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Example sentences for "fluted"

Lexicographically close words:
fluster; flustered; flustrated; flut; flute; flutelike; flutes; fluting; flutings; flutist
  1. Sigillaria pachyderma; the stem marked with scars, and fluted longitudinally.

  2. Sigillaria (Favularia) tessellata, from the Denbigh coal-shale, showing the fluted stem with scars.

  3. The stem of Sigillaria is fluted in a longitudinal manner, like a Doric column, and has a succession of single scars, which indicate the points of insertion of the leaves (Figs.

  4. Hugh Miller remarks--"The sculpturesque character of the nobly-fluted Sigillarias was shared by not a few of its contemporaries.

  5. Vascular cylinder thin; outer surface of bark more fully fluted and articulated than the inner surface.

  6. The stem of this tree would appear like a fluted column, rising simply and gracefully without branches to a great height, and then spreading out a magnificent head of leaves like a noble palm-tree.

  7. The pillars which supported the roof were of great magnificence, painted for half their height like marble, and the second half fluted and painted white; they were crowned by capitals of plaster of Paris.

  8. It is a large brick building, with four fluted and carved pilasters running up the front.

  9. The temple itself is not now (1848) more than forty feet in height, but its solid walls and bold outlines towering over the fluted pillars of the surrounding colonnade give it a most imposing appearance.

  10. The egg is rounded at the base, subconical, truncated, and depressed at the upper end and fluted by light raised ridges (see p.

  11. The fourth hall, built after the Great Fire had made clear work of Oxford House, was a small brick building, the entrance opening within an arcade of three arches springing from square fluted pillars.

  12. The entablature rests on fluted Corinthian columns, supporting statues, which indicate the four quarters of the globe.

  13. The panelled wainscoting (in the old churchwarden taste) was separated into compartments by fluted Corinthian pilasters.

  14. The Maximilian fluted armour is a development of this, belonging, however, rather to Renaissance than Gothic times.

  15. The not inelegant fluted Maximilian armets of the same date are, however, far more frequent.

  16. All the cap-a-pie suits of fluted Maximilian armour resemble each other in their more salient characteristics.

  17. The barrel has a beautiful fluted twist on it, and the lock-plate and hammer, as well as the butt, are chiselled in high relief.

  18. Sometimes the helmets in which this occurs had a pair of fan-like appendages in pierced and fluted steel, forming a dignified and wing-like crest.

  19. By 1435 these tuilles are ridged or fluted perpendicularly and scalloped along the lower edge, and shortly after they take the more developed, elongate and elegant forms familiar in Gothic armour.

  20. Contemporary with these suits is the fine German late Gothic fluted armour, known as Maximilian, nearly perfect examples of which are to be seen in every collection of importance.

  21. Though mainly worn in Germany, fluted armour became everywhere the fashion, the portrait by Piero di Cosimo, Fig.

  22. Some German suits of this date look affectedly ungainly; such as a mounted suit attributed to Duke John of Saxony, which is slightly fluted and bears the great tilting helm.

  23. Sir Wheatman Pearson possesses the barded suit of fluted armour said to have been worn by a Talbot of Shrewsbury at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.

  24. The armet is of fine form, with the visor thrown into the series of peaks and ridges common to fluted armour, and known to collectors as the bellows shape.

  25. The suit is graceful and of exquisite workmanship, slightly fluted in the arms, with fingered gauntlets and moderately long and pointed sollerets.

  26. The Casa Zaporta can boast of a very fine staircase and beautiful patio with elegant fluted columns and reliefs and medallions breaking the spandrils.

  27. The Casa de Miranda, with a noble courtyard and well-proportioned fluted columns, near which is the Casa de Angulo a strong fortress-like building.

  28. Your nose is incomparable," he told her: and then he bent to his paddle and made the canoe fly along so that the water fluted to right and left of the bows.

  29. Then the Piovene, with fluted window pillars and marble decorations; then the Emo, another antiquity shop, with a fine view down the canal from its balcony.

  30. The blank is then fluted or gashed to form the teeth, after which the tops of the teeth are relieved or backed off to provide clearance for the cutting edges.

