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Example sentences for "dropper"

Lexicographically close words:
drop; drope; droplet; droplets; dropped; droppers; droppes; droppeth; dropping; droppings
  1. In using "eye-drops" the head should be held back, and several drops be squeezed from a medicine dropper into the inner corner of the eye.

  2. Liquid vaseline, or the alboline mixture advised for adults, may be dropped into the nostrils with a medicine dropper more conveniently than applied by spray.

  3. For infants and children the contents of a straight medicine dropper will be sufficient.

  4. The dropper was to be filled with corn, and, thus accoutred, he was ready for doing duty in the newly ploughed field.

  5. A dibble and a corn-dropper will be more in his way than the rifle, for some weeks to come," said Mr. Howell.

  6. The boys very soon understood fully what a dibble was, and what a corn-dropper was, strange though those implements were to them at first.

  7. The dropper is held by its handle while its contents are heated before use.

  8. A hollowed nose-dropper made of metal in the shape of a small kerosene lamp[22] is suggested (fig.

  9. Several instruments are recommended for the removal of such foreign bodies--fine tweezers shaped like a dropper (fig.

  10. Ike the Dropper may have once been a strong-arm man, but at present I knew that he was chiefly noted for the fact, and he and his kind were reputed to be living on the earnings of women to whom they were supposed to afford "protection.

  11. Down the hall was Ike the Dropper with the policeman and Carton.

  12. You saw Ike the Dropper go out with that man?

  13. From time to time, as the pianist was moved, he played snatches of the same music as that which we had heard at the Futurist, and between us and Harris and Ike the Dropper several couples were one-stepping, each in their own sweet way.

  14. Then Ike the Dropper is the collector for the police or the politicians higher up," she exclaimed under her breath.

  15. They wouldn't be giving up money to Ike the Dropper if that was all there was.

  16. As for gangs--that was what you were going to say--I'd snap my fingers in the face of Ike the Dropper himself if he were here.

  17. Affection an incentive to exertion; Dropper alternately pointing Grouse and Snipe; Grouse-dog to be rated when noticing Snipe.

  18. Exemplified in an old dropper on the moors.

  19. Further, the results obtained with the water-dropper at two heights--viz.

  20. Kelvin, Maclean and Galt regard this property of falling water as an objection to the use of a water-dropper indoors, though not of practical importance when it is used out of doors.

  21. I put that dropper in the medicine closet," she said, and every one looked toward her.

  22. Mrs, Embury, how did that dropper get in that medicine chest in your bathroom?

  23. Then, her eyes flashing, she cried, "Do you mean he put the dropper in my room to throw suspicion on me, instead of on his wife?

  24. But, if I'm wrong, let Mrs, Embury explain the presence of that dropper in her medicine chest.

  25. That dropper thing is no positive information against her.

  26. Put on a dropper of some kind, say a caperer, as a second chance.

  27. Barney had a drink of the real stuff, and then another drink, in the measuring of neither of which had an eye-dropper been involved.

  28. All depends upon whether this here bomb-dropper turns out a good investment or a wild-goose chase.

  29. I guess that bomb-dropper of mine is a cinch.

  30. She carries a phial, a dropper and some water in a glass.

  31. From one bottle take a little in the medicine dropper and let a drop fall on your tongue.

  32. With a medicine dropper gradually add the dilute caustic soda (NaOH), stirring as you add it.

  33. My reason for using a dropper fly is not to offer the trout two counterfeit insects differing in shape or color; as commonly attached to the leader, the dropper swims with the tail fly.

  34. This deformity may seriously interfere with nursing, making it necessary to resort to feeding with a medicine dropper and later a spoon.

  35. The experiment will be more successful if the rubber bulb attached to an ordinary medicine-dropper be removed, and the tapering glass tube be slipped on to the outer end of the rubber tube attached to the faucet.

  36. This dropper has one end tapered to a fine point.

  37. To represent the resistance made by the capillaries to the flow of blood, slip the large end of a common glass medicine-dropper into the outer end of the rubber tube.

  38. She sat quite motionless with the bottle of Grover's Specific in one rubber-gloved hand, the medicine dropper poised in the other.

  39. If you wish to attach a dropper fly to a dry-fly leader without loops use the method shown In Fig.

  40. After Mr. Dropper closed, there was a brief silence, in which each member quietly smoked his pipe, apparently reflecting upon the morals of lotteries.

  41. Mr. Dropper fell upon the stomach of the half-awakened Quackenbush, they both pitched into Mr. Boggs, and then all three rolled over the Higholdboy.

  42. Mr. Dropper insisted that there was the evidence, "R.

  43. Mr. Dropper to pay the whole expense of procuring the same, and to stand a champagne supper for the honor conferred on him.

  44. At length, Mr. Dropper inquired of Mr. Spout if he had as yet fully elaborated the idea which, on the occasion of the previous meeting, had seemed to weigh so heavily on his mind?

  45. For four days Mr. Dropper was in a state of feverish undecision respecting his choice of a character.

  46. Illustration] Mr. Dropper said that he had but one fault to find.

  47. Dropper viewed the card, and the four looked at each other for a moment, apparently with a view of discovering who it was that answered the description of a "red-headed gintleman.

  48. I told him about the bomb-sight, and that at eight hundred feet the bomb-dropper should make one hit out of three on a visible target.

  49. All these factors are worked out on the bomb-sight, and the bomb-dropper has only to pull the release-lever when two projections on the sight and the target are in line.

  50. Dick asked this question with an air of so much earnestness that Frank could scarcely forbear laughing, though it is hardly necessary to say that the dropper was by no means so inclined.

  51. By this time the pocket-book dropper had come up.

  52. The first dropper loop should be about thirty inches from the stretcher, or tail-fly.

  53. I say attempted, because they had not moved six inches when first the dropper and then the tail fly were taken in a rush, by two large trout which didn't draw towards me worth a cent, for some fifteen minutes at least.


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