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Lexicographically close words:
linen; linendraper; linens; liner; liners; linesman; linesmen; lineup; ling; linga
  1. Among the Mandáyas arrow shafts frequently have ornamental wavy lines and concentric circles incised along the length of the shaft, but this decoration has been observed among no other tribe that I know of in eastern Mindanáo.

  2. Lines of cotton yarn in alternating colors cover and adorn the seams and the oval-shaped opening for the neck, but are not found on the bottom of the jacket.

  3. It has, however, inwoven in the cloth, horizontal parallel lines of dark-blue yarn on the back and the upper part of the front.

  4. Alternating bands of red and black, with dividing lines of white, all running longitudinally along the warp, and inwoven, are the only effort at beauty of design.

  5. These dark-blue bands are set at intervals from each other and usually amount to from six to nine lines in number.

  6. The same bold lines may be noted in the early Needlepoint lace of France, which had not then become sufficiently sure of her capacity to develop a style of her own, and all show the Renaissance spirit.

  7. Very dainty stitchery was put in them, the stronger parts of the lines being in fine black silk, the finer and more distant being worked in human hair of various shades from black to brown.

  8. Various heraldic devices are frequently introduced, surrounded with elegant scroll designs, the whole being filled up with woven réseau, the lines of which are by no means regular, but are made to fill in the interstices.

  9. Looking at this little gem across a room, the effect is that of a charming old colour print, so tenderly are the lines of shading depicted.

  10. I told him such an act would make dark lines upon his aura which might not fade for several days.

  11. In truth," he said at length, "there be lines not wholly without merit.

  12. I do not think this is correct, as the two final lines are a threat to the other side.

  13. It is not often that fourteen lines contain so complete, so devastating a commentary.

  14. His spirit is positive and direct; only curved lines are lacking for him to be a geometer.

  15. There is much imitation of Camões, who, indeed, entered Brazilian literature as a powerful influence through these prosaic lines of Bento Teixeira.

  16. Perhaps it is one’s imagination that detects in his lines a certain all-pervading sadness,--a sadness that seems sister to serenity.

  17. The chaste virgins of Greece, as he announces in the lines preceding this virtual, if distinctly minor ars poetica, have fascinated his childhood enough.

  18. It is the twilight and the night that bring to her lines their more subjective moods; but even here, rarely do present emotions invade her.

  19. Like the epic poets, so they, in their verses, foreshadow the coming of the Romanticists some fifty years later; the spirits of the old world and the new contend in their lines as in their lives.

  20. We know that these lines are currents, or lines of force, for that force produces sensible effects, and we measure it by the movements of the needle.

  21. The lines shown upon the needle should bear the same proportion to its length as the trade-winds bear to that of the earth, measured from pole to pole, and if the needle had a globular form they would so appear.

  22. The dotted lines show the parallels of latitude, the dark lines the isothermal lines, or lines of equal annual average temperature.

  23. We know that these lines may be deflected by other magnetic bodies, and concentrated upon them.

  24. Although not the only cause, it has very much to do with the remarkable elevation of the isothermal lines over the Northern Atlantic, and upon Western Europe, as seen upon the map.

  25. The greatest southern depression of the magnetic equator is found where the lines of greatest intensity, and of no variation, are found; and at the more intense of these lines exists the greatest depression.

  26. Therefore, when the spirit of foreign Protestantism caught the English people they moved on lines distinct from those fixed by the Tudors; and the reply of the seventeenth century to the sixteenth was not a development, but a reaction.

  27. And it was in this way that Philip found the lines of his policy laid down for him, before he assumed the crown of Spain, by the conditions under which his father abdicated.

  28. From Sully's Memoirs, and also from other sources, we learn the lines upon which he schemed to remodel the map of Europe.

  29. Procopovitch defeated his enemies, and drew up the plan by which the Church was brought under the civil power, much on the lines of Henry VIII.

  30. Macdonough wrote as he did because "he knew that nothing would stamp a falsehood with currency equal to a pious expression, * * * his falsehoods equalling in number the lines of his letter.

