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Example sentences for "plugging"

Lexicographically close words:
pluckt; plucky; plue; plug; plugged; plugs; pluie; plum; pluma; plumage
  1. Plugging of the nostrils with cotton-wool for half an hour before washing out the nose greatly facilitates the detachment of the crusts.

  2. Plugging of the posterior nares is rarely necessary, as, in the majority of cases, an anterior plug suffices.

  3. The second method of preventing purging from the lungs and stomach consists in plugging the pharynx through the mouth, there-by plugging the trachea and the esophagus.

  4. If this method is to be used at all, it is advised that you do the plugging of the pharynx before the arterial embalming has been done.

  5. When he came to bat the second time he had the Permanent Chairman and the Tellers and all the Rough-Necks plugging for him, consequently it was a Pipe.

  6. When Ferdinand got back to his Room and counted up, he had to admit that Father was the only Outsider who seemed to be plugging for the Alliance.

  7. And no more than into the open Atlantic than we were plugging into it.

  8. Throughout his trick at the wheel Drislane said nothing, but every moment the compass could spare his eyes saw them roaming across to where the Orion, like ourselves, was plugging through the short green seas for home.

  9. The captain became as pale as death, and the gunners went on plugging out shells in an automatic way with grief-stricken faces.

  10. For an hour a Belgian battery kept plugging shots towards the enemy's lines.

  11. The gunners were still at work plugging out shells over the enemy's lines, from which came answering shells with the challenge of death, but they had found time to decorate the graves of the comrades who had been "unfortunate.

  12. At first there seemed to be no result, but gradually, almost imperceptibly, the heavy plugging stride grew longer.

  13. Honest old Elisha had been plugging along in the dust for the first half mile, but at that point he began to run, and the Curry colours moved up with great celerity.

  14. Undoubtedly our first job is to get the plugging done.

  15. There are no clots plugging the open mouths of the arteries on the surface of the wound; the veins may or may not be closed by an imperfect clot.

  16. This is accomplished by making the coil K such that it exactly compensates for the reduction in resistance caused by plugging in the shunt coil S.

  17. The plugging box should be fireproof; should have self-closing doors so that there may be no liability of open fuses being left among the scenery where they are used.

  18. Some provisions should be made so that one can easily distinguish between arc and incandescent pockets or divisions in plugging boxes.

  19. A cut of a much-used plugging box is shown in Figure 208.

  20. By the use of plugging boxes the quantity of stage cable necessary can be much reduced.

  21. Plugging boxes are used to obviate the necessity of running a large number of wires over the stage to the different stage pockets.

  22. Most of the plugging boxes in use at the present time are arranged for link fuses.

  23. Another reason for the overfusing, of plugging boxes especially, is found in the fact that arc and incandescent plugs are interchangeable.

  24. The danger of an embolus plugging one of the smaller arteries is great and probably happens more often than we think.

  25. The same effect may be produced by the plugging of a vessel with a thrombus.

  26. Upon such seasoned wooden plug or plugging material shall be filled at least thirty feet of cement properly mixed with sand, or thirty feet of good clay or rock sediment properly prepared.

  27. Two or three plugging nails, made ready and kept for the purpose, will be all that are required for smaller plugs.

  28. They'll never get six yards by plugging the line.

  29. Tom was plugging along at right guard and doing well.

  30. Then Brimfield found herself and went down the gridiron by steady plunges, plugging the Canterbury line for good gains from tackle to tackle.

  31. He's got it in for Ridgway since Waring threw him down, and he's plugging night and day for Warner.

  32. When I returned to my work, I found that I had nearly completed my statement of facts about worms plugging up their burrows with leaves (548/1.

  33. But it is far more surprising that they should apparently exhibit some degree of intelligence instead of a mere blind, instinctive impulse, in their manner of plugging up the mouths of their burrows.

  34. Worms likewise drag an infinite number of dead leaves and other parts of plants into their burrows, partly for the sake of plugging them up and partly as food.

  35. We have been nailing and plugging bits together, and working them in to the best of our ability, until our last nail is expended; and now we seem to be at a standstill.

  36. I did not like either; to keep her I had no intention, did not even like the girl, though I liked plugging her.

  37. At the same time that he produced this invention [45] he conceived the plugging of the lateral holes by the valve keys then recently invented by Potter.

  38. But it was hardly possible to obtain a perfect plugging of seven lateral holes with the aid of as many keys, for the control of which there were only the two little fingers, and therefore this invention of Orazi proved a failure.

  39. Everyone's theory was as good as the next and each person with any weight at ATIC was plugging and investigating his own theory.

  40. In the fourth period dazzling runs outside of tackles by Tim Otis and hard line-plugging by Rollins and Howard took the ball from Brimfield's thirty-five to the enemy's twenty-five.

  41. Plugging the line would never cover that distance to the farther goal line and so Carmine sent Gordon off around the left end.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plugging" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    application; assiduity; assiduous; concentration; constancy; constant; continuing; diligence; diligent; dogged; drudge; drudgery; endurance; enduring; faithful; fidelity; grind; grinding; hardworking; immutable; inalterable; indefatigable; indomitable; industrious; industry; insistence; insistent; invincible; lasting; loyal; loyalty; moil; obstinacy; obstinate; patience; patient; permanence; permanent; persevering; persistence; persistent; pertinacious; pertinacity; plodding; plugging; preoccupation; preoccupied; promotion; rapt; relentless; relentlessness; resolute; resolution; sedulous; slavery; sleepless; stability; stable; stamina; steadfast; steady; straining; striving; struggling; stubborn; stubbornness; sweating; tenacious; tenacity; tireless; travail; unconquerable; undaunted; unfailing; unfaltering; unflagging; unflinching; uninterrupted; unrelenting; unremitting; unswerving; untiring; unwavering; unwearied; work; working