  31. The hob used for this purpose is accurately threaded to correspond with the pitch for which the tool is required, and then it is fluted to form cutting edges, and is hardened.

  32. The cored hole is beveled true at the end by flat drill A to form a true starting surface for the three-fluted drill B which follows.

  33. The reamer shown at B is a fluted type with cutting edges that extend from a to b; it is used for finishing holes and the drill or rose reamer preceding it should leave the hole very close to the required size.

  34. Just above the edge of this broken ground stood a queer little square building, looking like a truncated tower roofed in with fluted tiles, and close by was a small outhouse, apparently built up against a piece of ruined stone wall.

  35. The wide doorway, standing at the truncated angle of a great block or "isle" of houses, was surmounted by a loggia roofed with fluted tiles, and supported by stone columns with roughly carved capitals.

  36. It has eleven fluted Corinthian marble columns supporting a tolerably well-preserved entablature, and plainly belonging to the longer side of a basilica or temple.

  37. The ruins of the temple consist of three lofty fluted Corinthian columns, a pilaster of white Carrara marble, a part of the surmounting architrave, and the corresponding wall of the cella of the temple.

  38. Originally there were two fluted Corinthian columns on each side of both faces of the arch, the two inner of which are now left, while the two outer are modern.

  39. They have fluted shafts and Corinthian capitals.

  40. These ruins consist first of three fluted columns of travertine with Ionic capitals, which stand in the facade of the church of S.

  41. In the street called the Via di Pescaria, which runs north-westwards from the Theatre of Marcellus, stand four fluted Corinthian columns, two on each side of the street.

  42. The whole of the shaft is occupied by a spiral series of reliefs, and only a small ring of fluted mouldings separates them from the capital, which is of the Romano-Doric order.

  43. Two fluted Doric pillars, the fragments of which were found near the spot, have now been placed at these corners.

  44. The sides are fluted with deep furrows which contain the small incurrent apertures.

  45. It is about one and a half inches in diameter, with rather thick, pointed, and fluted spines.

  46. These sides are decorated by fluted pilasters of the Corinthian order, which for so large and lofty a building have a tame effect.

  47. This church presents you with a single insulated row of fluted Ionic pillars, on each side of the nave; very airy, yet consequential, and even imposing.

  48. In the apse are a series of fluted and spiral columns.

  49. These gentlemen fluted the pillars of the choir, and converted the mouldings of the capitals into garlands and flowery festoons, giving the whole a grandly Classic appearance.

  50. And as the notes came slowly, but precisely, from the cool, darkened living room, with its fragrant masses of sweet peas and fluted Martha Washington geraniums, Peter felt contented and serene.

  51. The mansion, indeed, was of princely front, with chiselled fa‡ade and great doric windows of deep fluted mouldings, grand in outline.

  52. The fluted rollers run very slowly, and the rags are held while the swift carries out this operation.

  53. The rags are fed by placing them on the traveling feed apron, and are thus conveyed to the fluted rollers.

  54. The machine by which this is effected is made up of the following parts: feed apron, fluted rollers, swift, and a funnel for conveying the material out of the machine.

  55. As regards all view and rental behind him, Jay Dee was as bad as one of the old fluted pillars.

  56. One has a fluted pipe; another has a key with two wards; in another the key is riveted on the hoop.

  57. During a single storm a hilltop may dissolve, a mountain-side be fluted with slides, a grove be overturned and swept away by an avalanche, or a lake be buried forever.

  58. The bark is fluted and blackish-gray in youth, and it breaks up into irregular plates, which on old trees frequently are five inches or more in thickness.

  59. It was found lying side by side with a fluted bronze dagger, affording, as Canon Greenwell observes, a valuable illustration of the contemporaneous use of bronze and stone.

  60. The last peculiarity I have to notice is when the blade of the celt assumes an ornamental character, by being fluted or otherwise ornamented.

  61. The more convex face has been fluted or “ripple-marked” by cross-flaking from either side in the most skilful manner, the whole of the original polished surface being sometimes removed.

  62. For some small hint of the beauties to be shown later there is the roof of a temple, ridged and fluted with dark tiles, flung out casually beyond the corner of the bluff on which the garden stands.


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