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Example sentences for "devices"

Lexicographically close words:
deviates; deviating; deviation; deviations; device; devide; devided; deviennent; devient; devil
  1. At length, in the spring, by such devices as this--seizing all the securities lodged for loans, etc.

  2. The best horses Andalucia could breed or the world could see were brought out that day, with glittering trappings and harness, liveries, devices and accoutrements, richer than had ever been beheld.

  3. Until there was found among them one, differing from the rest, whose pursuits attracted him not, and so he stayed by the tents with the women, and traced strange devices with a burnt stick upon a gourd.

  4. Yet I am curious to know, Jenny, what he means by saying that wives' devices to keep their husbands' love are mostly dull blunders.

  5. So much for the intrusion of modern devices when one is revelling in one of the most interesting ethnological exhibits ever gathered.

  6. They are determined to retain their husbands' complete allegiance, but their devices and contrivances are mostly dull blunders.

  7. Even the inmates of the wiharas and monasteries discovered devices for the saving of conscience, and curried rice was not rejected in consequence of the animal ingredients incorporated with it.

  8. I won't tell you all the little devices I tried to get that bird round again, I simply can't.

  9. Reuben Cowder, spending his time and money and wits in inventing devices to hasten Nancy's recovery, never could understand how anything but a miracle had saved her life, cut off as she was from everything that to him seemed essential.

  10. Outside of these devices for meeting the breaking down of human beings, Ralph took no interest in Europe.

  11. It is astonishing in what devices this "surplus population" takes refuge.

  12. In these cases all sorts of devices are used; potato parings, vegetable refuse, and rotten vegetables are eaten for want of other food, and everything greedily gathered up which may possibly contain an atom of nourishment.

  13. Many of the devices are curious by which this indifference to life has been matured and sustained.

  14. There is an obvious distinction indeed between the above method of overcoming an enemy and such favourite devices as ambuscades, feigned retreats, night attacks, or the diversion of a defence to the wrong point.

  15. All the operating devices of Research Installation 83 worked as if they liked to--which might have been alarming except that they never did anything of themselves.

  16. He went into the room where Betsy stood--the communicator which, alone among receiving devices in the whole world, picked up the enigmatic broadcasts consistently.

  17. There was the pleasant, disorderly array of devices with their wavering standby lights.

  18. Lecky followed Sergeant Bellews as the sergeant picked up his new combination of devices and headed out of the Rehab Shop.

  19. There was a sudden squealing sound from the communicator on which all the extra recording devices were focussed.

  20. But the jet-planes on the small airfield were very remarkable indeed, and the other and lesser devices had been made for better understanding of the Mahon units which made machines into practically a new order of creation.

  21. She was surrounded by recording devices for vision and sound, and by the most sensitive and complicated instruments yet devised for the detection of short-wave radiation.

  22. With many ragged edges, with many weaknesses, it built up something like a united Hellenic religion to stand against the 'beastly devices of the heathen'.

  23. Indeed, this system of "yumei-mujitsu" government was one of the devices whereby the inherent evils of hereditary rulers were more or less obviated.

  24. Even for the transactions of daily life we have resorted to the constant use of pen and notebook and typewriter, by these devices saving time and strength for other things.

  25. Many were their devices for training the young in bravery.

  26. The methods of execution were also refined devices of torture.

  27. You see, they were trying out some secret devices in those planes.

  28. But when they start doing our work—” “Then you didn’t tell her about secret devices and all that?

  29. In it we may find instruments or devices as yet unknown to us.

  30. I believe so, sir," answered the other officer, at the screens of the six periscopic devices which covered the full sphere of vision.

  31. Who can doubt that young James was well used to all devices for deceiving his gaolers, he who had been held by so many?

  32. We noticed an absence of safety devices and safety notices.

  33. We then visited the company hospital, a part of which was occupied by electric devices for treating the wounded.

  34. And now, being strong enough to paint without a master, it was found that there was no good light in the house in Fitzroy Square; and Mr. Clive must needs have an atelier hard by, where he could pursue his own devices independently.

  35. The font has a large octagonal bowl, with heads at the angles, and elaborate trefoil devices on the faces; the shaft is plain, octagonal, the pediment a stone cross.

  36. In the moulding above the inner doorway is a curiously crowned head, probably representing the Empress Helena, the patron saint; other curious devices running down the moulding on each side.

  37. But of all the tricks and the devices she taught him, the chief, undoubtedly, were those concerned with the capture of hens and ducks from a neighbouring farmstead.

  38. The name is also given to other forms of apparatus for weighing bodies, as to the combinations of levers making up platform scales; and even to devices for weighing by the elasticity of a spring.

  39. With the aid of electrical or mechanical devices adapted to it, it is used for the automatic regulation of the temperature of rooms warmed artificially, and as a fire alarm.

  40. The Black Prince, in his will, mentions certain devices that he appears to have used as badges; among the rest we find "Mermaids of the Sea.

  41. One of his devices was the pelican in its piety.

  42. Some maritime towns bear nautical devices of the fictitious kind referred to.

  43. A creature very similar to the harpy (a combination of several badges), was one of the favourite devices of Richard III.

  44. His hand may have been ignorant of many masterly devices for which the time was not ripe; but his head and heart knew all.

  45. Herodotus tells us that the Carians first set the Greeks the example of fastening crests upon their helmets, and of putting devices upon their shields.

  46. These devices were figured on crest, banner, and shield.

  47. The gladiators' helmet decorations, in the pictures found at Pompeii, are generally plumes or tufts of horsehair, but some of their shields exhibit devices suggestive of those of more recent date.

  48. The operations themselves are the manifestations of purely terrestrial energy, which, by its working in various devices or arrangements of material is being transformed and transmitted from one form of matter to another.

  49. The use of such devices really amounts to an admission of direct ignorance of phenomena.

  50. In fact, this latter phenomenon is largely taken advantage of in the so-called vacuum flasks or other devices to maintain bodies at a temperature either above or below that of the external surrounding bodies.

  51. Extension of Pendulum Principles to Terrestrial Phenomena The energy phenomena illustrated by the experimental devices above are to be observed, in their aspects of greatest perfection, in the natural world.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "devices" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ability; capacity; capital; device; expedient; funds; furniture; game; hardware; influence; machination; maneuvering; manipulation; method; power; recourse; resort; resources; stock; supply; tactics; way; wherewithal