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Example sentences for "refining"

Lexicographically close words:
refiner; refineries; refiners; refinery; refines; refit; refitted; refitting; reflect; reflected
  1. Best carbon is heated with coal or charcoal, in some works on the refining hearth, in others upon the bed of the puddling furnace.

  2. Several methods are adopted for refining or purifying the fixed oils, among which are the following:-- 1.

  3. The native petroleums vary greatly in properties, and numerous methods of refining are employed by the manufacturers.

  4. Metallurgists avail themselves of this method in assaying and refining the precious metals and procuring antimony and some other metals from their ores.

  5. Daville and Debray have introduced a method of refining platinum, which has already done much to extend the useful applications of the metal.

  6. I would sooner confront an army of Amazons headed by Penthesilea herself, than trust myself among a people unhumanized and uncivilized by the refining influence and companionship of women!

  7. The meaning of Samudara manthana or churning of the sea, seems to be the refining of the salt water of the deluging sea).

  8. Fahrig, of Eccles, Lancashire, has invented a new process of refining sugar through electrolysis.

  9. Electrolysis and Refining of Sugar--A method of bleaching sugar said to be due to ozone produced by electric currents acting on the solution--1 illustration.

  10. There can be no doubt that the emotional training and refining of the fleshly instincts by Christianity was the chief cause of the rise of that conception of romantic love which we associate with the institution of chivalry.

  11. Much of the clayed sugar which I saw delivered at Manila for refining into loaves had rather the appearance of dirty mud than of a valuable commodity.

  12. Does not the sight of a pretty young creature like that remind you of home, and all the sweet refining influences shed around it by woman?

  13. She could exert no such elevating or refining influence as she casts over the modern home.

  14. Reform in its antagonism inclines to asinine resistance, to kick with hoofs; it runs to egotism and bloated self-conceit; it runs to a bodiless pretension, to unnatural refining and elevation which ends in hypocrisy and sensual reaction.

  15. And there the sixth, the spirit sense will lead, If to its dictates we give earnest heed; And its refining process will prepare Us for a full and free reception there; And there we'll talk of nationality With the celestials of eternity.

  16. The extension of this method of refining to all of the Sudbury ores would create an important supply of platinum.

  17. Of the oil-refining capacity the United States controls nearly 70 per cent.

  18. Canadian matte has been refined mainly in the United States, but the tendency is toward refining a larger proportion in Canada.

  19. Through financial interests abroad and by means of refining facilities, the United States controls a quantity of foreign production which, together with the domestic production, gives it control of about 70 per cent of the world's copper.

  20. The Canadian government has exerted some pressure toward larger refining of nickel matte in Canada.

  21. Better methods of refining the oil, and the refining of a larger percentage of the crude oil, make the oil more available for a greater variety of purposes and therefore more valuable.

  22. United States production, the bismuth being recovered as by-product from the electrolytic refining of the lead bullion.

  23. The refining and elevating influence of artistic work I have already mentioned.

  24. Nor is it necessary to remind those who have given attention to the subject of education how important is the influence of the beautiful is in refining the sentiments and elevating the nature of the young.

  25. That it was an effective and refining system, all can testify who have made the acquaintance of any of the charming Japanese ladies whose schooling was finished before Commodore Perry disturbed the repose of old Japan.

  26. I am partly sensible that some unwritten rules of taste are making their way into my mind; that all this Greek beauty has done something towards refining me, though I am still, however, a very sturdy Goth.

  27. But on the other hand, the stage was without the restraining, refining influence of their presence; a coarser tone could and did prevail as a result.

  28. It is not, therefore, necessary for me to state that I regretted to see sentence executed; but it was one of the fates of war, which is cruelty itself, and there is no refining it.

  29. In reality, we find one historian of a given subject or period succeeding another, and refining upon his methods and treatment.

  30. A process for refining sugar in the factory, at less cost than it is possible to make raw sugar by existing processes, deserves notice.

  31. In sugar refining it is frequently desirable to determine the viscosity of sirups, molasses, etc.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "refining" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    architecture; assembly; blazing; blistering; building; burning; calcination; casting; combustion; composition; construction; conversion; craftsmanship; creation; cremation; cultivation; deflagration; devising; distillation; elaboration; erection; extraction; fabrication; formation; formulation; growing; handicraft; handiwork; harvesting; incineration; making; manufacture; milling; mining; molding; oxidation; preparation; processing; raising; refinement; scorching; smelting; suttee; workmanship