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Example sentences for "lengthwise"

Lexicographically close words:
lengthening; lengthens; lengthily; lengths; lengthways; lengthy; lengua; lenguas; leniency; lenient
  1. This is due to the wasp being able to fold its wing lengthwise like a fan.

  2. Still they have considerable powers of stinging, and fold their wings lengthwise when at rest like their larger relatives.

  3. Palakul ang ibátak sa káhuy, Split the wood lengthwise with an axe.

  4. A; c1] split a fish lengthwise to dry it.

  5. A; a] {1} tear leaves or thin sheets lengthwise into strips.

  6. Now you take your pair of overalls and straddle the legs across the lengthwise rope until it comes to the cross rope around the lower end.

  7. Well, you put all your things down on a piece of canvas or something, and you lash it tight with a rope, making a bundle about twice as long as it is wide, so that it will lie lengthwise on your back.

  8. The patch hemmed to the material] Crease the material on which the patch is to be laid lengthwise and crosswise through the tear.

  9. Crease it lengthwise so that one edge comes slightly below the other.

  10. The padding should be worked lengthwise on the design and the satin-stitch in the opposite direction.

  11. The cuts should be made lengthwise and crosswise, right to the tracing thread.

  12. The threads running lengthwise must be the stronger, as they have more strain on them.

  13. The children are taught to fold a heavy piece of drawing paper lengthwise and draw half a design so that the centre of it is on the fold of the paper.

  14. Only one half of the garment is necessary for a pattern, as the material is doubled or folded lengthwise (Figure 76).

  15. The threads are crossed lengthwise and crosswise and the stitches taken to gather the threads in the centre.

  16. Valves of the capsule bearing the several-seeded placentae on their middle; after opening, each valve as it dries folds together lengthwise firmly, projecting the seeds.

  17. Buds conical, the coverings formed of the successive pairs of stipules, each pair enveloping the leaf next above, which is folded lengthwise and applied straight against the side of the next stipular sheath, and so on.

  18. Spike nearly cylindrical, more or less compound, green; bristles few, longer than the spikelets; flower striate lengthwise and dotted.

  19. Pod with one or both the sutures turned in, sometimes dividing the cell lengthwise into two.

  20. Each stamen is furnished with an anther with two cells, which open lengthwise by their lower part; and each terminates in a sort of crest, pointing upwards.

  21. They stretched mempak in this way from side to side as they danced, and from end to end, lengthwise and crosswise; then they danced under it.

  22. Olelbis said: "I want to lay something lengthwise on each side of the door.

  23. He saw that some threads go from left to right (woof), others lengthwise (the warp).

  24. He then would cut through the bark lengthwise from one circular cut to the other.

  25. He then laid other poles lengthwise from ridge pole to the edge of the frames.

  26. He had slept all this time on a bed made of poles laid lengthwise and thickly covered with the skins of goats and rabbits.

  27. He was lucky enough to find a tree of this kind whose bole had been split lengthwise by the falling of an old rotten tree near it.

  28. Powdered sugar Remove the skins from the bananas, scrape them, and cut them once lengthwise and once crosswise.

  29. If it is not squeezed into the glass, it should be cut into quarters or eighths lengthwise and then cut across so that small triangular pieces are formed.

  30. Then the two raised Shibli Bagarag from the rock, and reclined him lengthwise under the wings of Koorookh, and Noorna stretched herself there beside him with one arm about his neck, the fair head of the youth on her bosom.

  31. Warm as new milk from the full udders were the waters of that sea, and figures of fair women stretched lengthwise with the current, and lifted a head as they rushed rolling by.

  32. Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of the morning-glory.

  33. To saw (wood) lengthwise of the grain or fiber.

  34. A clamp for holding a locomotive frame to the boiler while allowing lengthwise motion.

  35. In other words, they are like flat, rectangular plates standing on edge and radiating lengthwise from the center of the tree.

  36. A spike knot is one sawn in a lengthwise position.

  37. The board will warp only sidewise; lengthwise it remains straight unless the treatment is very severe.

  38. These spores send out long threads or filaments which run thru the cells lengthwise and also pierce them in all directions, soon forming a network in the wood called the mycelium.

  39. Lengthwise of this oblong are drawn six lines, with seven spaces between.

  40. The Indian makes his dugout by first hewing it roughly into the shape of a boat, then making crosswise cuts inside of the trunk about a foot apart and splitting the wood lengthwise between these cuts until well hollowed out.

