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Example sentences for "gauge"

Lexicographically close words:
gaudio; gaudium; gauds; gaudy; gaue; gauged; gauger; gaugers; gauges; gauging
  1. The crusher plug is fitted with a crusher gauge H for determining the pressure of the gases at the moment of explosion, and in addition there is frequently a second crusher gauge apparatus screwed into the cylinder.

  2. Velocity, pattern, and penetration were taken at 40 yards from the muzzle of a 12-gauge choke-bore double-barrel gun.

  3. The so-called crusher gauge was, however, first used by Captain Sir Andrew Noble in his researches on powder.

  4. The gauge showing the quantity of glycerine used.

  5. The pressure of the compressed air as seen from a gauge fixed upon the air pipe just before it enters the apparatus.

  6. Steel Punch and Lead Cylinder for Use with Pressure Gauge 57.

  7. By means of vacuum pressure, the pulp is now drawn off and up into the stuff chest--a large cylindrical iron tank, sufficiently elevated on iron standards to allow room for the small gauge tanks and moulding apparatus below.

  8. Other forms are the Rodman[A] punch Uchatius Eprouvette, and the crusher gauge of the English Commission on Explosives.

  9. Raysk is the point at which the enemy broad-gauge railway from the north joins the 1.

  10. Canadian railway troops were brought up, and as soon as the enemy had been cleared away from the Canal, work was commenced on the repairing of the standard-gauge railway forward from Sauchy Lestree.

  11. Plate XXII, the muck in the tunnel cars being hoisted by elevators to a platform at the top from which it was dumped into standard-gauge cars supplied by the Erie Railroad, as shown by Fig.

  12. The time the shovel is working is shown by the heavy line filling a whole space; and the air pressure, platted from the recording gauge charts, is shown in the space below.

  13. Twenty-one months ago it was the gauge of battle, and half a million men fought for it; a new German drive may approach it at any time.

  14. Save for a crazy narrow-gauge line wandering along the hill slopes, climbing by impossible grades, Verdun is without rail communication.

  15. Apart from a single narrow-gauge railroad of minor value, which wanders among the hills, climbing at prohibitive grades, Verdun is isolated from the rest of France.

  16. Shutting the door, he opened an auxiliary air-tank, adjusting the gauge to one atmosphere as he did so.

  17. But many of these channels in Crystal Cave, or indeed we might say, most of them, present an unmistakable record of the gauge of the water stage at different periods.

  18. A gauge was set to register the pressure of the vapor within.

  19. Dick glanced at the gauge on the tube, then jerked the valve shut.

  20. He turned the heating unit on full, and watched the gauge climb higher.

  21. When he opened the valve again, the steam gauge did not rise!

  22. One side of his face had been wrecked through the bursting of a pressure-gauge in the days when men knew less than they do now, and his nose rose grandly out of the wreck, like a club in a public riot.

  23. At this point—Mendoza—a change of car is made to the less comfortable narrow-gauge road that takes the traveler through the fastnesses of the Andes.

  24. From here to the port city of Valparaiso, Chile, the route is over the Chilean State Railroad, which is of standard gauge and passes through some rich and fertile valleys on its way toward the Pacific.

  25. As the pressure-gauge indicates the approach to the required depth the rudder is flattened out a little until just that position is found which keeps the boat under at the desired depth.

  26. Its gauge needle showed no field force caused by electrical equipment in operation.

  27. But he was careful to gauge his knots by reports from the sonarscope, in order not to widen the gap between the two craft.

  28. That the condition of woman, or her relative independence, is no safe gauge of the general culture of a nation, also appears from a comparison between many of the lower races and the peoples of archaic civilisation.

  29. I will now give you a conversation between Glycon and one Sacerdos of Tius; the intelligence of the latter you may gauge from his questions.

  30. But my father in his simplicity, knowing neither when nor how the trouble began, and quite unable to gauge its gravity, bade me cure her by the drugs that had cured him.

  31. Think of a horse or a yoke of oxen; they have their worth; but who shall gauge the worth of a worthy friend?

  32. And having now a test to gauge other human beings he uses their need as a stepping-stone to provide himself with good and to avoid evil.

  33. VI Again, in reference to the test to be applied, if we would gauge the qualifications of a friend worth the winning, the following remarks of Socrates could not fail, I think, to prove instructive.

  34. The gauge of this was his power, and the amounts he could command in an emergency.

  35. One may well gauge his advance in selfishness, worldliness, and sin by his loss of this annual susceptibility, by the failure of this sweet appeal to touch his heart.

  36. Before the little narrow gauge engines of the Denver, South Park and Pacific with their trains of baby cars went thundering up through the canyons, reaching out for Leadville, the trouting in the Platte was prime.

  37. De Quincey would make a martyr of Judas; looked at from the De Quincey stand-point, Judas was a broad-gauge man.

  38. Her earnestness to read the hidden history of others was the gauge of her own emotion.

  39. I dare not peep over this parapet, To gauge with glance the roaring gulf below, The depths of sin to which I had descended, Had not these me against myself defended.

  40. It was much cheaper for the lumber concerns to sail the logs down the lake if they could, than to load them on the narrow gauge railroad and pay freight to Culberton.

  41. Due to the different gauge tracks in use by the several railroads connecting Chicago and New York, the continuous passage of a car from one city to the other was impossible.

  42. But that size in pictures is no test of conceptive artistic genius needs no demonstration, though it may be conceded to be a gauge of executive ability.

  43. The road, which in reaching White Pass summit will have a maximum gradient of a little more than five per cent, is of narrow-gauge construction, solidly supported on dressed ties brought from the forests of Oregon.

  44. If we take the production per acre in all the cereals as a gauge of interior development, then no European country west of Russia, not excepting Spain, is in a more backward state.

  45. Paulo), and the two branch lines of the same gauge from Cordeiro to Rio Claro; Laranja Azeda to S.

  46. That night we took the Narrow Gauge train, bound for Marshall Pass and the splendors of the Continental Divide.

  47. She would show Mrs. Wentworth that she could not gauge her so easily as she fancied.

  48. For it is only by looking back that Youth can gauge the steps by which it has climbed.

  49. The next second he had taken the girl's hand, and holding it with a touch that would not have crumpled a butterfly's wings, he was taking a flitting gauge of her pulse.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gauge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adjust; amplitude; appraise; appreciate; area; assay; assess; barometer; body; breadth; bulk; calculate; caliber; calibrate; call; canon; catalog; check; class; classify; compute; consider; criterion; degree; depth; dial; diameter; dimension; divide; estimate; estimation; evaluate; expanse; expansion; extension; extent; factor; fathom; figure; gauge; girth; grade; graduate; greatness; group; guess; height; identify; indicator; instrument; largeness; length; magnitude; make; mark; mass; match; measure; measurement; mete; meter; model; norm; pace; parameter; pattern; plumb; prize; probe; proportion; quantity; radius; range; rank; rate; reach; reading; reckon; regard; rule; scale; scope; screen; sift; size; sort; sound; span; spread; standard; step; survey; test; touchstone; type; value; view; volume; weigh; width; winnow; yardstick