In cutting chemises, if the cotton or linen is a yard wide, cut off small half-gores at the top of the breadths and set them on the bottom.

  44. Two breadths are sufficient for a full sized shift, and gores are cut off a given width at the bottom, and extending to a point, in order to widen the garment.

  45. The jackets are made of two breadths, and as it is desirable not to have a seam in the shoulder, the two breadths should be cut in one length, and carefully doubled in the middle.

  46. Take two breadths of any material you choose, dividing one of them in the middle.

  47. The collar, and the wristbands, are made to fit the neck and wrists, and the breadths are so various, that no general rule can be given.

  48. The length of the petticoat is regulated by the height of the person for whom it is intended; and the width ranges from three breadths to one and a-half.

  49. They should have three or three and a-half breadths of the material in the width, and the bottom is made with a broad hem three nails deep, or with tucks or worked muslin.

  50. For a close pinafore, two breadths of Holland, or other material, will be required.


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