  31. Then Packenham drew off his whole army out of cannon shot, and pitched his camp facing the intrenched lines of the Americans.

  32. All through the night of the 7th a strange, murmurous clangor arose from the British camp, and was borne on the moist air to the lines of their slumbering foes.

  33. Against rude commanders and undisciplined soldiers, lines may avail; seldom against accomplished commanders, never when the assailants are the better soldiers.

  34. But, bearing onwards through the skirmishers with the might of a giant, Packenham broke the half-formed lines into fragments, and sent the whole in confusion upon the advancing supports.

  35. Soult fared as most generals will who seek by extensive lines to supply the want of numbers or of hardiness in the troops.

  36. Meanwhile, fresh lines and another kedge were carried ahead, and the frigate glided away from her pursuers.

  37. Commodore Chauncy formed his force in two lines on the port tack, while Commodore Yeo approached from behind and to windward, in single column, on the same tack.

  38. Anger and despondency struggled within her as she read the lines over and over again.

  39. Rolfe seldom spoke of his own affairs, but in talking of travel he had been heard to mention that his father had engineered certain lines of foreign railway.

  40. Certainly one or two lines had begun to reveal themselves on Sibyl's forehead, which might possibly have come of late reading and memory overstrained; they might also be the record of other experiences.

  41. She, through the unimpassioned arraignment, stood with eyes fixed upon her enemy, rather as if lost in thought than listening; her mouth was tortured into a smile, her forehead had the lines of age and misery.

  42. When Amy lay dead, he saw the sheet of paper on which she had written the few lines necessary to endow him with all she left--everything 'to my dear brother'.

  43. Tremulous from these lines of print, she turned to the letters, and here was full-fed with flattery.

  44. This proved to be of startling contents: a few lines scribbled informally, undated, without signature.

  45. She penned a few lines asking him to let her have a complete statement of the financial results of her recital, which it seemed strange that he had not sent already.

  46. Besides these, however, there are seven which have, or have had, proper lines running down and connecting with points to the main line, so as to convey their produce from the mouth of the mine to the great centres of distribution.

  47. There are no fewer than twelve which have small-gauge lines which run trolly-cars down to the main line.

  48. Those who knew him best were aware that famous as he was as a surgeon, he might have succeeded with even greater rapidity in any of a dozen lines of life.

  49. These four side lines may be eliminated from our inquiry, for, to prevent possible accidents, the rails nearest to the main line have been taken up, and there is no longer any connection.

  50. I began to understand that strangely human look in his eyes, those deep lines upon his care-worn face.

  51. In every case these lines are only a few miles in length.

  52. Picture to yourself your own feelings if, on looking out of your luxurious carriage, you suddenly perceived that the lines upon which you ran were rusted and corroded, red and yellow with disuse and decay!

  53. These air-snakes were of a very light grey or smoke colour, with some darker lines within, which gave the impression of a definite organism.

  54. The trains of the London and West Coast Railway run over the lines of another company as far as this town, which should have been reached by the special rather before six o'clock.

  55. Those among the spectators who had known him at Bishop's Crossing saw him now, gaunt and thin, with deep lines of care upon his face.

  56. The funnel and other fragments were thrown in, the shaft was planked over as it used to be, and the lines which led to it were torn up and taken away.

  57. She began to show a great curiosity about the little yacht; she grew anxious to have the lines flung out; no words of hers could express her admiration for the beauty of the afternoon and of the scene around her.

  58. The result is, that there is a long and wide avenue now stretching its lines of lamps into the distance from the point where the Rue Mouffetard stops and the Avenue Gobelins begins.

  59. Her arms, which were bare to the shoulder, displayed everything of fullness, rotundity and lines of beauty that could be desired.

  60. As, however, the Ibis has an equal claim to the title of Tinshemeth, we will devote a few lines to a description of the bird.

