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Example sentences for "joint"

Lexicographically close words:
joinery; joineth; joining; joinings; joins; jointed; jointer; jointing; jointly; joints
  1. Russia and higher nickel production through a joint venture with a Canadian firm.

  2. This agreement retained Bosnia's exterior border and created a joint multi-ethnic and democratic government.

  3. The Bosnians have been slow to form and install new joint institutions.

  4. In March 1994, Bosnia's Muslims and Croats reduced the number of warring factions from three to two by signing an agreement in Washington creating their joint Muslim/Croat Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

  5. The splice and joint of the end of Cable towards the shore and the end from the after tank was next made.

  6. A second binding was next rolled over the first in the same fashion, and extended a little way beyond it, and finally several layers of gutta percha were carefully laid over, and all round the joint by the agency of hot irons.

  7. A piece of copper wire was then attached by firm brazing, an inch or two beyond the joint on one side, tightly bound round until it reached to the same extent on the other side, and then was there firmly brazed on again.

  8. This, as at present advised, we do not intend should be done during our joint lives.

  9. You will see it stated in this manuscript that I, or rather we, had made up our minds not to make this history public during our joint lives.

  10. He left off the joint one day--the pudding another.

  11. Turner shrugged his shoulders and sat in silence, gnawing the middle joint of his thumb.

  12. John Turner bit the first joint of his thumb reflectively.

  13. The weak joint in the otherwise flawless armour of their patriotism is that they are apt to put the interests of the agrarian section before those of the country as a whole.

  14. Like other experiments of the kind, but after an even briefer interval, this joint control developed into an open rivalry.

  15. Under these circumstances, the French ministers did not consider it wise or opportune, at the moment, to encourage the proposals for associating the subjects of the two countries in the joint handling of economic enterprises.

  16. The evening came, and the Princess said to Fretillon, "Go to the best kitchen in the town and bring me a joint of good roast meat.

  17. It is true that the effect of the joint forces is the same when they act simultaneously, as if they had acted one after another, or by turns; and it is in this that the difference between mechanical and chemical laws consists.

  18. In some cases, a Kind is sufficiently identified by some one remarkable property: but most commonly several are required; each property considered singly, being a joint property of that and of other Kinds.

  19. In the early editions of this treatise, the joint probability arising from the sum of two independent probabilities was estimated in the following manner.

  20. Two screws should be used in each joint to reinforce the glue.

  21. The parts can be rolled and a lock joint made at a local tinshop, or the pieces shaped over a wood form and riveted.

  22. Black velvet is pasted in the rabbet of the door to insure a light-tight joint when the door is closed.

  23. The upper end of the upright is beveled off on both sides, to form a double-splayed joint with the crosspiece.

  24. The outside of the legs should be straight and parallel and the inside tapered so as to draw the joint together.

  25. Illustration: Trap Used as Ticket Holder] Joint for Cabinet Work In making a cabinet containing 56 drawers of various sizes, I used the method shown in the sketch for making the frame.

  26. The joint may be riveted, or, if taken to a tinshop, lock-seamed.

  27. A miter lap joint which is not so strong is shown in Fig.

  28. While it is not shown in the illustration, it is best to strengthen this joint with another piece of wood, cut to fit on the axle and securely attached to the spokes.

  29. Illustration: Clamp for Holding the Corner of a Frame While Gluing and Fastening the Mitered Joint] When a joint is ready to be glued, a piece of paper is placed on the block under the joint to keep it from sticking.

  30. How to Lock a Tenoned Joint A tenon placed in a blind mortise can be permanently fastened, when putting the joints together, by two wedges driven in the end grain of the wood.

  31. He was cold and overtired; the day's march had been a long one; his shoulders ached cruelly after carrying a heavy load, and every joint was sore.

  32. You mentioned that landlord and laborer had a joint interest in the soil, and that's undoubtedly right," he said.

  33. There are two joint stock banks (British North America and British Columbia), and three private banking houses.

  34. The storks were fast asleep, and he climbed on to the back of the father-stork and bound a silk cord round the joint of one of its wings, then he crept among its soft downy feathers and fell asleep.

  35. The Hazel-nut child flew through the air on the stork's back, and when he wanted to rest he bound his silk cord on to the joint of the bird's other wing, so that it could not fly any farther.

  36. With three others, Peter and I held a ruinous apartment of an old farm-house in joint tenancy, and my corner was divided from the rest, by a blanket suspended from a line.

  37. To the joint inquiries of the Jew and Mr. Brown, the deformed one gave satisfactory replies.

  38. It would then be only necessary to rule these off and transfer the balances to a joint account for the young couple.

  39. Thanks to him, boiled meats appeared frequently on the table, followed by an occasional joint of roast meat to afford a sufficiently varied bill of fare.

  40. The joint between the gunwale of the barge and the ship's side was made water-tight; the water was pumped out, and men and materials passed down through the shafts.

  41. As there was a vertical suspension rod at each joint of the main chains, there was a suspension rod hanging from each of the three groups of chains at about every five feet of the length of the bridge.

  42. The experiments were continued until thirty in all had been made, and the strongest form of joint was considered to have been arrived at.

  43. The failure of the valve was due, partly to the composition which was used to seal the joint where it opened, and partly to the material of which the valve consisted.

  44. At every fourth joint in the main chains one of the joint pins was made in two halves, with wedges inserted between them for adjusting the length of the main chains.

  45. Thus to every joint in each group of the main chains, or at intervals of about 5 feet, there was a suspending rod.

  46. Plans for the construction of yet another power station on the Danube River, as a joint venture with Bulgaria in the Cernavoda-Silistra area, were announced in the fall of 1971.

