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Example sentences for "nozzle"

Lexicographically close words:
noyeau; noys; noyse; noysed; noysome; nozzles; nque; nsel; nshiego; nsson
  1. The patient should lie upon the back or the left side with the hips elevated and the head low, while the injection is slowly introduced from a funnel, fountain, or a bulb syringe whose nozzle is thoroughly anointed with vaseline.

  2. In place of water, the bowel may be inflated with air, introduced by a pair of common bellows to the nozzle of which a piece of India-rubber tubing is attached.

  3. As a fireman would sway the nozzle of his streaming hose from side to side, so the Allies poured a continuous, sweeping torrent of shot and shell over the German positions in certain well-defined zones along the line.

  4. The oil is ignited automatically at the nozzle and continues to issue in a sheet of flame until the air pressure falls too low or the oil is exhausted.

  5. When a valve is turned on, the air pressure forces the oil out of the nozzle in a fine spray for a distance of over twenty yards.

  6. The latter consists of a suitable length of metal pipe fitted with universal joints and a nozzle capable of rotation in any direction.

  7. Be sure the exhaust nozzle does not get limed up, and be sure the pipe where the water enters the boiler from the heater is not limed up, or you may split a heater pipe or knock out a check valve.

  8. Of course the fire couldn't be kept going long without the nozzle on.

  9. The exhaust nozzle from the engine cylinder also leads into the smoke stack, and when the engine is running the exhaust steam is sufficient to keep up the draft without using the blower.

  10. It escapes through the exhaust nozzle into the smokestack and is gone.

  11. The steam from the boiler is led through a tapering nozzle to a small chamber into which there is an opening from a water supply pipe.

  12. As has already been described, the blower is a pipe with a nozzle leading from the steam space of the boiler to the smoke stack, and fitted with a globe valve.

  13. The draft must always be kept strong enough to produce a white heat, and if this cannot be done otherwise, a smaller nozzle may be used on the exhaust pipe; but this should be avoided when possible, since it causes back pressure on the engine.

  14. Examine the nozzle of the blower now and then to see that it does not become limed up, or turned so as to direct the steam to one side of the stack, where its force would be wasted.

  15. It is a favorite trick with engineers testing the pulling power of their engines to remove the exhaust nozzle entirely for a few minutes when the fire is up.

  16. Hand-holes--Are smaller holes at various points in the boiler into which the nozzle of a hose may be introduced for cleaning out the interior.

  17. Another thing, the smallness of the exhaust nozzle in the smokestack affects the back pressure.

  18. If the exhaust nozzle is choked up with grease or sediment, clean it out.

  19. So the exhaust nozzle should be as large as circumstances will permit.

  20. Again, if the exhaust nozzle is too low down, the draft through the lower flues may be greater than through the upper.

  21. This steam nozzle throws out its spray with great force and creates a partial vacuum in the chamber, causing the water to flow in.

  22. Templeton's usual stolidity was in fact quite broken down by the arrival of the nozzle made to his own design, for which he had been waiting in order to complete his reconstruction of the ancient road-sweeper.

  23. Breakfast is nearly ready, and as the nozzle has just come by parcel post, I want to fix it and see how it works before I go off to the shop.

  24. He seemed quite pleased that the nozzle is a success.

  25. Well, I'll have time to fit on the nozzle before you're down.

  26. The wire is bent to receive the hose at A, and, after the handle is slipped on, the other end is formed to fit tightly over the brass nozzle at B.

  27. The friction is much less than in the ordinary hose nozzle, and consequently this nozzle delivers more water and also materially reduces the strain on the hose.

  28. I find that a holder made of a heavy piece of galvanized wire bent in the shape shown can be used to set the nozzle at any angle.

  29. A Hose-Nozzle Handle A handle for a garden-hose nozzle is easily made of a piece of wire and the wooden part of a package carrier.

  30. The hose nozzle can be easily carried with the handle, which will keep the hand dry.

  31. A Hose Nozzle The nozzle shown in the accompanying sketch was made from an empty tobacco can having an oval shape.

  32. The weight on the reel kept the hose wound on it and the nozzle end which projects through the floor is large enough to hold it from passing through the hole bored for the hose.

  33. Drill and tap the nozzle hole for a 3/4-in.

  34. Nozzle Angle for Lawn Sprinkling [Illustration] Where there is no prop or water sprinkler at hand for tilting the nozzle of a hose, start to tie a knot in the hose, as shown in the sketch, but do not draw it up tightly.

  35. Holder for a Garden-Hose Nozzle [Illustration] When sprinkling a lawn with an automatic spraying device on a hose nozzle it is necessary to have some kind of an arrangement to tilt the end at the proper angle.

  36. If the relief tube D is closed with the thumb the water is forced out in a steady stream through the nozzle E.

  37. The men with the nozzle spurred into activity.

  38. With that he moved away, over to the gang of Ganymedans holding the stone nozzle and looking expectantly up at the large, round hole in the cloud ceiling.

