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Example sentences for "large volume"

  • A large volume of facts is at our command which tend to prove that the Egyptians were in a high state of civilization before the Jews were known to history.

  • And this fact made him resign his mission and return home, and read his Bible with more care, which resulted in detecting hundreds of errors in the Holy Book, which he has published to the world in a large volume.

  • A large volume of scientific facts has been accumulated by scientists, showing that even our earth, one of the youngest of the planets, is at least several hundred thousand years old.

  • From a large volume of testimonies we will cite a few: The version of the Old Testament made under Ptolemy Philadelphus, 287 B.

  • To give full particulars of all the fights--they fought in the first relief of Lucknow--would be to fill a large volume.

  • This chapter could be extended to the dimensions of a large volume.

  • To go into all the fights that took place during that terrible retreat would fill a large volume.

  • Pasteur has shown the existence of these floating germs in the air by drawing a large volume of atmospheric air, by means of an aspirator, through a narrow tube obstructed by collodion wool.

  • It explodes with unparalleled violence by friction or percussion, or when strongly heated, or when touched with strong sulphuric acid; the metal is reduced, and a large volume of gaseous matter suddenly liberated.

  • There are so many methods adopted for preparing photographic collodion, that a large volume might be filled with notices of them.

  • The notes he has added are indeed of great use; but his refutations, which swell the work to a large volume, are of little or none at all, being often unsatisfactory, and sometimes impertinent.

  • Suffice it now to say, then, that whether it be the long threads or lines of cirrus which occur in the trade in the winter after a period of severe cold, following the interposition of a large volume of N.

  • Nor is the magnetic intensity on the eastern and middle portions of the Pacific, sufficient to produce such a concentration, in large volume, there.

  • I am not aware that it has since been found at so great an elevation, in so high a latitude, though it is undoubtedly elevated by the interposition of a large volume of N.

  • To recall all the humors and interesting happenings of those early billiard-days would be to fill a large volume.

  • A bare list of the interesting events of Mark Twain's life would fill a large volume.

  • It would not be a large volume, and he offered to let his Christian Science opponents share it with him, stating their side of the case.

  • And a large volume of trade was at once deflected from the sea route round Cape Horn.

  • The Great Northern--a great transcontinental trunk line--despite its sparsely settled western area, exchanges a large volume of through freight for the Pacific Coast for lumber and other bulky products carried east.

  • The general steepness of the gradation is low on eastern roads like the New York Central, with a large volume of traffic and easy operating conditions.

  • This was the first attempt to justify an advance in rates for a large volume of traffic on the ground that it did not contribute its proportionate share of earnings.

  • The communication between all the parts should be perfectly free, and the tubes should be nearly filled with reagents, so as to avoid having a large volume of air to compress before a pressure can be got up.

  • The apparatus as figured is not intended to be cooled to 0° C, so that it is put in as large a box as possible to gain the advantage of having a large volume of liquid.

  • The cyanide is washed away in a large volume of soft water, and the articles are kept under water till they are scratch-brushed.

  • The engine will labor heavily and run slowly with a large volume of steam blowing at the exhaust, the carbon points and cab lights will only show a dull red light.

  • It is used for storing a large volume of air for the purpose of promptly charging and recharging the brakes.

  • The adjustment of claims involves, usually, a large volume of correspondence, and requires a man of tact.

  • Charcoal may be used in this form of oven as with the temporary arrangement, or the heat may be secured from any form of burner or torch giving a large volume of flame.

  • The majority of those now in use operate by dropping small quantities of carbide into a large volume of water, allowing the generated gas to bubble up through the water before being collected above the surface.

  • The tank is automatically filled with water and when wanted, a large volume of water is suddenly discharged into the sewer, carrying with it the contents of the seat.

  • The flushing action is obtained from the use of a large volume of water.

  • Each time a closet is flushed, a large volume of water enters the stack and completely fills the pipe.

  • The combustion of the required amount of gas produces a large volume of carbonic acid gas which if allowed to remain in the room is not only deleterious but may be a positive danger to life.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "large volume" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    done tole; hundred times; large and; large army; large band; large birds; large bodies; large brick; large cities; large cloak; large district; large field; large flat; large income; large party; large picture; large quantities; large quantity; large square; large vessels; largely because; largely developed; largely employed; larger proportion; larger work; upon whom