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Example sentences for "edgeways"

Lexicographically close words:
edeth; edge; edged; edgeless; edges; edgewise; edging; edgings; edible; edibles
  1. I bees a-hurtin', but I can't never git in edgeways for her.

  2. De cabins was made of split logs, put up edgeways and daubed wid mud inside an' out.

  3. Others, again, are built on the verge of a pit, so that they may cut the edges of an up-ended plate, and make it fit against its fellows so truly that you could not slip a sheet of paper edgeways between them.

  4. If they struck it at all edgeways they would "sprain their ankles"; otherwise, probably break off at the ball joint.

  5. Maggie turned it over and over, held it edgeways this side and edgeways the other, but could make nothing of it.

  6. Close by, another shaft led edgeways up into the superincumbent shoulder of the hill.

  7. And the many small arms which stretch out from the Milky Way would have to be either planes seen edgeways or the convexities of curved surfaces viewed tangentially.

  8. If looked at edgeways it will be linear, if tilted a little it would be elliptic; but the ellipse would, even at that distance, be greater than the greatest parallactic ellipse of any star in the sky.

  9. But turn the slate edgeways and the section of each nodule is seen to be a sharp oval with its longer axis parallel to the cleavage.

  10. An oar runs freely edgeways through the water, and imparts far less of its motion to the water than when its broad flat side is brought to bear upon it.

  11. A trunk of about a foot in diameter will commonly rive into five staves, each about seven inches wide: such should be placed edgeways on the walls, that their scantlings may be in a proper direction.

  12. Pieces of moulded compass timber fayed edgeways to the cut-water and stem, to steady the former.

  13. Two pieces of oak-plank fayed edgeways against the top-sides, abreast the main hatchway, to prevent the sides being chafed by the hoisting of things on board.

  14. The thickness of the rings seen edgeways has been variously estimated.

  15. The axe would be placed edgeways towards the archer, and he would have to shoot his arrow through the hole into which the handle was fitted when the axe was in use.

  16. Twelve axes were placed in a row all at the same height, all exactly in front of one another, all edgeways to Ulysses whose arrow passed through all the holes from the first onward.

  17. Pon my word, Paddy, there's no getting in edgeways with you.

  18. Jack, "when you haven't given anybody a chance to get a word in edgeways all day--but there!

  19. Drill and tap the eccentric edgeways for a lock screw.

  20. The crank pin will be rendered immovable by a small lock screw penetrating the boss edgeways and engaging with a nick in the pin.


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