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Example sentences for "narrow strip"

  • Hang the loom on this frame by winding a narrow strip of cloth loosely around the top of the frame and top of loom (Fig.

  • Hold one inside, one outside, and whip them on over and over, taking the stitches with a narrow strip of shaving as shown in Fig.

  • The bank dipped down rather sharply toward a narrow strip of swamp, threaded midway by a little sluggish, lake-like stream of water.

  • There was a narrow strip of beach, a strip of flat, green marsh, and then beyond that a white ridge of sand.

  • Beyond the wharf they crossed a narrow strip of beach, and climbed a sloping, sandy road cut through the high bluff.

  • Along this there extended a narrow strip of dense timber, and in this timber, somewhere, stood the yurt of which we were in search.

  • The huge sloping snow-drift upon which we stood rose directly out of the water, and, so far as we knew, it might have no other foundation than a narrow strip of ice.

  • Sometimes as vassals of the Oriental dynasties, at other times in a state of independence, they ruled over the beautiful city and a narrow strip of seaboard of varying extent.

  • To another, “Have you been in Devonshire this vacation, Mr. Jones?

  • That which is set in or inserted, especially a narrow strip of embroidered lace, muslin, or cambric.

  • A bay or recess, as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running into the land or between islands.

  • The short cut led across two fields, a narrow strip of village common, where linen was drying on gorse bushes coming into bloom, and one field beyond; she met no one.

  • When he had said this he looked out of the window, where builders had left by inadvertence a narrow strip of sky.

  • El Kefarat [Arabic], a narrow strip of land, running along the south borders of the Wady Sheriat el Mandhour from the frontiers of Belad Erbad to Om Keis.

  • Defn: To cut away a narrow strip, as of sapwood, from the edge of; as, to list a board.

  • A bay or recess,as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running into the land or between islands.

  • Hold one in the palm of the hand, cut it half through and press into it an almond; form the fondant around it, leaving a narrow strip of the nut uncovered, giving the appearance of a shell cracked open, showing the kernel.

  • Turn the folded side down, and with a rolling-pin roll it lightly away from you into a long, narrow strip, keeping it as even as possible.

  • Cut a narrow strip of paste, and lay around the edge; moisten it so it will stick.

  • A narrow strip of the skin with the hair is generally left at the edge of such a skin.

  • A narrow strip of land on each side of the road belonged to the city, and burial lots therein were granted by the municipal council to citizens who had rendered public service.

  • In donating the land for the temple Tullius retained the ownership of a narrow strip of irregular shape at the right.

  • At the edge of the circular bath basin, lined with white marble, was a narrow strip of marble floor, which is extended into the four semicircular niches.

  • The homesteads are massed round the two churches, Catholic and Protestant, most having a narrow strip of garden and balcony carried along the upper storey, which does duty as a drying-ground.

  • In some places the hut is approached by a narrow strip of solid ground, on either side surrounded by water, just admitting the passage of a single pedestrian.

  • It was but a narrow strip of rank grass and withered shrubs with an asphalte pathway widening to a circle in the centre, where stood a gas lamp and two seats, facing one another.

  • Think what it must have meant in that land of drought and famine: only a narrow strip of river bank where a grain of corn would grow; and that only when old Nile was kind.

  • Her eyes were fixed upon the narrow strip of light between the window curtains.

  • The name means Fishcatcher, and a tribe limited to a narrow strip of coast may soon have betaken themselves to the sea.

  • The coast is a narrow strip of land, which only extends into small plains at the mouths of the mountain streams; it is hot, moist, and unhealthy, but of great fertility.

  • Pushing forward, the travelers crossed a narrow strip of uninhabited territory, and entered the famous and unknown kingdom of Karagwe.

  • Interest has centered about the Orange River Free State, owing to the discovery of diamonds here, and in Griqualand, a narrow strip of land bounding it upon the west.

  • Here, on either bank, is a narrow strip of fertile land, under cultivation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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