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Example sentences for "grooves"

Lexicographically close words:
grooms; groomsman; groomsmen; groove; grooved; grooving; grope; groped; groper; gropes
  1. The second and third grooves are represented with the ridge connecting them, and the rod of cells running backwards for a short distance.

  2. Section through the ridge connecting the second and third grooves of the head-kidney of an embryo slightly younger than that from which Series B was taken.

  3. Toledo, Ohio, has metal grooves in the back which hold the magazine.

  4. The grooves in which the plough moves upon the face of an old-style cutting-press.

  5. Making grooves in the back of a book with a saw to receive strings or bands.

  6. Here, if we were to conduct scientific research always in the same grooves and according to the same formulae, we should immediately encounter symbolism and relativity.

  7. Instinct, with us who have evolved along the grooves of intelligence, has remained too weak to be sufficient for us.

  8. This organ is large and strong, but flattened at the sides; it is of a bluish colour, with three grooves and four ridges of an orange colour.

  9. Once in a while Miss Rachael Van Nicht slid a brief remark into the grooves which her brother channelled out.

  10. There was dust in the grooves of the heavy tarnished gilt frame.

  11. When all the grooves have been cut, slip the shelves into them one by one, and nail them to the side-pieces.

  12. Narrow strips of wood may be nailed along the shelves as substitutes for the grooves if you wish, but the work required to plane up the strips will amount to about as much, and they do not present as neat an appearance.

  13. The Gouge= is a chisel with a curved section, its use being for cutting grooves and curvatures in a piece of work where the chisel cannot be employed.

  14. These grooves are cut with a chisel, and should be made V-shaped as shown.

  15. By this force all angular and projecting points were broken off, and fragments of hard stone, frozen into the lower surface of the ice, had power to scoop out grooves in the subjacent solid rock.

  16. A] It is ascertained that hard stones, frozen into a moving mass of ice, and pushed along under the pressure of that mass, scoop out long rectilinear furrows or grooves parallel to each other on the subjacent solid rock.

  17. The summits of several of these masses are detached from the adjoining hill, in which case the grooves pass all round them, facing towards all points of the compass, as if they had once formed rocky islets near the shore.

  18. The floating houses are usually enclosed with teak boards standing up endwise, and permanently fixed into grooves above and below.

  19. The relative motion of the faces of contact of the ridges and grooves is a rotatory sliding or grinding motion, about the line of contact of the pitch-surfaces as an instantaneous axis.

  20. One of those consists in forming the rim of each wheel into a series of alternate ridges and grooves parallel to the plane of rotation; it is applicable to cylindrical and bevel wheels, but not to skew-bevel wheels.

  21. This mallet was scored with grooves of different finenesses, those on one side being wide enough to receive a small pack-thread, the size of the grooves diminishing by degrees till those on the last side were fine as the finest silk.

  22. The hammer-block, a, weighing four tons, is guided in its ascent and fall by grooves in two massive uprights, which hold the whole together.

  23. When the gun is fired, the button is forced into the cone, and expands the lead, which thus fills up the grooves and gives a spiral direction to the bullet.

  24. There are also long, shallow grooves in the floor, a wide one near the west wall, three narrow ones parallel to that, and a short cross groove, all probably the places of beams which supported the wooden chamber.

  25. These ruinous masses, and the deep glacial grooves that flute the sides of the mountain, show that it has been considerably lowered and wasted by ice; how much we have no sure means of knowing.

  26. The two anterior mandibular teeth are received into pits in the premaxilla; but the canines pass into grooves (which may be converted into fossae) situated at the junction of the premaxilla and maxilla.

  27. So that it will run into any of the grooves formed for the bee-frames; but made to fit close to the box at the end, by means of a slip of wood, C C, fig.

  28. The use of this spindle being, to draw in and out of the grooves the fifteen bee-frames when required.

  29. Thus, then, when a swarm of bees has been introduced into this box, the bees have to build their combs within the fifteen bee-frames, or whatever number may have been run into the grooves for that purpose.

  30. The rifling consists of narrow grooves and bands, 45 of each.

  31. The dimpling grooves in his cheeks did not escape tante-gra'mère's black eyes.

  32. Grooves and gutters are frequently found in the bone underlying the dilated vessels.

  33. Tendons which run in grooves may be displaced as a result of rupture of the confining sheath.

  34. In hinge-joints such as the knee and elbow, the influence of movement is shown by a series of parallel grooves corresponding to the lines of friction (Fig.

  35. The hard covering is employed to enable the bullet to take the grooves in the rifle, and to prevent it stripping as it passes through the barrel.

  36. When all the slab has been cut into bars, the wire and rod are next put into the grooves at right angles to the bars and again pulled through, thus dividing the bars into cubical cakes.

  37. They should have a strong iron rail all round the top, covered with leather, with convenient grooves to receive the barrels of the guns, as they rest in front, ready to either hand.

  38. The platform has a double bottom, the lower one with grooves; the upper consists simply of boards, with grooves through it to allow the must to run through.

  39. This can be easily done by passing the bunches rapidly over a grooved board, made somewhat in the form of a common washboard, only the grooves should be round at the bottom and the edges on top.

  40. The must runs off through grooves to the lower side, where it is let off by a spout.

  41. Life has flowed like water down this winding stair, and, waterlike, has left these smooth-worn grooves behind it.

  42. A tale which may startle the reader out of his usual grooves of thought, and shocks him into seriousness, plays the part of the alterative and tonic in medicine, bitter to the taste but bracing in the result.

  43. We say that the mind tends to run in grooves of thought.

  44. Ordnance Board, for instance, believed the conversion simply involved cutting grooves in the bore, right at the forts or arsenals where the guns were.

  45. Rifling grooves were cleaned with a moist sponge, and sometimes oiled with another sponge.

  46. A 1542 barrel at Woolwich has six fine spiral grooves in the bore.

  47. This gun was rifled with a large number of grooves and fired lead-coated projectiles.

  48. The Cavelli gun had two spiral grooves into which fitted the 1/4-inch projecting lugs of a long projectile (fig.

  49. G, and it will be observed that the grooves do not extend clear to the edge of the bearing, but stop about a quarter of an inch from that point.

  50. The tool used is a round-nosed chisel, the effort being made to cut the grooves of uniform depth and having smooth sides.

  51. Grooves are very helpful in insuring uniform distribution of oil over the entire width of bearing and at the same time act as reservoirs to retain a supply of oil.

  52. The piston rings should be taken out of the piston grooves and all carbon deposits removed from the inside of the ring and the bottom of the groove.

  53. When a larger valve stem is to be supported, the adjusting nut F, is screwed out which increases the size of the grooves and permits the balls, C, to spread out and allow the larger stem to be inserted.

  54. The set of connecting rods that work in the central grooves are provided with medium-length shoes and actuate the pistons in cylinders numbers 3, 6, and 9.

  55. The depth of these will vary according to the amount of time the cylinder was without lubrication, and if the grooves are very deep the only remedy is to purchase a new member.

  56. Care should be taken not to cut the grooves too deeply, as this will seriously reduce the strength of the bearing bushing.

  57. It is not always necessary to use the guiding strips of metal when replacing rings as it is often possible, by putting the rings on the piston a little askew and maneuvering them to pass the grooves without springing the ring into them.

  58. Grooves and crevices in walls harbor mites, lice, and disease.

  59. These roosts are removable, being set in grooves cut into the wooden brackets which hold them.


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