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Example sentences for "proper position"

  • To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve.

  • To wrest or force from the natural or proper position.

  • The armature K on its shaft is then mounted in the bearings of the lower casting and the other part of the frame placed in position, dowel pins L or any other means being used to secure the two parts in proper position.

  • For instance, the experimenter may, by selecting a proper position, approach the hand at a certain considerable distance to the bulb, and he may cause the brush to pass off by merely stiffening the muscles of the arm.

  • In either case nothing is left to the machine operator but to select the proper tools and set them, and the work in proper position in the machine.

  • The fulcrum piece is provided with a spring which retains the serrated edge in proper position to engage the notches in the lever A.

  • Above all, disuse and a proper position of the affected part must not be neglected.

  • Reduction is facilitated by proper position of the limb, by relaxation of certain sets of muscles.

  • When the sloughs become loose, they must be removed bit by bit with scissors; and when the sphacelated part has separated entirely, the healing of the breach is to be promoted by judicious dressing, bandaging, and by proper position.

  • The pot is next turned and fixed in a proper position in the furnace, without being allowed to cool, and is then charged with cold iron, so that the metal, when melted, shall have its surface a little below the mouth of the pot.

  • Having got the board in proper position, with its white square at the bottom right-hand corner, the next thing is to set up the men in proper order.

  • Then with a fret saw cut picture and board into all manner of wild shapes, shake them into disorder and then try to put them back again into their proper position.

  • It may be found that the thread is too slack in places to hold down the wings in proper position.

  • Name the equipments or implements which each member procures and places in proper position at the command "Posts!

  • The subject to be reproduced is then photographed in the usual manner, and unless a prism or mirror box has been used the negative is stripped and reversed in order to make the print reproduce the original in proper position.

  • Type is used also for printing lettering directly on a drawing exactly in proper position, by a special type holder, somewhat like a self-inking stamp.

  • From these plates transfers are pulled and the parts are assembled and laid down in proper position on a stone or an aluminum plate, which is then prepared for printing.

  • I found, however, like many others who become "slack" in bodily posture, that a considerable effort was required to maintain a proper position at all times.

  • Throughout the day while following your daily duties remember the suggestions in reference to proper position.

  • In fact, you will be more inclined to breathe freely and deeply at all times if a proper position is maintained.

  • When the beginner has learned how to sit in the saddle, she should practise leaning back, which she can best do by gripping the crutches, while keeping her legs in proper position (Fig.

  • On such an animal the standing martingale is valuable, because it makes him keep his head in a proper position.

  • The famous steeplechase horse, Scots Grey, would never win a race without one of these martingales to keep his head in proper position.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proper position" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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