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Example sentences for "meshes"

Lexicographically close words:
mesentery; meses; meseta; mesh; meshed; meshing; meshwork; mesial; mesic; mesilf
  1. Canada will remain attached to England, though tied to her neither by the golden links of protection, nor by the meshes of old-fashioned colonial office jobbing and chicane.

  2. Flapping in the net's strong meshes Were the captives.

  3. It was charming fifty years since, When my cheeks were red like roses, And when many knights were captured In the meshes of my glances!

  4. Closely netted were the meshes Of the coarsest twine, while many Leaden weights thereon were fastened.

  5. He picked a tiny piece of raw liver out of the meshes of his long black beard, tilted his big black hat, shoved his arms into his white apron front, and said: "Gawd!

  6. It was just a little pitiful exclamation as the girl realised the net which was closing about her feet, but from the meshes of which she made a last desperate effort to extricate herself.

  7. Now go on in the same way, making the meshes in the order that you find them numbered in Fig.

  8. On the other edge, however, as soon as you have reached the width you need you must change this policy to that of taking the stitch through the last two meshes of the preceding row as in Fig.

  9. At this stage slip all you have done from your mesh stick, and you will find two half meshes attached to your loop A.

  10. Stettin was bringing up the same accusation, Victor von Eckardstein likewise knew about it, and who knows how many more besides--the net was drawing its meshes about him from every side.

  11. Of the outer shell (which is connected with the inner by thin radial threads), only a few polygonal meshes are visible.

  12. From the central capsule arise numerous club-shaped apophyses or caecal sacs, which are protruded through the meshes of the inner shell, x 300 Fig.

  13. But when he was no longer in the unaccustomed meshes of refined conversation, but speaking with an audience before him, he became a different man.

  14. If I cannot unloose the close meshes of the net that enfolds me, shall I never snap them asunder?

  15. A peculiarity about serious crime in the United States, it must be remembered, is that so many persons escape through the meshes of the law, and this is particularly true in the case of the characteristic American crime of homicide.

  16. The pinion E, which meshes with the teeth D, has the end of its shaft F resting in the groove B, and it is also guided within a vertical slotted bar G.

  17. What chances to correspond to them maintains itself, gliding through the meshes of the sieve, what does not perishes.

  18. From the Seven Towers to Galata the Ottoman fleet held the wall facing the Marmora as a net of close meshes holds the space of water it is to drag.

  19. He has in hand a net of strong thread and thousands of meshes already.

  20. And as she spoke she was conscious of a new sensation altogether--the sensation of the wild creature lassoed on the prairie, of the bird exchanging in an instant its glorious freedom of flight for the pitiless meshes of the net.

  21. The meshes should be small at top, against which part of the balloon the inflammable air exerts the greatest force, and increase in size as they recede from the top.

  22. Sometimes flowers are trained by being tied to stakes or long poles, and others are brought to pass through the round of an ornamental ladder, or through the meshes of wirework of different forms.

  23. The size of the meshes of all the nets depends upon the game to be taken; generally they are small.

  24. A strong cord is then passed through the meshes of one end, and tied at both extremes of the net.

  25. If he was as strong again as he is, he could not break the magic meshes of his cage.

  26. When they looked into the water over the side of their boat, they saw the Old Boy taking the fishes from the meshes of the net and putting them into a bag over his shoulder.

  27. It was too dark for them to see what the obstruction was, and they bounced and jumped against the wire meshes like fish in a net.

  28. Then they jumped for the ground on the other side; but the yielding meshes of the skunk fence brought them up short.

  29. Johnson cut the meshes of the Fate-argument, or President Lincoln carried the pious defences of man-stealing.

  30. But we choose to free him from the meshes in which he has entangled himself and give him a chance to run for his life.

  31. She can drop her worms through the meshes on the covered joint.

  32. To dig in the interstices is possible, but to drag the dead animal through them is another matter: the meshes of the net are too close to give it passage.

  33. The very irregular meshes are nowhere wide enough to admit of the passage of the creature to be buried, which in this case is a Mole.

  34. All material which sifts through the three-fourths inch meshes should be rejected for the road, but may be used in making side paths.

  35. The meshes of one sieve should be one and one-half or two inches in diameter, while the meshes of the other should be three-fourths of an inch.

  36. All pebbles which will not go through the one and one-half inch meshes should be rejected or broken so that they will go through.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meshes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arabesque; bait; basketwork; cancellation; cobweb; dragnet; entanglement; filigree; fishhook; fly; fret; fretwork; grate; grating; grid; gridiron; grille; hatching; hook; lace; lacing; lariat; lasso; lattice; lime; lure; mesh; meshes; net; netting; network; noose; pitfall; plexus; plug; riddle; screen; sieve; snare; spinner; springe; texture; tissue; toil; tracery; trawl; trellis; wattle; weave; weaving; web; weft