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Example sentences for "posts"

Lexicographically close words:
postponing; postposition; postpositions; postquam; postremo; postscript; postscripts; postulant; postulants; postulate
  1. This is in the newest and most dangerous posts of these islands, where their lives are exposed to great risk, as the islands are hostile.

  2. He filled some posts worthily, with so much satisfaction to the religious that he deserved to be the first provincial of that province.

  3. The Mexicans never approached their altars without sprinkling them with blood drawn from their own bodies, as the Jews sprinkled the walls and door-posts of their temples with blood under the requisition of the Levitical code.

  4. At night we were all regularly armed and our posts assigned us.

  5. The colonel of each regiment had previously ridden out and taken his proper position, twenty-five yards to the front, the captains were all at their posts at the head of their squadrons.

  6. The posts are thinner down the water; and, come night, we'll try our hand at getting by them.

  7. Higher up the glen, where the ground was more open, the chain of posts was continued by horse-soldiers, whom we could see in the distance riding to and fro.

  8. The walls are of stone up to three feet high; on this are strong squared posts supporting the roof, everywhere except in the verandah filled in with the leaf-stems of the sago-palm, fitted neatly in wooden owing.

  9. The houses were very rude, black, and half rotten, raised a few feet on posts with low sides of bamboo or planks, and high thatched roofs.

  10. It was quite a dwarf's house, just eight feet square, raised on posts so that the floor was four and a half feet above the ground, and the highest part of the ridge only five feet above the flour.

  11. Luckily I had a few tools of my own, including a small saw and some chisels, and these were now severely tried, cutting and fitting heavy iron-wood planks for the flooring and the posts that support the triangular mast.

  12. The posts which support the houses, bridges, and platforms are small crooked sticks, placed without any regularity, and looking as if they were tumbling down.

  13. At poor old Susan then she railed, While to the town she posts away; "If Susan had not been so ill, "Alas!

  14. Away she posts up hill and down, And to the wood at length is come, She spies her friends, she shouts a greeting; Oh me!

  15. After the war the posts in certain specified cases were to be garrisoned by native troops.

  16. The door-posts and rooms of houses are imprinted with the outspread hand to prevent or withstand "the eye-malign" from glancing on them and the inhabitants its fatal influence.

  17. During the night all the military posts were strengthened, soldiers were concealed in different houses, and the galleys were brought near the shore.

  18. But the army of fifteen thousand was not large enough for carrying out so elaborate a scheme, and Mazarin had to be content with occupying the principal posts outside the city.

  19. Under decorous pretexts, and with every mark of respect, Essex and most of those who had held high posts under him were removed; and the conduct of the war was intrusted to very different hands.

  20. I think I have my hands full with the task laid on me of guarding 4,000 square miles of country with fewer troops than you have, and of being opposite an enemy whose posts touch upon ours, and who is superior in force.

  21. Illustration: The antitank ditch dug by the Japanese along the center and right of Orange Beaches 1 and 2 soon after the landing became the locations of command posts of various units.

  22. Drums rattled away in the far distance, while dust began to rise over road and plain, as the battalions of the enemy marched hither and thither to take up their posts for the coming conflict.

  23. Men slipped silently from their defensive posts and crept into the yard, while a couple of brawny troopers bore the injured Jack to the cart, smiling serenely at his angry protestations.

  24. Four 4 by 4 posts can be bolted to the side-support at each corner of the bottom bunk; they will amply support the top bunk, as the legs do a table-top when the frame is allowed to rest upon their upper ends.

  25. As the posts are placed under each cross-bar, the weights are replaced; and as these posts are higher at the ends than in the middle, the proper curve is obtained for the gunwales.

  26. If posts were to be erected how would you determine what class of posts would be required?

  27. On what part of the city property should those posts be set?

  28. The structural framework was composed of stout beams and posts of timber.

  29. The ends of the vertical posts at the bottom formed a row of spikes which were shod with iron.

  30. This was during the war with the French, and these posts were probably established by the military authorities.

  31. Posts for the transmission of Government messages were established in England in the XIIIth Century, and in 1464 Louis XI.

  32. Sunday morning, August second, found us all at our posts as the sun rose.

  33. One by one the mile posts whizzed past and finally we came into Melun.

  34. On the other hand, he had the satisfaction of seeing the Chief Justice and President removed from the posts they had so incompetently filled, and superseded by new and better men.

  35. We had sixty horse-posts driven in the gate paddock; how many guests I cannot guess, perhaps 150.

  36. News: our old house is now half demolished; it is to be rebuilt on a new site; now we look down upon and through the open posts of it like a bird-cage, to the woods beyond.

  37. His palace has a thatched roof which stands upon posts; it has no walls, but when it blows and rains, they have Venetian blinds which they let down between the posts and make it very snug.

  38. Yes, the post holes were there, only here they held posts leaning loosely this way and that like drunken men.

  39. I believe they already have most of the posts set.

  40. If the parties meet in putting up posts or wires, let our opponents have their way unmolested.

  41. I have my posts set to Beltsville, twelve miles, and you will see by the Intelligencer that I am prepared to go directly on to Baltimore and hope to reach there by the middle of May.

  42. The telegraph posts seemed to be posted to present arms (shall I say?

  43. I have no patent for putting up posts or wires.

  44. I have commenced my operations with posts which promise well at present.

  45. These posts and things can all be carved and decorated, and it will be perfectly unique.

  46. If this happens to carry it above the surface of the ground, set the house on posts and hang the cellar under the floor like a work-bag under a table or the basket to a balloon.

  47. It is possible, theoretically, to build an underground cellar so tight that it may be lifted up on posts and used for a water-tank, or set afloat like a compartment-built iron steamer.

  48. Molds for Ornamental Railing Posts for Concrete Facade for Bridge.

  49. For this purpose eight I-beams were embedded in concrete around the top to be used as posts for the sides of the bin.

  50. The posts were firmly braced on the outside; they were prevented from spreading by connecting wires passing through the wall space between the edges of adjacent planks.

  51. The posts were high enough to reach to the top of the wall; the siding was built up one plank at a time as the concrete work progressed.

  52. The mold for the posts is made in four parts, which fit together at the top and bottom by a bevel joint, as shown in the one-fourth section.

  53. At the end of 14 days loosen the wedges of the posts supporting the slab centers and drop these centers a couple of inches: leave the centers in this position for another day, meanwhile examining the tops of the slabs to note their condition.

  54. In constructing this railing, the posts were molded in place, but the open work panels between posts and the hand rail proper were molded separately and set in place between the posts as indicated.

  55. In another week the bottom boards and staging posts were taken down.

  56. The construction is as follows: Wooden posts carry at their tops steel T-beam cross-arms knee braced to the posts by steel straps.

  57. At the rounded corners of the reservoir the pairs of posts were spaced about two feet apart and the curve was made by springing thin boards into place to fit the curve and nailing them to the posts.

  58. Wedges driven between the vertical posts and the rings held the latter in place.

  59. The arch form was then placed; it rested at the edges on the side forms and was further supported by center posts bearing on boards laid on the bottom of the invert.

  60. There were two posts to each bent, toe-nailed at the top of the tie, and at the bottom to the arch sheeting plank.

  61. The construction of the railing posts is shown by the drawings of Fig.

  62. The molds for the urns on the railing post and the balls on the end posts were made in exactly the same manner as the baluster molds.

  63. Two posts came in, and brought no refutation, public or private.

  64. And you know my rule: I never give posts through patronage.

  65. The greenish light of the lamp lies sparsely on the cheap furniture in patched white covers, on the pitiful flowers and the posts on which ivy is trained.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "posts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.