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Example sentences for "contains"

Lexicographically close words:
containers; containes; containeth; containing; containment; contaminate; contaminated; contaminates; contaminating; contamination
  1. This set of five volumes contains about 2,500 pages with thousands of illustrations, including diagrammatic and sectional drawings with full explanatory details.

  2. It contains twice as many pages and double the number of illustrations of previous editions.

  3. Contains sections as follows: A Bit of History.

  4. Contains a lot of useful hints and several tables.

  5. The book is complete and contains much of value to all who have charge of large plants.

  6. It contains no useless theory; everything is to the point.

  7. Contains complete and reliable information of the Standard Code of Train Rules for single track.

  8. The book contains eleven chapters, and the information contained in these chapters is just what will prove most valuable to the forged-metal worker.

  9. Illustration] Contains Valuable Instructions for All Aviation Students, Mechanicians, Squadron Engineering Officers and All Interested in the Construction and Upkeep of Airplane Power Plants.

  10. An analogy may be made with the opening of any bottle which contains liquid highly carbonated.

  11. The modern structure of the convent of Santo Domingo, built in 1534, is at A, which contains in its construction some remains of the walls of the older edifice.

  12. The work is useful because it contains the Greek text (from a MS.

  13. The first volume contains a treatise on Arabian geographers and their systems.

  14. Horn says of this codex: “The book was written towards the end of the fourteenth century by two Icelandic priests, and contains in strange confusion and wholly without criticism a large number of sagas, poems, and stories.

  15. The article by Marinelli which contains the sketch given here has also appeared separately in a German translation (Die Erdkunde bei den Kirchenvätern, Leipzig, 1884).

  16. The second Report of the Regents in 1848 contains approvals of a manuscript by E.

  17. The work is accompanied by a large atlas of engravings; but it contains grave inaccuracies, and the map of Pachacamac is a serious blemish to the work.

  18. The volume contains three interesting portraits of Catlin and reimpressions of his drawings as originally published.

  19. McClellan (Washington, 1854), contains a vocabulary of the Comanches and Witchitas, with some general remarks by W.

  20. The information it contains is often inaccurate, the details are less complete than in most of the other works written soon after the conquest,[1245] and a want of knowledge of the language is frequently made apparent.

  21. Washington, 1881), also contains a bibliography of anthropology by O.

  22. Apart from its implied teleology, this passage contains the gist of the whole matter.

  23. This philosophy contains a truth, but as usually manifested it is nothing but the result of a morbid self-consciousness.

  24. For it contains an abundant vestige of self-motion, but not that which is true and converted to itself, and on this account perfectly separated from a subject.

  25. For man comprehends in himself partially everything which the world contains divinely and totally.

  26. After these I have ranked the Timaeus, which contains the whole of his physiology, and together with it the Critias, because of its connection with the Timaeus.

  27. Hence it contains in its essence immaterial forms of things material, incorporeal of such as are corporeal, and extended of such as are distinguished by interval.

  28. The next in order is the Parmenides, which contains a system of his theology.

  29. But it contains intelligibles after the manner of an image, and receives partibly their impartible forms, such as are uniform variously, and such as are immovable, according to a self-motive condition.

  30. A whole prior to parts is that which causally contains parts in itself.

  31. So far therefore as soul contains intellect by participation, so far it is produced by intellect, but so far as it is self-motive it is produced by itself.

  32. For the immovable contains as numerous a multitude immovably; as the self-moved self-moveably.

  33. Speaking of the brain of ants, Sir John Lubbock says, "The head bears the principal organs of sense, and contains the brain, as the anterior portion of the nervous system may fairly be called.

  34. It contains a large meeting-hall, and plenty of room for office and all families connected with it.

  35. An entry from the diary, dated October 7, contains an interesting item and will close this chapter.

  36. One day the five boys went with Coifi to Godmundham to visit the temple which contains the sacred images brought from the old home on the continent.

  37. If, therefore, this new doctrine contains something more certain, it seems justly to deserve to be followed.

  38. A large bowl on a tall foot is of gold, and contains a burning wick.

  39. Now, the Panggong-tso is cut off from the Indus and consequently contains salt water.

  40. Such a praying machine contains miles of thin paper strips with prayers printed on them, and wound round and round the axis of the cylinder.

  41. It contains a collection of canonical works which were translated from the Sanscrit originals in the ninth century.

  42. Grape juice has food value, as it contains more solid matter than milk, and is recommended as a drink for children and for invalids.

  43. Maple sap contains other ingredients beside water and sugar.

  44. They are quite as happy living the simple life in a dry-goods box, provided it contains the conveniences they require, and is placed where the light will be plentiful, the air pure, and the roof rain proof.

  45. My experience is that seed corn bought in bulk contains a large number of poor grains.

  46. This mother contains great numbers of acetic acid makers and if placed in your barrels will hasten the changes that fit the hard cider for use on the table.

  47. The farm contains one hundred and twenty acres, and the six thousand hens are scattered over the whole farm in colony houses.

  48. This is very wasteful, for this ice contains about thirty per cent.

  49. Each of these Specula contains a summary, extracted from the various writings which have reference to the subject of it, and the authors of which Vincent of Beauvais takes care to name.

  50. Of these it was thought that the Appendix contains enough.

  51. It is a very curious one and contains many strange pictures of the times.

  52. The remainder contains more accounts, and a further catalogue of books, without the prices, and other memoranda and reflections, now of no interest.

