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Example sentences for "halving"

Lexicographically close words:
haltingly; halts; halve; halved; halves; halways; haly; halyard; halyards; ham
  1. Did the hog say anything more about halving my allowance?

  2. Ever since Lord Loudwater had bidden him inform Helena of his intention of halving her allowance he had been bitterly angered by this barefaced attempt to rob her and consequently her future husband.

  3. But in the event of any new developments, I should not admit that Lord Loudwater talked of halving your allowance, or that you quarrelled with him.

  4. And that halving of the allowance is the beginning of the whole business.

  5. A few days before he died he talked about halving my allowance.

  6. This copartnership doubled the advocate's hopes by the process of halving them.

  7. Where direct nuclear division occurs by constriction in the higher organisms, it does not result in the halving of hereditary units.

  8. The phenomena observed in the course of the division of the nucleus show beyond doubt that an exact halving of its substance is of the greatest importance.

  9. To the halving faculty--the Sense--this is true, and so we are compelled to correct our course of procedure.

  10. So that what really happens in mitosis in the splitting of the chromosomes is a precise halving of the series of individual granules of which each chromosome is constituted, or in other words each granule has reproduced itself.

  11. In fact this whole complicated system of indirect division is regarded by most biologists as a mechanism for bringing about the precise halving of the chromosomes.

  12. In the first case the halving had best be done before the sticks are fastened together.

  13. When the halving is at the ends of the pieces or at the end of one piece (Fig.

  14. The boats can be whittled from a piece of board on edge and fastened to the ends of the sticks by halving (Fig.

  15. I'm just as generous as you are when it comes to halving holes with an easy mark.

  16. He went to the left by a slight margin, halving the match by holes.

  17. Both were nicely on the green in two, and Wallace missed a putt for a three by a hair, while his opponent was lucky, running down in a long lag for four, halving it in bogy.

  18. The three-foot line= has its origin theoretically, and as a rule also actually, in a halving of the Alexandrine, and this is effected less frequently by the use of leonine than by cross rhyme.

  19. This metre may be regarded as having originally arisen by halving the eight-foot line, although only an isolated example of this, dating from about the middle of the thirteenth century, quoted above (p.

  20. Halving five we express the remainder by entering one of these curves, and carry the quotient, two, to the degree mark place.

  21. Halving again gives one in the next place, that of l-curves; and the work is complete.

  22. Pigeon holes or compartments in stationery cases, bookcases and writing bureaux are constructed in a similar manner, although the method of housing, or combined halving and housing, is to be preferred in some cases.

  23. If the halving joint is at an angle similar to the sketch shown at Fig.

  24. For example, we have mitre halving in Fig.

  25. Dovetailed Halving Joint" used for lengthening timber, and is also a favourite Manual Training model.

  26. The hinged bracket frame shows the application of the halving joint to bracket supports for this and similar purposes, such as brackets to support shelving, etc.

  27. This change of direction for cutting also applies to the bottom of the halving joint.

  28. Should the halving joint be used at the end of a piece of wood, as at Fig.

  29. Halving joints properly made and fitted should knock together with the weight of the clenched fist; the use of a heavy mallet or hammer will deface the work.

  30. The halving joint is used also for joining two pieces of wood at their ends, as, for instance, the corner of a frame, one half of this joint being shown at Fig.

  31. It is stronger than the halving joint, and, owing to its peculiar construction, requires little in the way of pegs, screws or nails to secure it in position.

  32. Halving is one of the simplest methods of connecting two pieces of timber, especially where it is desired to make frames and bracket supports for either inside or outside use.

  33. Tee Halving Joint" with a dovetail cut on the edge.

  34. Cross Halving Joint" where each piece runs through the other.

  35. The third halving was not worth sending to the Hospital.

  36. The first cause of the marked constrictions may be the formation of the latticed sagittal septum, which is found first in Octopyle, as halving the four gates of {685}Tetrapyle.

  37. All rings of the disk spirally convoluted, divided by four radial, perpendicularly crossed and zigzag shaped beams into four quadrants; the quarter rings of each quadrant halving the rings of each adjacent quarter.

  38. The quarter ring of each quadrant halving both neighbouring quarters.

  39. By ramification of this axial beam and reticular connection with the sagittal girdle arises the sagittal septum, which we found first in Octopyle, halving the four gates of Tetrapyle.

  40. This blasteth the vigour of all endeavours, and inclineth men to serve God only with hypocritical halving and reserves; and maketh men resolve to be no further religious, than stands with present, fleshly happiness.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "halving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ambiguity; ambivalence; bifurcation; branching; conjugation; dichotomy; division; doubling; dualism; duplication; duplicity; halving; irony; pairing; polarity; ramification; subdivision