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Example sentences for "glued"

Lexicographically close words:
glozing; glucose; glucoside; glucosides; glue; glueing; glues; gluey; gluing; glum
  1. Sandy was keeping his eyes glued upon the swaying figure.

  2. It appeared at times to poor, impatient Sandy that they were having one of those ugly nightmares, where one's feet are glued to the ground, and all the while the peril plunges along toward the wretched dreamer.

  3. We each glued ourselves to the wall, and prostrated ourselves on the rainy wood-work of the veranda walk.

  4. With one eye glued to the lower interstice of the Venetian blind, I saw the quintet all bowing and bobbing to each other at this with a Judas politeness which was altogether charming to look at.

  5. What time it was the tramp did not know, but as he stood with his face glued to the window-pane he heard a clock in the cabin striking the hour of three.

  6. There was a face glued against the window-pane--a face that he did not see.

  7. This we cut loose, for it was glued fast.

  8. The spices had congealed and glued it to the sack-like shroud.

  9. Children, huddled into corners, heard that cry, and it glued them where they stood.

  10. He seemed glued to the wall, and the form all of a sudden seemed to contract into a tight-rope over a chasm.

  11. They came do that conclusion after they had soaked their persons in arnica and glued themselves together with poultices.

  12. A man with his nose glued on wrong side up, could hold the attention of an audience for hours, when any other man would seem tedious and uninteresting.

  13. When I held Anastasia between my arms in bed, her lips glued to mine, I told her, as in duty bound, that she did not trust in me enough to lie beside me with her clothes off.

  14. Our lips were glued together, and were not set apart till we came within ten paces of the ambassador's house, which I could have wished at ten leagues distance.

  15. I threw myself on her, and with my lips glued to hers I pressed her between my amorous arms, pending the moment of supreme bliss.

  16. We remained thus a quarter of an hour without speaking, our lips glued together in one long kiss.

  17. Later, it had been ingeniously and patiently glued together.

  18. But that once placid-eyed old cement seller stuck to the unoffending man he had so promptly and so gratuitously attacked, stuck to him as though he had been glued there with his own cement.

  19. The laps are glued to the inside and each one turned to the right.

  20. Here, as in the drawer of the pencil-box, the laps are glued to the ends of the cover, concentrating strength there and producing symmetry in construction.

  21. These pieces of paper can then be cut out and either glued to card-boards, or onto the herbarium sheet.

  22. The fruit body after being dried was cut into strips, glued upon a stretcher, and smoothed down with pumice stone (Asa Gray Bull.

  23. Defn: Thin canvas glued on the inside of panels to prevent shrinking, checking, etc.

  24. Defn: Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.

  25. Rawlins sprang to the periscope and glued his eye to it, swinging it around throughout the entire arc of its movement.

  26. For fully five minutes he remained with his eyes glued to the window.

  27. I crouched against the window, my ears glued to the glass.

  28. Billy, crouching with his gun at the ready and his eyes glued on a scarlet boss in the centre of the Hun's propeller, saw and heard the bullets stream smoking and cracking past and on their machine.

  29. The Little Butcher paid no further heed to him, but drove on at his top pace, with his head twisted to the right and his eyes glued on the slow swinging artillery machines.

  30. He was dimly conscious of her firing as she came, and he kept his own gun going, pumping bullets in a constant stream, his eye glued to the sights, his finger clenched about the trigger.

  31. Some of the men continued their talk in whispers, Blanky fumbled out and lit a cigarette, Dicky dropped on the bed beside the man with the book, who, through all the uproar, had kept his eyes glued to the magazine pages.

  32. He paid no heed; held hard and straight on his course, keeping his eye glued on the nearest machine and his sights dead on him, his fingers ready to start his guns at first sign of their seeing him.

  33. From two to three hundred of these eggs are glued on by the insect around the twig, by means of a tenacious waterproof cement, and are arranged with an accuracy of the most marvellous character, in a close spiral line upon the twig.

  34. How is the moth to make its way through the dense mass of fibres all glued together, which walls her in on every side?

  35. The structure of these horns is fibrous, as if they were composed of a mass of hairs glued together.

  36. The hair of their coat is glued together so as to form large scales, inserted in the skin in nearly the same way as the nails of a Man, and lapping one over the other, like the slates of a roof.

  37. But always in the watches the god of the Muckley came unseen and glued your eyes, as if with Teuch and Tasty, and while you slept--Up you woke with a start.

  38. He was only able to sign to them, because Californy's specialty had already done its work and glued his teeth together.

  39. As he watched, Mike was conscious of the fact that only he and Nicko were watching the proceedings, that M'Landa's face was not glued to the bars.

  40. A great silence fell over the watching prisoners in the cells, every eye glued on the priest and this beautiful girl.

  41. Gallardo, with his plain working-cape over one arm, remained near the barrier close to the ranks of his partisans, in disdainful immobility, believing that the whole plaza had their eyes glued on him.

  42. He smiled seraphically on seeing the bull-fighter, and advanced, dragging the little boys, his eyes glued upon him, taking no thought as to his feet.

  43. They glow like fire, and wheresoever she moves he keeps them glued on her.

  44. She doth not keep hers glued on him," said Sir Chris, "but looks away and holds her head up as if she would not see him.

  45. George, his red hair all rumpled up, and his long limbs thrust out towards the fire, spoke scarcely at all, but glued his little bloodshot eyes alternately on the faces of his companions, and only contributed an occasional chuckle.

  46. My eyes were literally glued to the spot.

  47. He glued on the feather which guided and steadied the missile in its flight, and he fastened the heads with metal obtained from the whites.

  48. Her lashes were glued to her cheeks, but she forced them open and turned to see how Jim was faring.

  49. Her eyes were glued upon the rider and her ears stilled to everything around her.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glued" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    close; fast; fastened; firm; fixed; jammed; secure; stuck; tight; wedged