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Example sentences for "burners"

Lexicographically close words:
burly; burn; burne; burned; burner; burneth; burnie; burnies; burnin; burning
  1. Then a little knot of charcoal-burners came down the path, and naturally halted to speak to Buldeo, whose fame as a hunter reached for at least twenty miles round.

  2. The charcoal-burners looked round cautiously, and thanked their stars they had not; but they had no doubt that so brave a man as Buldeo would find him if any one could.

  3. Before lighting the top or oven burners see that the stopcocks are all tight, with no escaping gas.

  4. All burners should be removed if the holes seem clogged and be boiled out in a solution of washing soda, two tablespoonfuls to a gallon of water.

  5. Gas burners must be taken off and boiled in a solution of sal soda once in a while.

  6. A range of the size pictured, with four large burners on the top, will serve for a family of five or six, if the work is well planned.

  7. The top of the stove is removable in sections, and the burners are easily removed when cleaning is necessary.

  8. This success inflamed the wood owners and the charcoal burners and they destroyed Dudley's works.

  9. A similar stove with jets of flame from vapour burners has been used to soften hard asphalt pavement when it is desired to take it up.

  10. The rack and drip pans for broiling must be washed every time they are used; otherwise, the grease left on them will smell and smoke and sometimes catch fire if the oven burners are lighted.

  11. The iron sheet under the top burners needs washing about once in two days, oftener if anything is spilled or boils over into it.

  12. More occasionally the burners should be washed and the holes all made clear with a wire or a broom straw.

  13. The burners of the former type are supplied with cotton wicks which become saturated with kerosene.

  14. Clean the small holes of the burners by using a knitting needle or wire kept for this purpose; or, if the openings in the burners are slots, use a knife to clean them.

  15. It is for this reason that the tank or gasoline container of a stove should never be filled while the burners of the stove are lighted or even hot.

  16. In case there is a pilot- lighter, open the oven door and see that the oven burners are turned off before lighting the pilot.

  17. The top burners of some gas ranges have a fireless cooker attachment in the form of an insulated hood.

  18. The method of lighting oven burners varies in different ranges, and for this reason it is impossible to give directions for lighting which will apply to all oven burners.

  19. It is especially necessary to keep kerosene burners clean.

  20. In other types of so-called wickless stoves, the burners are equipped with asbestos or other incombustible material.

  21. It is well to keep the burners and wicks free from charred material, and to renew the latter when they become short.

  22. The ingenious and useful burners of Bunsen and Griffin are so constructed that gas and air mixed in any proportions, or gas alone, may be burnt at pleasure.

  23. Another, but less usual method, originating with Gengembre and Gillard, is to place on the burners which consume the gas small platinum cylinders.

  24. Improvements were made in gas-burners in order to obtain hotter flames into which solid matter could be introduced to obtain bright light.

  25. Various types of burners have appeared which aimed to burn more gas in a given time under a mantle and thereby to increase the output of light.

  26. Gas-burners rob the atmosphere of oxygen and vitiate it with gases, which, however, are harmless if combustion is complete.

  27. This type of lamp has undergone many physical changes, but its principle survives to the present time in the gasolene and kerosene burners hanging on a pole by the side of the street-peddler's stand.

  28. The town of Nantes was lighted by gas-burners using these platinum-gauze mantles, but the mantles were unsuccessful owing to their rapid deterioration.

  29. The burners and mantles used in acetylene lighting are essentially the same as those for other gas-lighting, excepting, of course, that they are especially adapted for it in minor details.

  30. Instead of confining efforts to the carbon content of the gas, solid materials were actually placed in the flame, and in this manner various incandescent burners were developed.

  31. By the latter part of the nineteenth century lighthouses employing incandescent gas-burners were emitting beams of light having luminous intensities as great as several hundred thousand candles.

  32. Under this high-pressure system, mantle-burners yield as high as 500 lumens per cubic foot of gas per hour.

  33. I'll go down and turn off the burners and see about the gas.

  34. Turn off the gas-burners then," said Oswald, ever thoughtful, though he was still in ignorance of the beautiful truth.

  35. Very good,' said Suket Singh; and he beat Madu severely, to the delight of all the charcoal-burners of Kodru.

  36. Men had seen it at Donga Pa across the valley winking and blazing through the night, and said that the charcoal-burners of Kodru were getting drunk.

  37. The object of having this pipe rotate is to bring the burners into an inclined position--shown by the dotted lines in Fig.

  38. The three burners are placed upon a support that can be moved vertically up or down along one of the legs of the incubator.

  39. The flame of the burners is regulated by a bimetallic thermostat.

  40. By screwing the inlet pipe in or out, as required, it can be so adjusted that the diaphragm does not occlude its inner aperture, and consequently the full volume of gas can pass through to the burners below.

  41. With the approach of evening his terrors increased; he rang for a servant and had the gas-burners lighted.

  42. The slender thread of sound from the gas-burners seemed to be changed to low, mournful cries, as of a woman over the dead.

  43. To avoid this, burners have been constructed so that the gas is mixed with the proper proportion of air at the burner tip, to insure perfect combustion.

  44. The burners for acetylene are different from those for other gases.

  45. At the back of the stage a row of argand burners with light green shades, gives the faint and soft touches that fill in the distance.

  46. After a bit the lime burners arrive from the kiln half a mile away, and Tim drives them to Barlow.

  47. He reflects with derision that the lime burners and Katy do not understand what goes on within him.

  48. Prepared as he was by the reports that charcoal-burners had brought to San Nicolas, Don Luis's face expressed his utter astonishment at the extent of the ruin.

  49. The charcoal-burners who drove their burros past the mine every day returned to their greetings either muttered curses or black stares.

  50. Nevertheless, he saw that her eyes were brimming as she led his horse away; and, remembering their black fire on the day that she had ordered the charcoal-burners flogged, he wondered.

  51. The charcoal burners come down like giants out of the mythology of the forest.

  52. The charcoal burners were stationary before the momentary abandon of Howat Penny's temper.

  53. A sudden, lengthening sunlight bathed the open and a sullen group of charcoal burners about Dan Hesa.

  54. Howat Penny had lately seen a new moroseness among the charcoal burners that could only have come from the association of the son of Gilbert Penny and the potential owner of Myrtle Forge with the founderman's daughter.

  55. To see to the gas-burners in the drawing-room.

  56. Mattie had injunctions to see to the drawing-room burners as well; to wait to an hour however late for the Hinchford exit.

  57. These matters about the Charcoal Burners I have related only because it chances that from the Charcoal Burners themselves the real story was gained.

  58. Four or five miles east of the Charcoal Burners lived a Boa Constrictor.

  59. You will always find Charcoal Burners connected with a deep forest story, particularly in the German Medieval Legends.

  60. Why, she had all three gas-burners alight because, having met him that night and seen him watching her, she trembled at the faintest shadow and must see things plainly, lest their dim outlines should appal her fancy by taking his form.

  61. Then she returned, lit all the three gas-burners and turned them full on, before she removed her hat, and definitely settled herself in for the evening.

  62. He had acquired the knowledge of lip reading out of necessity on the power decks of the old chemical burners thirty years before, and while he couldn't hear what Tom had said, he knew what the report was.

  63. Bucked rockets on the old chemical burners as a kid before entering the Academy, eh?


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