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Example sentences for "grids"

Lexicographically close words:
griddles; griding; gridiron; gridironed; gridirons; griechischen; grief; griefe; griefes; griefs
  1. This scheme will give the grids a negative bias of about 1 volt.

  2. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together.

  3. As my grip upon him made audiphone contact, his agonized scream rattled the diaphragms of my ear-grids with horrible, deafening intensity.

  4. They tried to swing their grids upward, but could not get them vertical to reach us.

  5. And Tommy's fighting ships were subject to the same rifle fire against their propelling grids that had defeated the fleet from Rahn.

  6. He aimed at no man, but the propelling grids were large.

  7. One by one, Tommy smashed their crystal grids and watched them sinking unsteadily toward the towers of the city.

  8. All these had to be dug out about two feet below their existing level, making them about seven feet deep, and boarded with trench grids from end to end, which entailed an enormous amount of work.

  9. The collar moves over the internal resistance grids (located within the armature spider), thus gradually reducing their value until they are cut out.

  10. Alternate grids are joined to the poles of a charging battery or generator, those connected to the positive pole being converted into peroxide of lead and the others into spongy lead.

  11. Electrical Power Storage Company is illustrated in figure 21, and consists of a glass or teak box containing two sets of leaden grids perforated with holes, which are primed with the paste and steeped in dilute sulphuric acid.

  12. Shrubs and trees planted within the grids are protected by the straw until they take root.

  13. Beijing will intensify efforts to stimulate growth through spending on infrastructure - such as water control and power grids - and poverty relief and through rural tax reform aimed at eliminating arbitrary local levies on farmers.

  14. It had two lifeboat blisters, and there were emergency rockets for landings where no landing-grids existed.

  15. They represented a great empire, all of whose landing-grids were safely controlled, and though there was disaffection everywhere there was no reason to suspect rebellion at operations in space.

  16. The gas passes from the holder to a chamber L under grids packed with purifying material, through which it passes to the outlet of the purifier and thence to the service-pipe.

  17. The grids should be capable of being lifted out for cleaning.

  18. The spongy lead of the negatives swells and bulges out and makes very poor contact with the grids as a battery becomes discharged.

  19. Once this material becomes bulged nothing but pressing will put it back where it belongs, and until it is pressed back into the grids the plates are in a poor condition for service.

  20. The spongy lead must make good contact with the grids if the battery is to have a long life and give good service.

  21. The ribs of the grids not arranged at right angles but are arranged as shown in Fig.

  22. I felt Snap clamping the grids on my ears.

  23. Our footfalls echoed on the metal grids as we hurried along.

  24. He put the little grids against his ears.

  25. As the cotton is fed to the machine, the saws seize it and strip the cotton from the seeds, which fall through grids placed below the saws.

  26. Grotesquely distorted, blurred with tube-hum and interference crackle, they roared in my ear-grids so loudly that I saw the nearby guard turn his head as though startled.

  27. Through virtual reality, movement in three-dimensional grids over hundreds of square kilometers, offer precise location and movement control, both during day and night in conditions of unprecedented confidence.

  28. This damage goes beyond the loss of power grids and other easily identifiable industrial targeting sets.

  29. The grids would have been up, and any Throg ship venturing into Warlock's amber-tinted sky would abruptly cease to be.

  30. They need only stake out their new-found world and get the grids assembled on its surface; then that planet would be locked to the beetles.

  31. The passing of the stock over the transverse Grids in the Cleaning Trunk at a low velocity provides an efficient means for removing this dirt and leaf.

  32. The cotton passes over Transverse Grids A and the leaf and dirt drop between the Grids into a series of compartments B, which are automatically cleaned out by air draft from a Fan.

  33. The dirt and leaf which collect on this board are liable to fill up the grids if not regularly removed.

  34. In the illustration one of these doors is shown down, and the sheet iron Grids are plainly visible.

  35. The grids are made from an alloy of lead and antimony; hard lead straps which are burned together, are used for joining the plates.

  36. A storage cell consists of plates or of grids in an electrolyte, of such a character that the electrical energy supplied to it is converted into chemical energy (a process called charging).

  37. As my grip upon him made audiphone contact, his agonized scream rattled the diaphragms of my ear grids with horrible, deafening intensity.

  38. And an instrument room with signaling apparatus, senders, receivers, mirror-grids and audiphones of several varieties.

  39. Almost at once, the image glowed on the grids before us.

  40. Our footfall echoed on the metal grids as we hurried along.

  41. From the lower hull corridors our grids sounded with the tramping of running steps.

  42. Above the hull bulge I could see the grids of projectors mounted on the dome side, and the figures of men standing on the deck, peering down at us.

  43. The grids were swaying again with a message from Grantline.

  44. He saw the white-tiled laboratory, Ann's transmitter standing on a long table with new platinum grids piled by the dozen beside it, and the barrack rows of hospital beds.

  45. How could he answer her, without saying he had seen the grids in their skulls?

  46. From the lower hull-corridors our grids sounded with the tramping of running steps.

  47. Just has this sort of wire cage sticking from his helmet, like a loop, but made of two grids set at right angles to each other.

  48. He built the landing grids on Norlath and--Oh, you don't know!

  49. So with no moving parts to break down and no possibility of the failure of a power source--landing grids couldn't fail!

  50. So landing grids used local power--which did not have to be lifted--to heave ships out into space, and again used local power to draw them to ground again.

  51. Yet landing grids had no moving parts, and while they did have to be monstrous structures they actually drew power from planetary ionospheres.

  52. Their inborn indifference to heights made them the steel-construction men of the cosmos, and more than two-thirds of the landing grids in the whole galaxy had their coup-feather symbols on the key posts.

  53. There seemed to be glowing wires and grids and thread-like beams of light carrying current.

  54. Someone in the city wanted us; our names were appearing on the various mirror-grids publicly displayed throughout the city in the hope that we would answer.


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