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Example sentences for "grooving"

Lexicographically close words:
groomsman; groomsmen; groove; grooved; grooves; grope; groped; groper; gropes; groping
  1. This grooving began with the straight-sided daggers, but was afterwards applied to those of ogival form.

  2. The pin is then shifted to another hole in the dividing plate, and the operation of grooving is repeated till the whole number of riflings is completed.

  3. They probably thought this method was more effective or took up less time than notching, grooving or perforating stones, and attaching lines to them.

  4. Spinden states that these were evidently acquired by trade from natives of the northwest coast and that they have been cut by grooving and breaking.

  5. Boas' announcement of this at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was the first explanation of the sort of grooving or fluting of specimens found in northwestern America.

  6. These grooves were probably made as part of a process of grooving and battering down the intervening ridges in order to bring the specimen into a desired form.

  7. The bevel of the side edge suggests that the material for the celt was cut out by grooving and breaking as was the case in the Thompson River region, where the celts showed similar traces of grooving.

  8. This sort of thing goes on with mechanical instructions for raising the soft palate, making the diaphragm rigid, grooving the tongue, etc.

  9. You should practice a half hour each day grooving your tongue.

  10. But in a rifle the grooving is of the utmost importance; for velocity without accuracy is useless.

  11. A moment later he was grooving a white trail of foam out into the bay.

  12. Touching his feet lay Miss Van Arlen, bound as he had been bound, the mark of the gag still grooving her lips and cheek.

  13. Therein he discussed the movements of the glaciers, their moraines, their influence in grooving and rounding the rocks over which they travelled, and in producing the striations and roches moutonnees with which we are now so familiar.

  14. A joiner's plane for making grooves; a grooving plane.

  15. Ice plow, a large tool for grooving and cutting ice.

  16. The shell is marked with strong grooving and ridges which resemble sculptured figures.

  17. We have already seen that the motion of a shell is rotary as well as forward, this rotary motion being brought about by the joint instrumentality of the grooving of the bore of the gun and of the copper band on the shell.

  18. Ordinary engine lathes were eminently suitable for operations such as centring, rough and finished turning, grooving and external blending and turning copper bands.

  19. Grooving planes are the plough and dado grooving planes.

  20. As we have said before, the operation consists in so grooving the wall as to allow of the quarters widening sufficiently to relieve pressure on the parts within.

  21. Grooving the Wall in the Treatment of Sand-crack 97.

  22. The operation is best performed by first grooving a line to connect the points a and c (Fig.

  23. Immobilizing the Crack by Means of grooving the Wall.

  24. That fissures in the wall are undoubtedly a cause has been placed on record by the late Professor Walley, who noticed the appearance of these horny growths following upon the operation of grooving the wall.

  25. When the grooving is in a horizontal direction, a single incision is sufficient.

  26. Grooving the Wall Vertically or Horizontally, and Shoeing with a Bar Shoe.

  27. This case has an important bearing on the operation of grooving the wall, which operation we have several times in this work advocated for the relief of other diseases.

  28. It consisted in removing a portion of the wall by grooving and stripping it, and of excising the exposed cartilage by means of a sage-knife.

  29. The steel skate runs in the groove and supports the cutting blade similar to that in the plough plane, and provided a grooving plane of this type is of suitable width it may be used for making grooves for loose tongues.

  30. This plane carries a grooving iron on one side and a tongueing iron on the other side; thus with one plane both the tongue and the groove can be worked.

  31. The guide on the grooving plane thus works against each face of the joint, and this ensures correct jointing.

  32. Shutting joints which are required to be "light-tight," such as those used in photographic work, are generally formed by slightly grooving the frame and inserting a strip of black velvet.

  33. How many centuries of cutting and gouging, beveling and grooving were required to accomplish this, who can tell?

  34. In other words the mass of glacial ice is the grooving or smoothing plane, and the granite blocks, aided by the ice, become the many and diverse blades in this vast and irresistible tool.

  35. Thus, indenting or stamping, which can be learned at once, and grooving with a gouge, which is not more difficult, are capable of producing very beautiful decoration even if the worker goes no further.

  36. Flat or cavo-cutting of this kind as work is only a little advance on grooving with a gouge, but its results may be very much more artistic.

  37. It occupies a position between gouge grooving and cutting out the ground.

  38. Icebergs, also, and shore ice which is moved backwards and forwards by the waves, would produce a certain amount of such grooving and scratching.

  39. North Wales was soon recognised as an independent centre of a system which radiated from lofty Snowdon, through seven valleys, carrying with them large stones and grooving the rocks in their passage.

  40. Wilkes, relates, in laying in situ any metallic or other materials for street roadways, to completing the convenience thereof by roughening or grooving the surfaces.

  41. Sometimes the grooving is made in imitation of ordinary granite paving sets.

  42. You can have grooving for a door-frame done at the mill very cheaply and do the mortising yourself, or you can have the mortising done by machine at slight expense.

  43. Sometimes the grooving and mortising are combined,--an excellent way (Fig.

  44. By far the best way, as a practical matter, is to take the work to a mill and have the grooving done by machine, which is not expensive.

  45. Tonguing and grooving can be used in such cases, but flashing with lead is a simpler process.

  46. It is hardly worth while to work out the grooving or grooved and tongued joints by hand in these days when it can be so cheaply done by machinery.

  47. Two inheritances might have been grooving on the upper incisors and some reduction in amount of enamel on the sides of the cheek teeth.

  48. Iteration is also expressed in the subfamily Geomyinae by the development of grooving on the upper incisor and the formation of the basitemporal fossa.

  49. Three additional specializations lacking in the Thomomyini are the grooving on upper incisors, loss of anterior enamel plate in lower molars, and development of a basitemporal fossa on the mandible.

  50. The pattern of grooving is constant in each species and thus provides characters of taxonomic worth for grouping species into genera.

  51. Grooving of Incisors The incisors are smooth with no trace of a groove in the ancestral lineage.

  52. The grooving occurs always in small herbivorous mammals, and in some way may be related to feeding habits.

  53. Other dental specializations have occurred in the shape of the third upper molar and in the pattern of grooving in the upper incisor.

  54. Therefore, in pocket gophers, grooving may be an adaptation for feeding on fibrous or woody material.

  55. The functional significance of grooving has been debated on numerous occasions in the literature.

  56. It is seldom one encounters a case nowadays in which the "marking" is unsuitable, but a few estates may be using an old type of patterned roll on which the full diamond grooving is cut.

  57. Sheets are often seen in which the potential effect of the grooving is reduced to a comparatively flat pattern in place of the desired ridges.

  58. Similarly various types of grooving are cut in the intermediate rolls.


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