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Example sentences for "containers"

Lexicographically close words:
contagium; contain; containe; contained; container; containes; containeth; containing; containment; contains
  1. At hog killing time, huge containers of water were heated in the yard.

  2. Use metal containers also for hot ashes and the daily accumulation of papers and trash.

  3. If you have gas or keep any quantity of kerosene or gasoline, don't examine containers by match or candlelight.

  4. As soon as the physicist and the engineer were settled to the plastic containers of food and coffee she had brought, wolfing them down hungrily, Millie opened up.

  5. Even if the containers were not covered (such as buckets or bathtubs filled with emergency supplies of water), as long as they were indoors it is highly unlikely that fallout particles would get into them.

  6. Unless local authorities advise otherwise, fill buckets, bathtubs and other containers with water, for use in emergency fire fighting.

  7. These should include a garden hose, a ladder, buckets filled with sand, containers filled with water, and a fire extinguisher.

  8. If possible, both containers should be lined with plastic bags.

  9. Practically all of the particles that dropped into open reservoirs, lakes, and streams (or into open containers or wells) would settle to the bottom.

  10. Water stored in covered containers and water in covered wells would not be contaminated after an attack, because the fallout particles could not get into the water.

  11. Unless otherwise advised, fill buckets and other containers with water, for emergency fire fighting as well as other purposes.

  12. Containers Redworms need to breathe oxygen, but in deep containers bedding can pack down and become airless, temporarily preventing the worms from eating the bottom material.

  13. Containers and Other Similar Methods In my days of youthful indiscretions I thought I could improve life on Earth by civilizing high school youth through engendering in them an understanding of history.

  14. Worms can also be kept in plastic containers (like dish pans) with holes punched in the bottom.

  15. I do not buy or make composting containers when a country life style and not conforming to the neatness standards of others makes bins or tumblers unnecessary.

  16. Purchased in garden stores in small containers it is very expensive; bought by the 50-to 80-pound sack from feed stores or farm coops, cottonseed meal and other oil seed meals are quite inexpensive.

  17. It is not advisable to make containers from rot-resistant redwood or cedar because the natural oils that prevent rotting also may be toxic to worms.

  18. Composting containers also have a potential disadvantage-reducing air flow, slowing decomposition, and possibly making the process go anaerobic.

  19. James Watt, as he endeavored to improve the steam engine, before the slide-rest was invented, was sorely vexed and thwarted by the ill-shaped containers for steam which served him as cylinders.

  20. As steam expands to perform work it falls in temperature and much of it condenses as water, with marked loss of efficiency, with harm to its containers by severe hammering.

  21. Similarly, the power of a State to prescribe standard containers to protect buyers from deception as well as to facilitate trading and to preserve the condition of the merchandise is not open to question.

  22. The containers were the same, the ceremonious interchange repeated, only the area staked out covered about four times as much ground as the first.

  23. At the end of thirty minutes the spray was turned off and the containers rolled back into the car.

  24. He opened one of the containers and offered it to Astro.

  25. Tom opened one of the containers of water and dipped his shirttail into it.

  26. Astro grinned sheepishly, and opening one of the containers of food, quickly wolfed down a breakfast of smoked Venusian fatfish.

  27. About nine o'clock the boys stopped and opened one of the containers of food and ate a quick meal of sandwiches.

  28. Astro, bring the rest of the Martian water and you grab several of those containers of food, Roger.

  29. The three bruised but otherwise healthy cadets climbed slowly down to the control deck and headed for the galley, where Tom found six plastic containers of Martian water.

  30. Pulling on his space boots, he turned to Tom and Roger, who were breaking out the last two containers of food.

  31. B; a] for containers to stretch, bulge, and become tight from being too full.

  32. His arms and legs are surrounded by plexiglas containers filled with water and his head is encased in a plexiglas helmet.

  33. On each side of the patient, there are two plastic containers permanently filled with a solution containing a known quantity of calcium.

  34. Remove sample and standard from tubes and place in separate plastic containers to measure gamma rays.

  35. Bark containers were made and filled with spruce gum, and the materials used in making it hard and durable were gathered.

  36. As a matter of fact, we have mighty little except this liquid chlorine and--well, we're having trouble with the steel containers and with the releasing device.