  41. A two-foot section of dead and dry bamboo is first split lengthwise and in one piece, a small area of the stringy tissue lining of the tube is splintered and picked until quite loose (Fig.

  42. The Composer now directed that the new staves to be drawn on the silicon slate should run lengthwise and should cover every page of it.

  43. A plain old table was standing lengthwise of the room, the windows were hung with shawls, and a worn hickory chair stood with arms wide-spread to seize its victim.

  44. The roosts are thirty-four inches above the floor, and run lengthwise of the house.

  45. There are seven on the bottom row placed alternately in a lengthwise and crosswise manner, and six above.

  46. To make up the tump line pack proceed as follows:--the blanket or shelter cloth is spread out and the thongs laid lengthwise about a foot from either edge--the blanket is then folded inward and across the thongs.

  47. To either end of this is attached the shoulder straps consisting of double thicknesses of ten ounce canvas thirty-six by six inches and folded lengthwise and cut to taper from the yoke end.

  48. Any blanket combination can be made into a serviceable sleeping bag by folding lengthwise and securing one end and three-fourths of one side by blanket pins or by sewing.

  49. It is composed of a piece of ten ounce canvas of say twelve inch length and eight inches wide which is folded lengthwise making it twelve by four inches and is padded by felt or cotton.

  50. Fold this strip lengthwise in the middle and baste with fine running stitches one inch from the fold to hold the fold flat.

  51. Fold lengthwise through the middle and gather the raw edges together a little less than one-quarter of an inch from the edge.

  52. A bias strip about eight inches wide and long enough to reach around the crown, plus three or four inches, should be joined on the lengthwise thread of the material.

  53. Lay pattern flat on smooth side of buckram, lengthwise of the material to take advantage of the natural roll.

  54. Fold this velvet through center lengthwise and stick pins every three inches through edge of fold at right angles to edge and close to edge.

  55. Each piece is folded lengthwise of the material, and this fold is fastened to a wire which has been previously wound with maline.

  56. While the root is met with in commerce in its entire state, it is more frequently in broken pieces or in lengthwise slices, the edges of which are turned inward.

  57. It is generally cut into lengthwise slices before drying.

  58. It is wrinkled lengthwise and also transversely and has a knotty head.

  59. As found in commerce it consists of lengthwise or crosswise pieces from 1 to 6 inches in length and about three-fourths of an inch in thickness.

  60. Then start at one side and run this double piece lengthwise of your garden or crosswise of the 1x4 in.

  61. The dried root is grayish brown on the outside, the bark wrinkled lengthwise and sometimes spirally twisted.

  62. Owing to the interlacing habit of the rootlets, much dirt adheres to the root, but it should be well cleaned, cut into transverse or lengthwise slices, and carefully dried in the shade.

  63. In commerce it usually occurs in transverse or lengthwise slices, the outside a yellowish brown and finely wrinkled lengthwise and thickly encircled with lighter colored ridges.

  64. As found in commerce, elecampane is usually in transverse or lengthwise slices, light yellow or grayish and fleshy internally, dotted with numerous shining resin cells, and with overlapping brown or wrinkled bark.

  65. From head to tail,' for the nymph-cuticle splits lengthwise down the back, and the head and thorax of the imago are freed from it (fig.

  66. Manure carriers and litter carriers have a continuous track that runs along over the manure gutters and overhead lengthwise of the feed alleys.

  67. A tool box with a high lengthwise partition in the middle and a handle in the middle of the top of the partition is the handiest tool box ever used on a farm.

  68. During the muddy season the roads get worked up into ruts and mire holes, which, if taken in time, may be filled by running lengthwise of the road with the drag when the earth is still soft.

  69. Pare, and cut into lengthwise strips; cover with boiling water, and stew twenty minutes.

  70. When done, rub off the skins; split the beets lengthwise and lay upon a hot dish.

  71. Pare, cut into lengthwise slices, more than a quarter of an inch thick, and lay for half an hour in ice-water.

  72. Boil tender in hot, salted water; scrape, slice lengthwise when they are nearly cold; flour all over, and fry in salted lard or dripping.

  73. After closing the opening, apply more flux to the work and run the hot iron lengthwise to smooth the job.

  74. The other bar is heated to a forging temperature and then slit open in a lengthwise direction so that the V-shaped opening which is formed will just receive the pointed edge of the first piece.


  75. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lengthwise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    along; endways; evenly; flat; flush; lengthwise; level