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Example sentences for "pivot"

Lexicographically close words:
pitying; pityingly; pityriasis; pitzness; piu; pivotal; pivotally; pivoted; pivoting; pivots
  1. I so the cone points n will rest in the pivot holes of the escape wheel and pallets.

  2. N N' represent the jaws of a pair of cutting pliers and y the pivot to be cut.

  3. After the lower pivot is turned to fit the jewel the cylinder is to be removed from the cement chuck and the upper part turned.

  4. To employ this tool for getting the proper length to which to cut the pivot y, Fig.

  5. The cutting is done by simply filing back the pivot until of the right length.

  6. The pivot at s should be small enough to go easily through the smallest hole jewel to be found in cylinder watches, and should be about 1/16" long.

  7. After the screw is cut, the needle is again hardened and tempered to a spring temper and a long, thin pivot turned upon it.

  8. Now the length of the pivot s, which protrudes beyond the sleeve F, coincides with the length to which we must cut the pivot y, Fig.

  9. The lower end of the escape wheel pivot is made about ΒΌ" long, so that a short piece of brass wire can be screwed upon it, as shown in Fig.

  10. The top pivot z of the cylinder is next cut to the proper length, as indicated by the space between the screwhead f and the other blade of the pinion caliper.

  11. It is evident that we can allow the pivot s to protrude from the sleeve F any portion of its length, and regulate such protrusion by the screw t.

  12. This point of percussion is a certain point in a moving mass where the greatest effort is produced and would be somewhere near the point x, in a bar G turning on a pivot at z, Fig.

  13. The measurement is made by putting the pivot s between the jaws N N' as they hold the pivot.

  14. We would not advise jeweling the pivot holes, because there is but slight friction, except to the foot of the balance pivot, which should be jeweled with a plano-convex garnet.

  15. The current which drives the motor reaches it through this pivot and leaves through the mercury.

  16. The only place where the wheel and its supports touch anything solid is at one delicately made pivot which serves to keep the floating mechanism in the centre of the mercury basin, and to prevent it from rubbing against the side of it.

  17. By means of suitable mechanism the propeller can be turned at any desired speed, with the result that it drives the arm round and round upon its pivot on the top of the tower.

  18. The pivot of this magnet is brought forward and has on its front part another needle, which being on the same pivot turns with it; this is visible on the outside of the apparatus, and is looked at to ascertain the movement of the one within.

  19. Cingolo Ridge was meanwhile strongly occupied by the Infantry, whose line ran from its highest peak slantwise across the valley of the Gomba Stream to Hussar Hill, where it found its pivot in Barton's Brigade and the Artillery.

  20. As the Patrick Henry could not have returned unseen, Tucker took a position about a mile distant from the batteries, and opened on the Federal vessels with his port battery and pivot guns.

  21. A thin broomstick will serve as the pivot bar for the upper end.

  22. An upright pivot pin, or the pin of a hinge; A represents the pintle of a rudder.

  23. He, though a Kshatriya, joined the company of the Rishis and was finally raised to the skies as Grahadhara, "the pivot of the plants.

  24. The Pankas in the same way make their women hold the thatch and throw the rice mortar and the flour-mill pivot into the courtyard.

  25. The pivot of the doctrine is the word aggregate.

  26. The above passage is very well fitted to be the pivot of the whole controversy.

  27. Each has a pivot or hinge, as it were, upon which the whole turns.

  28. To the central pivot of B is attached a foot piece, C.

  29. The shaping is almost exclusively done on the potter's wheel, which is set on a pivot working in a porcelain eye.

  30. As a rule, the wheel is turned by the potter himself, but in Hizen it is kept in motion by means of a band connected with its pivot and another wheel turned by a boy.

  31. The polisher is at the same time slowly revolving around a pivot at its centre, which pivot the crank works into, and the glass below it is slowly turned in an opposite direction.

  32. This frame is provided with a pivot and a circular track for the reception of the cast iron platform, E', which rests thereon through the intermedium of rollers.

  33. Then they wheeled the telescope upon its pivot eastward, and met our own moon coming up, as if in a grand jealousy, to assert herself within her small domain, and put out faint, far satellites of lordlier planets.

  34. The pivot of the little solar system was changed; but the chief planets made but slight account of that; they just felt that it had grown very warm and bright.

  35. The whole equipment was laid for "line" by turning the frame, and with it the trough, prop and trail by a pivot in the head of the pedestal.

  36. The pedestal was a strong and solid upright resting upon, and strutted to, a framework on the ground; its upper end, as mentioned above, took the pivot of the frame and the head of the trail.

  37. He would be knocked clean off the pivot on which he's revolved these thirty years.

  38. Seems to me every one's travelling on a pivot in the old country.

  39. A spring was wound spirally--not helically--around the projecting end of the breaker pivot and the end of the spring hookt over the thin finger.

  40. Just how the central end of the spring wire was fastened to the square of the pivot I do not kno.

  41. This was indeed the pivot on which the whole scheme turned, for in no other way would it be possible to seize the ten men on board the gallivats without raising such an alarm as must shock fort, city, and harbor to instant activity.

  42. I have therefore chosen two outstanding events in the history of India--the capture of Gheria and the battle of Plassey--and have made them the pivot of a personal story of adventure.

  43. She did not want to hurt people, but the primitive maternal instinct, which was the pivot of her being, blinded her to the claims of others if those claims reacted adversely on her son.

  44. PIV'OTED, furnished with a pivot or pivots.

  45. The rust of centuries on the pivot wears slowly off, and the stone turns ponderously round, giving access to a low dark passage.

  46. The light was a sure evidence of human occupation: and yet the outer door swung rustily on its pivot as though it had never been opened for ages.

  47. By turning round the pivot an axe is converted into an adze.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pivot" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ankle; arbor; articulation; avert; axis; bearing; boundary; butt; center; cervix; circle; circulate; climax; clinch; closure; connection; core; cornerstone; coupling; crank; crisis; crux; deflect; divert; dovetail; elbow; embrace; essence; essential; fulcrum; fundamental; gist; gravamen; gudgeon; gyrate; gyre; heart; heel; hinge; hip; hub; interface; issue; joining; joint; juncture; kernel; keystone; knee; knuckle; landmark; link; marrow; meat; middle; milestone; miter; mortise; nave; navel; neck; nucleus; pin; pintle; pirouette; pith; pivot; point; pole; rabbet; radiant; rest; revolve; rotate; round; scarf; screw; seam; sheer; shoulder; spin; spindle; stitch; substance; suture; swing; swivel; toggle; turn; twist; umbilicus; union; veer; weld; wheel; whip; whirl; wind; wrist