  61. The lines along the back and the sides of the tail are black, and there are three streaks on each ear.

  62. Before concluding this necessarily short account of the domesticated oxen of Palestine, it will be needful to give a few lines to the animal viewed in a religious aspect.

  63. After a while, he hauls them in successively, removes the Fish that may have been caught, and throws the lines into the water afresh.

  64. The double lines of fortification are only to be distinguished by a few scattered mounds, while the wonderful palace of Nebuchadnezzar has left but a few shattered walls as relics of an edifice whose fame spread over the world.

  65. It has been suggested that these skins were only used to lay over the lines where the different sets of coverings overlapped each other, and that, in consequence, they need not have been very numerous.

  66. The body is flattish, and the colour is olive, with lines of yellow edged with black, and the head is marked with longitudinal streaks of bright yellow.

  67. Sometimes the fisherman has a number of lines to manage, and in this case he acts in a slightly different manner.

  68. The reader will observe that this opinion exactly coincides with that which was expressed a few lines above, namely, that the Hebrews used one word to express both butter and cheese.

  69. Near the dining tents half-a-hundred table cloths were already hanging out on wire clothes lines to dry.

  70. Lines of care and anxiety showed about the plucky manager's eyes and lips.

  71. Farmer Dale dropped the lines and jumped down into the road from the wagon, whip in hand.

  72. The streaming lines of people raced on, and the horse snorted and plunged into the mass.

  73. The carefully platted avenues and streets were mere lines in the rough turf.

  74. But the dark lines under the eyes, the curve of experience at the mouth, did not warrant that supposition.

  75. They trudged on among the lines of deserted cars in the fading glare of the July heat.

  76. He had in mind to ride out of the city along the lines of railroad to the southwest to see whether the newspaper reports of the strike were justified or, as he suspected, grossly exaggerated.

  77. Two windows gave a clear view above the little oak copse, the lines of empty freight cars on the siding, and a mile of low meadow that lay between the cottage and the fringe of settlement along the lake.

  78. Then he took the cable car, which connected with lines of electric cars that radiated far out into the distant prairie.

  79. They had chased the toughs in and out among the long lines of freight cars, and fired a few shots.

  80. The Chicago stocks had a blackboard to themselves, and this was covered with the longest lines of figures.

  81. At several points there were long lines of carriages, attending a reception, or a funeral, or a marriage.

  82. Then he ran for the shelter of the long lines of cars standing on the siding.

  83. She scanned the doctor's face, as if to read in the grave lines the record of the year.

  84. The vast flat land began to design itself, as the sun faded out behind the irregular lines of buildings two miles to the west.

  85. The driver walks by the side of his team, thrashing one hand against his shoulder and holding the lines with the other; the horses are half hidden in the steam of their own providing and are frosted even to their flanks.

  86. I found out very soon that there was one trout and four lines snarled.

  87. He changed his lines and whip into his left hand and passed over the suspected coin with his right.

  88. With this assurance and to oblige him I rigged up, under his directions, four pine poles, tied on the lines and fixed up a cast of a coachman for a stretcher and a brown hackle and a gray for droppers.

  89. I substituted a silver dollar, which he slipped into his pocket, straightened out his lines and brought the mules down to a trot.

  90. Major, as the song was concluded, "our lines seem to have fallen in pleasant places, sure enough.

  91. We saw some sharks, and paracoots; and with hooks and lines we caught some rock-fish and old-wives.

  92. This fern is of that kind which bears its seed vessels in lines on the edge of the leaves.

  93. His brow was puckered into deep lines above troubled eyes which stared absently at a Mesdag picture in blue and white tile set in the compartment wall.

  94. She was scuttled by some water rats, and her lines cut.

  95. This he smeared over both the bound men, then laid trails of the mess in radiating lines to the edge of the ant hills to attract other vermin.

  96. Now on the port side, that farthest from the bar, heaps of cleverly faked-down small lines were ranged along the waterways, in preparation for any emergency of drifting boat.

  97. Rolfe, the dour chief mate, was where a good mate should be, on the forecastle head, looking out for lines and fenders.