  39. The nozzle is close to three feet in diameter, and the stream that it throws will bury a small barn.

  40. Expert painters stand, like fire-fighters, with a hose-nozzle in their hands.

  41. Presently the nozzle of the hose came into view, and behind it the rubber tube emerged until Daisy could see a black-sleeved arm, with white cuffs turned back at the wrist.

  42. Fitful rattlings of a mower and the hiss from a hose-nozzle sounded on the lawn.

  43. The nozzle and about three feet of garden hose lay near him.

  44. He put the nozzle down her pink throat as far as it would go.

  45. The fireman they had despoiled began to drag at the hose from a safe distance; but when Kirk made as if to turn the nozzle upon him he scampered away amid the jeers of the crowd.

  46. Kirk promptly turned the nozzle upon him, and the full force of Colon's water-pressure struck him squarely in the stomach, doubling him up like the kick of a mule.

  47. When jointed, they can rapidly be raised to an upright position, the topmost length having a flexible pipe and nozzle for the discharge of the jet of water.

  48. Two men held it by a handle on each side; and when the nozzle had been dipped into a bucket or a cistern near, and the water had flowed in, they would raise the squirt, while the third man pushed up the piston to discharge the water.

  49. This apparently was not only due to the great compression of air in the air-chamber, but also to the peculiar shape he gave to the nozzle of the jet; and it is said he was able to throw water to a height of a hundred and thirty feet or more.

  50. The increase in velocity of the water by the use of a branch and nozzle is, of course, very great.

  51. A mischievous recruit turned the nozzle on the tourists.

  52. He held the nozzle of the hose in a drizzling rain.

  53. The water then rushes through the flexible hose, and is directed by a nozzle against the face of the excavation.

  54. The blow-off cock was two inches in diameter, and the nozzle of the hose an inch and a half.

  55. Then he went back to the window, threw it open, and stood with the nozzle in his hand.

  56. One day, when he was called in to repair a wheel, he noticed that one of the buckets which had been misplaced received the water from the nozzle without any splashing.

  57. A needle valve C may be moved into the nozzle to reduce or shut off the jet of steam.

  58. Steam from the boiler comes down the tube A and passes out in a jet from the nozzle B.

  59. When the steam flows into the cone B it gathers momentum and issues from the nozzle in a jet of high velocity.

  60. The steam expands as it moves the piston and as it passes through the nozzle its expansion is accompanied by a corresponding loss of heat.

  61. When steam flows through a diverging nozzle its velocity is greatly accelerated by its expansive effort.

  62. If the liquid discharged is very dark and thick the nozzle is too deep in the sand or gravel; if of a light color the pipe must be lowered.

  63. By this means the depth of the nozzle is altered, as required to suit the depth of water.

  64. At the lower end of this pipe is an elbow-shaped copper nozzle which rests on the bottom, and is fitted with a grating to prevent stones getting into the pump and stopping the work.

  65. Tom took the tube, and, putting the nozzle in the pot of boiling water nearest to him, drew back the rod.

  66. Hannibal dodged to one side, and Seddon, with a vigorous thrust of the rod, threw a stream of scalding water from the nozzle to a distance of more than forty feet.

  67. Each had a rod projecting from one end and a nozzle on the other.

  68. Laughing over my recollection of the scene, I sat down on the edge of the grass island, adjusting the nozzle again until the water came out in a fine spray of mist.

  69. I turned the nozzle of the hose so that the water came out in a steady stream.

  70. Sidenote: How to Use the Inspirator] To encourage a fire you apply the brass nozzle to the struggling blaze, and blow steadily through the rubber tube.

  71. When out of use you wrap the rubber tube around the brass nozzle and tuck it away in your waistcoat pocket.

  72. The hose quivered, and the four men at the nozzle felt it twitching as the water pressed at the closed valve.

  73. Every now and then the hosemen elevated the nozzle and gave Colonel Gideon Ward his share.

  74. It had been made from a bicycle foot-pump, by reversing the piston-valve, and was fitted with a glass nozzle and a small detachable glass receiver for collecting the dust, at the end of a flexible metal tube.

  75. The assistant slipped his foot into the stirrup of the pump and worked the handle vigorously, while Thorndyke drew the glass nozzle slowly along the hat-brim under the curled edge.

  76. And as the nozzle passed along, the white coating vanished as if by magic, leaving the felt absolutely clean and black, and simultaneously the glass receiver became clouded over with a white deposit.

  77. We have always used a knapsack sprayer equipped with a mist nozzle for our trees but this is inadequate as the trees grow taller.

  78. This summer a much more satisfactory nozzle was found that may be quickly adjusted to throw a mist for low trees or a far reaching one for the taller trees.


  79. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nozzle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    atomizer; beak; bill; bugle; douche; enema; muffle; muzzle; nose; nostril; nozzle; proboscis; rose; rostrum; shower; snout; sparge; spray; sprinkler; syringe; trunk