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Example sentences for "index"

Lexicographically close words:
indetermination; indeterminism; indeuor; indeuour; indeuoured; indexed; indexes; indexing; indi; indiarubber
  1. Between the rust and the soreness of his index finger it was a most difficult operation to open it.

  2. But the impact of the missiles on a rock so highly impregnated with minerals caused sparks to fly, and Jenks saw that the Dyaks would obtain by this means a most dangerous index of their faulty practice.

  3. The manners of a gentleman are the index of his soul.

  4. With a Biographical Sketch, Notes, Index to Titles and First Lines, a Portrait, and an engraving of Whittier's Amesbury Home.

  5. The present enlargement of text equals three hundred and fifty pages of the previous edition, and the index is increased with upwards of ten thousand lines.

  6. Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

  7. Then her brows wrinkled in thought; the sequence was an index to character which I could not but notice.

  8. What they can't get into their heads is that the names in an index of periodicals represent needs as widely varied as the names in a city directory.

  9. If the stomach is obstinate, use the index finger to excite vomiting.

  10. Appetite is the index as to the quantity of food that should be taken to replace the loss by waste.

  11. The above specifications are given as a general index of the work.

  12. Classified Index of Advertisements Published in the Present Number of the Scientific American, Architects and Builders Edition.

  13. Children, with few exceptions, are an index to the parents, and the foregoing little incident goes far to illustrate the general feeling in Brigham City after the burning.

  14. The manners are not the index to inner depths,--the outward expression of the noble, the awful, or the tender.

  15. Preterites and participles he constantly confounds, and registers this class of blunders for ever by the cast-iron index of rhymes that never can mend.

  16. In the index, entries divided by page markers were joined into single entries where possible, and the formatting of the index was regularized (e.

  17. Strike the extended index finger of the right hand several times upon that of the left.

  18. Place the index or second finger of the right hand on each side of the left index finger to imitate riding a horse.

  19. Point the extended index forward and upward before the chest, then place the spread fingers of the left hand around the index, but at a short distance behind it, all pointing the same direction.

  20. Left hand raised slightly about height of nipple, three fingers closed; index and thumb holding tip of index of right hand.

  21. The index and second fingers of the right hand are placed astraddle the extended forefinger of the left.

  22. Right index placed horizontally across fingers of left hand in front, about the middle joint--pallisaded.

  23. Pass the widely separated thumb and index of the right hand over the lower leg, from just below the knee nearly down to the heel.

  24. Deaf-mute signs: The French deaf-mutes add to the straddling of the index the motion of a trot.

  25. I must look in my Index rerum et hominum.

  26. Encke's comet, above all, has served as an index to much curious information, and it may be hoped that its function in that respect is by no means at an end.

  27. Here, indeed, was an undoubted case of atmospheric diffusion; but here, also, was a safe index to the extent of its occurrence.

  28. Moreover, intensity of light is perceived to be a very imperfect index to real magnitude.

  29. A list of Luther’s writings with the volumes in which they occur in the last two editions, as well as a detailed index of subjects and names at the end of the sixth volume, will facilitate the use of this work.

  30. The chapter arrangement is good, the index satisfactory, and the book is altogether one which the practical chemist should keep as accessible to his crucibles and filter paper.

  31. To this end, every encouragement has been given that well-chosen examples, carefully executed plates and diagrams, and an exhaustive index can supply.

  32. In arrangement it is a commendable work, and its value is increased by the index which brings the little volume to a close.

  33. The Congregation of the Index examines books and forbids those which are false and immoral.

  34. The Congregation of the Index was established by St. Pius V.

  35. The continuation of Commons' index number of freight rates to date, seemed inadvisable on account of the changes in traffic conditions which have taken place.

  36. Rejecting Commons' particular index number by reason of its inherent defects does not, however, lessen the desirability of choosing some other combination of rates which may be used as a standard for measurement of rate changes year by year.

  37. Yet the selection of such an index number is open to all the difficulties attaching to a similar index number of prices.

  38. The latter mode of approaching the question, on the other hand, would correspond to an index number of prices, weighted according to the volume of consumption.

  39. This rate index is simply the average of the actual published rates for a number of specific commodities between certain given points.

  40. Revenue per ton mile in index to the Senate (Elkins) Committee Hearings, 1905, vol.

  41. Duplicate copied from a card in the Chicago Publicity Bureau's index of newspapers.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "index" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acknowledgment; analyze; argument; aroma; arrange; arrow; assort; attribute; back; badge; ban; banner; bibliography; blaze; book; brand; cachet; calendar; calibrate; cartography; carve; cast; catalog; catchword; census; chalk; character; characteristic; chart; chorography; chronicle; class; classify; clue; code; codify; colophon; components; composition; concordance; configuration; constituent; content; contents; contraband; cut; dedication; denial; device; differential; digest; digit; direction; directory; divide; division; docket; earmark; element; elements; embargo; engrave; enroll; enter; enumerate; equation; errata; evidence; exclusion; feature; figure; file; finger; fist; flavor; flyleaf; folio; formula; gesture; glimmer; glimmering; globe; grade; grave; group; guide; guidebook; gust; guts; hallmark; hand; handbook; harmony; head; hint; idiosyncrasy; image; impanel; implication; impress; impression; imprint; incise; index; indication; indicator; individualism; ingredient; inhibition; injunction; inkling; innards; innuendo; inscribe; inscription; insert; insides; insignia; insinuation; interdict; intimation; introduction; inventory; items; itinerary; jot; keynote; kick; latitude; law; lead; leaf; legend; lineaments; list; log; longitude; look; makeup; mannerism; map; mark; marking; measure; meridian; minute; mold; mould; moulder; mouldy; nature; needle; nod; note; nudge; odor; order; page; parallel; part; particularity; parts; peculiarity; picture; pigeonhole; place; pointer; poll; polyglot; post; preface; prevention; program; projection; prompt; property; proscription; quality; range; rank; rate; record; recto; refusal; register; rejection; representation; representative; repression; roll; savor; scale; scent; schedule; score; seal; shape; sign; signal; signature; signboard; significant; signpost; singularity; smack; sort; specialty; spoor; stamp; statute; subdivide; subdivision; subtitle; suggestion; suppression; suspicion; symptom; table; taboo; tabulate; tail; taint; tally; tang; tape; taste; telltale; text; thumb; title; token; topographer; topography; track; trait; trick; type; verso; whisper; whole; wink; write; zoning