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Example sentences for "experimenting"

Lexicographically close words:
experimented; experimentelle; experimentellen; experimenter; experimenters; experiments; experimentum; expers; expert; experte
  1. Mendel and Osborn, experimenting on white rats have shown that the principle proteins of the Brazil nut will maintain animals through the growing period.

  2. Benjamin Franklin, of Philadelphia, coming into possession of some of Watson's books, became so interested in the experiments described in them that he began at once experimenting with electricity.

  3. In experimenting on pigeons and pullets with his electrical machine, Franklin found that a fowl, when not killed outright, was sometimes rendered blind.

  4. While experimenting to determine the strength of electricity he suspended a gun-barrel, which he charged with electricity from a revolving glass globe.

  5. In experimenting with lightning and Franklin's pointed rods in Europe, several scientists received severe shocks, in one case with a fatal result.

  6. As it was a practising physician, Gilbert, who first laid the foundation for experimenting with the new substance, so again it was a medical man who first attempted to put it to practical use, and that in the field of his profession.

  7. While Bose was constructing and experimenting with his huge machine, another German, Christian Friedrich Ludolff, demonstrated that electric sparks are actual fire--a fact long suspected but hitherto unproved.

  8. The problem that interested him was whether the vacuum in the tube of the barometer was essential to the light; and in experimenting to determine this, he invented his "mercurial fountain.

  9. In 1832, while experimenting one day with a decapitated newt, he observed that the headless creature's limbs would contract in direct response to certain stimuli.

  10. By one of those coincidences so common in the history of discovery, he was experimenting with ether as a pain-destroyer simultaneously with Morton, though neither so much as knew of the existence of the other.

  11. While experimenting in 1858 he discovered that there are certain nerves supplying the heart which, if stimulated, cause that organ to relax and cease beating.

  12. In the hope of accomplishing this result, Lister began experimenting with drugs that might kill the bacteria without injury to the patient, and with means to prevent further access of germs once a wound was freed from them.

  13. Observing this, and experimenting with other substances known to give off carbonic acid in the same manner, he was evidently impressed with the now well-known fact that diamond and charcoal are chemically the same.

  14. Sixty years of his life he had devoted to experimenting with and perfecting his chronometer.

  15. In the meantime he had done quite a lot of experimenting and had arrived at the conclusion he would in future center his energy on making only church clocks, hall clocks and turret clocks.

  16. The outlay for constructing machinery, buying materials, and experimenting licked up capital with terrifying rapidity.

  17. While experimenting I was tied down to Paris.

  18. After waiting, with the balloon filled with hydrogen, through two weeks of the worst possible weather I let out the gas and began experimenting with the motor and propeller.

  19. Experimenting in the same way with the gas at a higher temperature (21° C.

  20. Daboll, of Connecticut, who was experimenting to meet the announced wants of the United States Lighthouse Board.

  21. The electrical discoveries of Galvani, Volta, Benjamin Franklin, Henly and others caused much experimenting with the electric current in the treatment of muscular diseases.

  22. When he was twenty-one Goodyear entered a rubber house in Philadelphia and began experimenting in India rubber.

  23. One of the professor's assistants was engaged in experimenting with a large electric machine which stood upon the same table, and had occasion to draw sparks from the machine.

  24. Making cigars by hand seemed to him a poor way of doing it, so he began experimenting on his own account, and four years later he had a machine to do the work.

  25. It was found, by experimenting with paper figures, that by making one leg of each figure in two parts, the body, arms, and other leg could be sawed out of one piece.

  26. X KITES Making and experimenting with aeroplanes calls for much patience and often ends in disappointment--the lot of inventors generally.

  27. The designing of fancy figure kites is a fascinating occupation, but unless certain fixed principles are kept in mind may end in much experimenting and many disappointments.

  28. To him, experimenting was an act of reverence, not a deed of idle curiosity.

  29. He merely gazed for awhile, and then, dipping a brush and experimenting for his color, went to sweeping in his primary tones.

  30. The artist suited the action to the word, and soon Samson was experimenting with a mixture.

  31. Foremost among the latter was the distinguished Swiss naturalist and bee-keeper, Francois Huber, who was led to construct the leaf-hive bearing his name after experimenting with a single comb observatory hive recommended by Reaumur.

  32. Langstroth was experimenting on the same lines in America, and in 1852 his important invention was made known, giving to the world of bee-keepers a movable frame which in its most important details will never be excelled.

  33. Wonder if those boys even dream what their experimenting has led up to!

  34. We never did find out what the Germans used it for--for all we know they may have been experimenting along under-sea lines too.

  35. You see we're just experimenting to find out what we can do with loop aerials--call ourselves radio detectives--and we picked on this fellow because his messages seemed sort of mysterious and are so easily recognized.

  36. After that he commenced experimenting with the different kinds of clays, to see if he could not make the ware.

  37. He then commenced experimenting with feldspar and kaolin to make porcelain, and, after much labor, he succeeded in making a few small articles of very good porcelain.

  38. From July to October 1906, Santos-Dumont was experimenting with this biplane, using a stretch of grass-land at Bagetelle.

  39. Frequently, when experimenting in strong winds, he would find himself higher than his starting-point, and would hang almost motionless for a moment or so, soaring in the air.

  40. For many months he had been experimenting in the making of fine red glass of a certain tone, of which he had brought home a small fragment from one of his journeys.

  41. The speed with which light actually travelled was, however, so rapid that its determination eluded all the means of experimenting which were available in those days.

  42. He greatly preferred experimenting on his water-wheels to looking after labourers, while he found that working at mathematics behind a hedge was much more interesting than chaffering about the price of bullocks in the market place.

  43. The cardinal ideas as to instinct and evolution, the necessity of experimenting in the psychology of animals, and the harmonic laws of the conservation of the individual, are here already expounded in their final and definite form.

  44. Oh yes, he is perpetually experimenting in some direction or other," said Mrs. Haldane, with a laugh.

  45. He is in his laboratory, experimenting as usual.

  46. By experimenting on our ideas of reality, we may save ourselves the trouble of experimenting on the real experiences which they severally mean.

  47. After experimenting awhile the boys and I concluded to give a dinner party in the laboratory and invite a few friends to test the results of our cooking.

  48. Meanwhile there is plenty of time for other things and a vast lot of experimenting goes on down at the mill.

  49. Recently the Germans have been experimenting with a combined fertilizer, Schröder's potassium phosphate, which is said to be as good as Thomas slag for phosphates and as good as Stassfurt salts for potash.

  50. I believe the poor beggar had been experimenting with a Flying-Machine!


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