  53. It also contains the finest examples of varied and sounding versification.

  54. There is one fine passage in his Christobel, that which contains the description of the quarrel between Sir Leoline and Sir Roland de Vaux of Tryermaine, who had been friends in youth.

  55. In the same White Book which contains these documents there is printed the Congolese defence drawn up by M.

  56. Yet it contains the essential facts, and will enable the reader to form his own opinion upon the situation.

  57. The report of the Secretary of the Navy contains a detailed exhibit of the condition of his Department, with such a statement of the action needed to improve the same as should challenge the earnest attention of the Congress.

  58. The report of the Civil Service Commission, which will be submitted, contains an account of the manner in which the civil-service law has been executed during the last year and much valuable information on this important subject.

  59. The report of the Attorney-General contains a history of the conduct of the Department of Justice during the last year and a number of valuable suggestions as to needed legislation, and I invite your careful attention to the same.

  60. The attention of Congress is invited to the detailed account which it contains of the administration of his Department, and his recommendations and suggestions for the improvement of the service.

  61. The report of the Commissioner of Pensions contains a detailed and most satisfactory exhibit of the operations of the Pension Bureau during the last fiscal year.

  62. The report of the Secretary of War gives a detailed account of the administration of his Department and contains sundry recommendations for the improvement of the service, which I fully approve.

  63. This saturated air is afterward diluted with additional air, to produce a quality of gas that contains proportions of air and gasoline vapor which will produce complete combustion when burned with an open flame.

  64. Any water that contains more than 500 parts to the million is condemned for drinking purposes.

  65. We have a sample of gasoline sold as ‘high’-test gasoline which contains 29 per cent.

  66. The cabinet contains besides the cutouts a double-poled switch to be used for shutting off the current from the building when desired.

  67. If the earth contains organic matter as pathogenic bacteria the water is likely to contain these bacteria in like numbers as they are present in the soil through which the water filters.

  68. This is a step-down transformer and the secondary coil contains fewer turns of wire than the primary coil.

  69. In the case of the gas-filled Mazda lamp the high filament temperature produces a light that differs markedly from the vacuum lamps in that it contains a greater amount of blue and green rays.

  70. If the gas contains too great an amount of gasoline vapor, the flame will smoke.

  71. The closet seat also contains a trap which will be described later.

  72. Suppose that, as in the case of Pennsylvania bituminous coal which contains 2.

  73. The carburetor is a tank which contains the supply of gasoline and is so constructed as to permit the air from the blower to most readily take up the gasoline vapor.

  74. It contains a high percentage of carbon, a small amount of volatile matter and little moisture.

  75. The 86° gasoline contains a greater proportion of oily matter and a less amount of that of a spiritous nature.

  76. The spiteful remarks the sketch contains may be considered, along with those of the same nature to be found only too plentifully in the remaining two papers.

  77. As a rule a fusiform aneurysm contains fluid blood, but when the intima is roughened by disease, especially in the form of calcareous plates, shreds of clot may adhere to it.

  78. The tumour is seldom composed entirely of gland tissue; it usually contains a considerable proportion of fibrous tissue, and is then called a fibro-adenoma.

  79. More rarely the joint contains pus, and the surface of the synovial membrane resembles the wall of a cold abscess.

  80. Pus due to ordinary pyogenic cocci has a mawkish odour; when putrefactive organisms are present it has a putrid odour; when it forms in the vicinity of the intestinal canal it usually contains the bacillus coli communis and has a fæcal odour.

  81. The cyst is usually situated between the skin and fascia, and contains clear or blood-stained serum.

  82. That part of the corium immediately adjoining the epidermis is known as the papillary portion, and contains the terminal loops of the cutaneous blood vessels and the terminations of the cutaneous nerves.

  83. The urine is small in amount, and contains a large proportion of urates.

  84. The inner coat is less easily ruptured, and the middle coat contains a smaller proportion of muscular tissue.

  85. As the body usually contains bone, it is recognisable in a skiagram.

  86. It sometimes contains a number of loose bodies.

  87. The stomach that contains an ulcer ends by digesting itself; and reason ends by destroying the immediate and absolute validity of the concept of truth and of the concept of necessity.

  88. His Rosario de Sonetos Líricos, published in 1911, contains some of the finest sonnets in the Spanish language.

  89. Mother's milk contains from one-fourth to one-third more fat than the baby can use in its economy.

  90. This minute bit of protoplasm, so small that it requires a rather strong power of the microscope to see it, somehow contains compressed within itself all the qualities that characterize the parent and are to be transmitted to the offspring.

  91. This vital force behind the nervous system contains stores of energy that can be called on for therapeutic purposes.

  92. The literature of the antidotes used for opium is extremely interesting and even in recent times contains many disillusions.

  93. It is this glorious vision which contains in itself this transforming power, and which assimilates the soul to God.

  94. Let me tell you, dear Prince, that the envelope which you carry contains nothing but a blank paper.

  95. The paper contains an outline of the piece to be played, the names of the characters, the actors, and the scene of action.

  96. It contains one article which I would advise you to suppress," said Nagato.

  97. The temple contains nothing but a large round mirror of polished metal,--symbol of purity and perspicacity.

  98. Every pigeon-hole contains a potential revolution; every office-box cradles the embryo of a war or dearth.


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