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Example sentences for "flaws"

Lexicographically close words:
flavours; flaw; flawed; flawes; flawless; flax; flaxen; flaxseed; flay; flayed
  1. You are a strength repenting a weakness; there are flaws in you, and yet I could wish that I were the mother of such a son.

  2. I don't know anything about art, but, so far as I am concerned, it is a waste of time for any scholar to pick flaws in a thing that makes me feel.

  3. When any serious flaws present themselves in the sides or roof of the galleries, they are invariably made good with masonry.

  4. It is simply to the flaws and failures of female intelligence that the parallel applies.

  5. I fear me much I scarce have bought A Titian) Master Buti's flaws Found there, will have the laugh flaws ought!

  6. Plain you spy Its ultimate effect, but many flaws Of vision blur each intervening cause.

  7. For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure Which lies as safe in a golden ewer; But the main thing is, does it hold good measure?

  8. All this morning, until noon, We had baffling winds, and sudden flaws Struck the sea with their cat's-paws.

  9. It is but the rest of the wind between the flaws that blow!

  10. There were several flaws in his argument.

  11. These streamed across the face of a haggard-looking moon, and in the flaws of the wind down came the rain in a perfect drench.

  12. A person who sets out with the expectation and intention of finding flaws in anything usually succeeds.

  13. The temptation to point out the flaws that are most obvious is always great, but unless by so doing one can knock out the props on which an opponent's proof rests, such an attack accomplishes nothing.

  14. Whatever flaws there may have been in the man, he was of a finer clay than his fellows, for he could dream dreams that their dull imaginations could not conceive.

  15. Black veins are in the purest marble, and flaws in the most lustrous diamonds.

  16. If you want to find out the flaws in some thin, badly-woven piece of cloth, you hold it up against the light, do you not?

  17. How comes He to be free from the flaws which, like black streaks in Parian marble, spoil the noblest characters?

  18. Green stones, the sunlight breaking against the flaws in a shower of golden sparks; green as the pulp of a Champagne grape; the drums of jeopardy!

  19. Then followed the tricks by which an artist seeks to discover flaws or wolf notes.

  20. He says, as to the flaws in his poems, that he "has a reasonable confidence that they will not all be discovered by any one reader.

  21. Flaws I may find in him; but hot anger rises in my heart if I hear him miscalled.

  22. Take notice, that there are flaws in your grandfather's will: not a shilling of that estate will be yours, if you do not yield.

  23. You think you are so smart, picking flaws with people's intelligence.

  24. D, Destruction of Trees on Confiscated Lands, Discoverers (of flaws in Irish titles), Debasing of the Coinage by James I.

  25. But mind you, although I would never confess it to Veritas, because he sees nothing but flaws on every side, the Irish pig is, to my taste, a trifle too much in the foreground.

  26. With the ebb tide and what flaws of wind we could catch we stood to the southward, to get some angles and bearings, and see more of the shore between Cape Good Success and the bay.

  27. The flaws were so variable, that we were two hours knocking the helm and sails about before we could clear the anchorage, and move half a mile in still water.

  28. We weighed and made sail; but the breeze failed, and flaws came against us.

  29. Reform has to begin at the top, and if the division is to be the unit the superintendent must be something more than a high-class chief dispatcher finding flaws in train sheets.

  30. If you find flaws in the reasons announced for certain appointments, forget them in the thought that honesty of purpose is a distinguishing characteristic of operating management.

  31. Although flaws in it are of rare occurrence, they nevertheless sometimes appear in the obelisks.

  32. After going over the edge with the waxed rag, the bare edges may take a greater pressure in burnishing, and if no flaws are now perceptible there need be no hesitation in burnishing with very strong pressure.


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