  37. You mean the device that drops the containers from the aeroplanes?

  38. Containers were filled with dozens of strange games and books of instructions in the form of simple drawings.

  39. The only things in the ship that could be lifted and carried about were the containers of food and alien games.

  40. That is, he could work out a scheme for attaching a searchlight to his airship and make better arrangements for a one-man control in releasing the chemical containers into the heart of a big blaze.

  41. I intended to pour it in the new containers I am having made in Newmarket to see if it would corrode them, a thing I wish to avoid.

  42. Can't you drop the bomb containers accurately in a wind?

  43. Then he would turn loose all his other containers of the chemical mixture that had proved so effective in other tests.

  44. They could see the chemicals strike the blaze, and it was evident from the manner in which the fire died down that the containers had broken, as Tom intended they should to scatter their contents.

  45. When I give the word press the levers, and the chemical containers will drop.

  46. Mr. Damon and Ned heaved over the side the metal containers of the powerful chemicals.

  47. Quantities of this combination had been stored in metal containers which Tom had at first styled "bombs," but which he now called "aerial grenades.

  48. These bombs are thin shells of steel or iron--mere containers for the mixture before described.

  49. It is collected and compressed to a liquid form and shipped in containers under pressure for use in chemical works and bleacheries and for the purification of drinking water.

  50. Then Terry burst into view with the containers of chemicals from the surgical lab.

  51. The lock was wheeled close to the bath and a passage was opened as the two containers were brought adjacent.

  52. A clear, transparent preservative liquid surrounded the specimens, and the containers were sealed.

  53. The containers of nuts should be held in cold storage at temperatures of 32° to 36°F.

  54. Next year, we will use metal containers and we are sure that will stop them.

  55. In order to cure chestnuts to best advantage, they should be spread thinly on floors, or on shelves, or in shallow containers as just described, and held in a well-ventilated room.

  56. They should be placed at once on shelves or in curing containers with wooden or metal bottoms through which the larvae of any weevils with which the nuts may be infested cannot penetrate and reach the ground.

  57. These containers are suitable for Radio batteries, since they have a neater appearance than the wooden cases, and are not as likely to damage floors or furnishings because the acid cannot seep through them.

  58. In making up rental batteries, or in replacing old cases, the one-piece containers may be used to advantage.

  59. If Mike overshot the containers he would land in the sea.

  60. Rick worried about the problem of lighting the containers without getting burned, then went to the workshop and selected rags.

  61. The use of closed carbide containers in charging is intended to preclude the introduction of air into the generator, and the evolution and escape of gas to the air while the carbide is being introduced.

  62. Mounted at the side of the tank is the carbide delivery device, which consists of the carbide containers J supported on an axis beneath the water-sealed cover H.

  63. The containers in purifiers shall be made of such materials as are not dangerously affected by the respective purifying materials used.

  64. The cylinders receive tray carbide-containers divided into compartments perforated at different levels so that they are flooded in turn by the inflowing water.

  65. Be careful never to fill the containers over the specified mark, as it is important to allow for the swelling of the carbide when it comes in contact with water.

  66. The containers are filled with ordinary lump carbide when the cover H is removed.

  67. Each time the bell falls and the tappet strikes the pawl, one compartment of the carbide containers discharges its contents down the shoot K into the generating tank B.

  68. In charging the generating chambers of water-feed machines clean all residuum carefully from the containers and remove it at once from the building.

  69. Along with tanks and containers and other necessary equipment, all set up in a little factory building I had available for that purpose, I commenced the manufacture of filbert butter on a commercial scale.

  70. Then we placed our initial order for glass containers and re-shipping cases.

  71. Fortunately by this time the trench cook-house was not only an established thing but had become a very successful affair, and four times a day hot meals were carried in tanks and food containers from Battalion Headquarters to the front line.

  72. To absorb it, we would need to fill containers with potassium hydroxide and shake them continually.

  73. I left instructions for shipping my containers of stuffed animals and dried plants to Paris, France.

  74. There were no identifying marks on the containers and Tim and Ralph were careful not to disturb more than the one they had pulled into view.

  75. They slid down the bank of the old creek bed and Tim and Ralph pulled one of the containers out where they could get a better view.

  76. The containers should again be opened as soon as the destination is reached and an examination made as to the moisture condition of the kernels.

  77. Packing and Shipping Although previously discussed, the importance of clean, sanitary and attractive containers for shipment can scarcely be overstressed.

  78. As soon as received by the buyer the containers should be opened and the kernels spread out in clean bins where they may receive frequent inspection.


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