  98. The river rose rapidly after half-tide, and it had reached full height by the time the fresh plugs were ready and the wire and short lines prepared.

  99. The lines were surged and made fast again, and the Barang's people resumed their silent vigil.

  100. The lines ran down to their proper bollards, as usual, and the river sluiced swiftly alongside, swirling musically between the rotten piles of the ramshackle wharf.

  101. Plenty o' time to cut fresh plugs an' git lines ready.

  102. The sentries around the rails kept trying all the lines to the shore, in hope of surprising some such method of attack.

  103. In fact, ever since the big launch left, and a few hands had been seen about the wharf busily adjusting the lines that apparently needed no adjustment, no life had been conspicuous aboard her.

  104. His face set itself in tense lines as he swore vengeance on all jointly and severally if any harm came to Inez.

  105. All telephones, telegraphs, cables, railroads, steamship lines and other means of communication and transportation shall be immediately taken over by the workers and treated henceforth as the property of the people.

  106. The lines don't rhyme and there's no metrical form," explained Palla.

  107. It will be your part to smooth the lines of trouble from her brow.

  108. Doors were thrown open at the end of the great room, and the royal party came in slowly, passed down the open space on the red carpet between the lines of bowing and curtseying guests, and took their places on the dais.

  109. The Squire's high colour was higher than its wont, his thick grizzled eyebrows were bent into a frown, and his face was set in lines of anger which he evidently had difficulty in controlling.

  110. The sketcher must clear the sketch of all unnecessary lines and notes and make his lettering clear on the map.

  111. Each company in both lines attacks in column of platoons at about 50 yards' distance, with intervals of three to five paces between men, so there would be eight lines of waves, of two platoons each.

  112. If enemy commences withdrawal before front lines have given way, troops in action push forward until enemy in their front are driven away.

  113. For as the sketcher moves along he ties his map together by sighting at any prominent object near his area, running these lines very lightly and only where he assumes the points to lie on his map.

  114. He will be responsible for the cleanliness of his lines and will frequently visit the latrines.

  115. On the instructor's whistle, the lines advance, guiding carefully on their leaders.

  116. To win victory, stave off defeat or prevent lines from being entered.

  117. First draw the sky line and crests, then fill in the other details with fewest lines possible.

  118. Procedure: The class is formed in two lines of about equal numbers, facing each other, about fifty paces apart, with intervals in each line of about two paces.

  119. The support sections follow the leading sections of their company at about 50 yards, marching in two lines, if possible in two lines of squad columns at 20 yard intervals.

  120. Plan of occupation (number of men holding lines to be taken over, their distribution and duties).

  121. The Chief of Engineers will supply tools for entrenching and lay out the lines of entrenchments.

  122. Thin lines may then be used to advance to the attack.

  123. That kid has steam enough for a Central Lines locomotive,” Clay said, as the boy disappeared.

  124. She looks fit as a fiddle,” the old man declared, cocking his head to one side and running his eyes over the graceful lines of the craft.


  125. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    actor; air; algorithm; antagonist; approach; attack; bearing; bit; bivouac; blind; blinders; book; border; breeching; bridle; brow; camp; caparison; carriage; cast; character; cinch; collar; color; complexion; configuration; continuity; contour; countenance; course; crupper; curb; delineation; demeanor; encampment; face; fashion; favor; feature; features; feeder; figuration; figure; form; framework; garb; genre; girth; guise; halter; harness; headgear; heavy; hero; heroine; ingenue; lead; libretto; line; lineaments; lines; looks; manner; means; method; methodology; mien; mode; movement; order; outline; part; pencil; person; personage; piece; port; posture; practice; presence; procedure; proceeding; process; profile; protagonist; reins; relief; role; routine; saddle; scenario; school; score; script; shape; side; silhouette; skeleton; soubrette; stance; style; system; tack; tackle; technique; text; tone; trait; trappings; tug; turn; villain; visage; wise; yoke