  47. The government has also discussed the possibility for joint exploration of offshore petroleum deposits in the Black Sea and elsewhere in the world with oil interests of various countries.

  48. As an initial move the Romanians in 1954 successfully negotiated the dissolution of the onerous joint Soviet-Romanian industrial concerns that had been used by the Soviets to drain the Romanian economy during the postwar years.

  49. Cooperation between the two states was also demonstrated in the joint construction of the Iron Gate hydroelectric station on the Danube (see ch.

  50. Rather than Romanian troops taking part in joint maneuvers of pact forces, participation has generally been limited to a small group of staff officers who attend the exercises as observers.

  51. The planning of mechanized farm operations, the allocation of equipment for specific purposes, and the timing and supervision of all operations are joint responsibilities of the section chief and the farm's chief engineer.

  52. In a joint communique the Communist Chinese and Romanian leaders emphasized the necessity of sovereign and equal relations among all communist states and parties.

  53. When the bill was presented it frightened him, but the proprietor, on being summoned, said that as such an extraordinary joint had been asked for, he had been compelled to buy a whole sheep to supply it.

  54. The chief joint obtainable here to be recommended is of course the mutton, as Cherbourg is noted for its pré-salé all over France; but beyond this the food is of the usual ordinary kind to be obtained in most French towns of this size.

  55. It is now a case of the Vierjahrzeiten's nose being put out of joint by its own child.

  56. When two bones forming a joint are knocked apart, it is called a dislocation, and the bones are said to be out of joint.

  57. The second sign is immediate interference with the motion of the joint and awkwardness in using the limb.

  58. The third sign is deformity of the joint,--it looks queer when compared with the same joint on the other side.

  59. After replacing the bones put the joint at rest with a large compress and bandage.

  60. The Poems by Two Brothers, which were almost entirely the work of Alfred and Charles, while displaying the differing qualities of each, were a joint production, the fruit of common reading and common enthusiasm.

  61. It was only after two years at Cambridge that Lushington's friendship with Tennyson began, and as joint members of the "Apostles'" Society they were thrown into close intercourse.

  62. My marriage took place in the autumn of 1872, and my husband, who already knew the Tennysons, was at once received into their intimacy, and their friendship was henceforth one of the greatest privileges of our joint life.

  63. He's got a joint on the other side of town called Bad Richard's.

  64. He hangs out in a joint across the street," said Monty.

  65. The vertical joint is slanted with the snow knife and tightly pressed together, the new block resting on the oblique side of the former.

  66. The joint prevents the shaft from being broken by the struggles of the animal.

  67. The inner boot of the women, unlike that of the men, is loose around the leg, coming as high as the knee joint behind, and in front carried up by a long, pointed flap nearly to the waist and there fastened to the breeches.

  68. Into the cavity at its top a walrus tusk is inserted and forms with it a ball and socket joint (igimang).

  69. The shaft and the joint are alike in both, only the knob for the teliqbing being absent.

  70. The joint is effected by two additional pieces on each side, a short stout one outside, a long thin one inside.


  71. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "joint" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abyss; accessory; accompanying; acid; aggregate; agreeing; amassed; ankle; appendage; arm; articulate; articulation; aspic; assembled; assimilated; associated; attendant; attending; barbecue; blended; bolt; bough; boundary; branch; breach; break; brothel; buckle; butt; button; canyon; cavity; cervix; chap; chasm; check; chimney; chink; clasp; cleft; clinch; clip; closure; coefficient; coincident; col; collateral; collected; collective; combined; combining; commensal; common; commotion; communal; communistic; compact; comprehensive; concerted; concomitant; concordant; concurrent; conglomerate; conjoint; conjugate; connection; conniving; consolidated; cooperative; coordinate; corporate; correlative; coupled; coupling; crack; cranny; crevasse; crevice; crib; cut; defile; dell; den; dike; ditch; dive; dovetail; draw; dump; eclectic; elbow; embrace; excavation; fault; fellow; fissure; flat; flaw; flesh; fleshpots; flume; forcemeat; fracture; furrow; fused; game; ganja; gap; gape; gash; gathered; general; gorge; grass; groove; gulch; gulf; gully; hand; hangout; harmonious; hash; hashish; hasp; hay; hell; hemp; hinge; hip; hitch; hole; hook; incision; inclusive; incorporated; integrated; interface; jam; jerky; joined; joining; joint; juncture; kava; knee; knotted; knuckle; lair; latch; leagued; leak; leg; limb; link; lobe; lock; marijuana; meat; meeting; member; merged; mince; miter; mixed; moat; mortise; mutual; nail; neck; notch; offshoot; one; opening; organ; packaged; paired; parallel; parasitic; pass; passage; peg; peyote; pin; pinion; pivot; poolroom; popular; pot; public; rabbet; ramification; ravine; reciprocal; reefer; related; rent; respective; rift; rime; rivet; roach; roast; runner; rupture; saprophytic; scarf; scion; scrapple; screw; seam; segment; sew; shoulder; simultaneous; sink; skewer; slit; slot; snap; social; socialistic; splice; split; spray; sprig; spur; stacked; staple; stew; stick; stitch; suture; switch; symbiotic; synchronous; synergistic; synthesized; tack; tail; tea; tenderloin; tendril; toggle; trench; twig; twin; union; united; uniting; valley; venison; void; wedge; weed; weld; wing; wrist; zipper


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    joint commission; joint committee; joint disease; joint meeting; joint resolution; joint session; joint stock