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Example sentences for "horseshoe"

Lexicographically close words:
horsemen; horseplay; horsepower; horseradish; horses; horseshoes; horsetails; horsethief; horsewhip; horsewhipped
  1. To study the magnetic field of the horseshoe magnet.

  2. It was seen in the study of the permanent horseshoe magnet, that the armature clung strongly to the magnet.

  3. To find whether a current can be generated with a horseshoe magnet and a coil of wire having an iron core.

  4. The horseshoe magnet is artificial, and it is called a permanent magnet, because it retains its strength for a long time, if properly cared for.

  5. When the armature of a horseshoe magnet is in place, most of the lines of magnetic induction crowd together and pass through it rather than push their way through the air.

  6. To secure the best possible quality of apparatus, the horseshoe magnets were made at Sheffield, England, especially for these sets.

  7. The strength of the horseshoe magnet would be greatly reduced if the lines of force were obliged to pass through two air spaces instead of one; in fact, if there were no yoke we should have simply two straight magnets.

  8. By riveting several thin bar or horseshoe magnets together, thick permanent magnets of considerable strength are made.

  9. In larger operations Mexican and American dollars are used, but away from the coast people decline to take even these, insisting upon silver cast in the form of a horseshoe and called "sice.

  10. It is made out of thin gold and silver paper, in the horseshoe ingot form of genuine "sice.

  11. He said: 'There's a right way to do everything--to pitch a horseshoe even.

  12. On the other side from him, just where the horseshoe curve began to draw in toward the choir loft, sat his son, Rollie.

  13. A horseshoe inserted in the pavement at Horseshoe Corner in the town, and renewed from time to time, is said to mark the place where a shoe was cast by John of Gaunt's horse.

  14. Reckoned I'd wait until I could get a bit of horseshoe iron for the wedge when the new stores come along.

  15. There was no horseshoe iron, but the bar of steel had recently been cut, and he thought the wedge had been forged out of its end.

  16. The result, according to witnesses was that the offending witch was "sick at harte" as long as the horseshoe was hot, and the sick person well when it had cooled.

  17. Having been informed that the other witch was causing the sickness, Wright had the ill person throw a red-hot horseshoe into her own urine.

  18. Just as they reached the Horseshoe Cloisters, the alarm-bell began to ring.

  19. In July, 1907, knowing that it was too late for eggs, I yet spent several days searching the precipitous wall which separates the upper Horseshoe Basin from the glacier which heads Thunder Creek.

  20. In July of the following year, work was carried on in the Upper Horseshoe Basin, a few miles further north.

  21. Even now they still retained the horseshoe curve, and could never swim straight ahead, but only spin round and round like whirligigs.

  22. During this year, Surveyor Parry had advanced into what was then supposed to be the horseshoe of Lake Torrens, and found in many places both fresh water and fairly available country.

  23. Lars Larssen took a deep breath before he leaned forward across the horseshoe desk to answer.

  24. Sit down, Matheson," said the shipowner calmly, when his antagonist had reached the horseshoe desk.

  25. He wound two coils of very fine insulated wire upon the ends of a piece of soft iron, bent in a horseshoe form.

  26. A permanent horseshoe magnet was then placed with poles very close to the ends of the iron in the coils.

  27. In its place Dunk had taken a horseshoe nail, pushed it through a fold of the trousers, and had caught the loop of the braces over the nail.

  28. With the increasing number of autos, and the decrease in horses, there is bound to be a corresponding decrease in horseshoe nails.

  29. What was that you said about horseshoe nails and bees?

  30. Under the huge leaning elms, which people who trust guide-books attribute to Wellington, I wandered until I came to a great red tower, with a horseshoe arch for entrance.

  31. Therefore it was close upon one o’clock when the noble old town rose in wild majesty before us on its granite, horseshoe hill, girdled by the dark gold bed of the Tagus.

  32. There was very little furniture, but what there was, was good, and of a graceful Moorish design which suited the wall decoration, and the horseshoe shape of the window.

  33. It might have a small gold horseshoe on each of the four corners, or it might have one big horseshoe surrounding the poem.

  34. I wonder if it would do any good to hang a horseshoe over the door.

  35. And this one of Jimmy's ought to have a horseshoe embroidered in gold thread on the corner of the satin.

  36. On this were piled all sorts of old shoes, gaiters, and slippers, bountifully contributed by the boys, and at the top of the pyramid a horseshoe contributed by Jimmy himself.

  37. The horseshoe is still nailed above the door as a protection against the troublesome spook, and the black art is still practised.

  38. A horseshoe magnet and armature taken from an electric bell provide the most essential parts of our home-made instrument in a cheap form.

  39. M is a horseshoe magnet fixed to a base, A.

  40. I watched the train for a look at who it might be was coming to Horseshoe for good fishing, and not a stranger got off.

  41. Nobody's taken a bass out of Horseshoe in years, and danged few pickerel.

  42. Probably since 1842 the Horseshoe has worked back beyond the position here assigned to it.

  43. The Horseshoe form, with the concavity facing downwards, is an obvious and necessary consequence of this action.

  44. From the Terrapin Tower, the adjacent arm of the Horseshoe is seen projected against the opposite one, midway down; to the imagination, therefore, is left the picturing of the gulf into which the cataract plunges.

  45. Here the Horseshoe Fall was the real excavator.

  46. The vast comparative erosive energy of the Horseshoe Fall comes strikingly into view when it and the American Fall are compared together.

  47. At the rate of excavation assigned to it by Sir Charles Lyell, namely, a foot a year, five thousand years or so will carry the Horseshoe Fall far higher than Goat Island.

  48. The American Fall is 168 feet high, a precipice cut down, not by itself, but by the Horseshoe Fall.

  49. The physics of the problem of excavation, which I made clear to my mind before quitting Niagara, are revealed by a close inspection of the present Horseshoe Fall.

  50. Goat Island ends in a sheer dry precipice, which connects the American and Horseshoe Falls.

  51. From all this it is evident that beauty is not absent from the Horseshoe Fall, but majesty is its chief attribute.

  52. The thunders of Niagara are formidable enough to those who really seek them at the base of the Horseshoe Fall; but on the banks of the river, and particularly above the fall, its silence, rather than its noise, is surprising.

  53. From this tower, at all hours of the day, and at some hours of the night, I watched and listened to the Horseshoe Fall.

  54. Turning to a photograph, he described, by reference to it, a feat which he had accomplished some time previously, and which had brought him almost under the green water of the Horseshoe Fall.

  55. Outline map of the Asulkan glacier in the Selkirks, a typical horseshoe glacier.

  56. The cutting off of a meander within the flood plain of a river yields a lake which is of horseshoe (ox-bow) outline and lies generally with low banks within a plain composed of river silt.

  57. In any case his scrutiny of those far regions was unavailing; for the Horseshoe Pool is on the Geinig, a tributary of the Aivron, and not visible from the hill-slopes along which they were now shooting.

  58. Indeed, his satisfaction as they now proceeded to walk along to the Horseshoe Pool was but natural in the circumstances.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horseshoe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    crescent; meniscus; semicircle