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Example sentences for "rounded"

Lexicographically close words:
roun; round; roundabout; roundabouts; rounde; roundel; roundelay; roundelays; roundels; rounder
  1. These rounded the hills and scooped the valley-curves and mellowed the soil for meadow-grace.

  2. We are such stuff as dreams are made of--and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

  3. He then rounded the Cape and bent his course towards Madagascar, whose waters were the known rendezvous of swarms of pirates.

  4. Odours of bewildering fragrance rose from the rounded shores; some of these islands showered on us a rain of roses and valley lilies; from others birds darted up, with long wings of rainbow hues.

  5. A spotted leopard's skin, pinned up with a golden arrow, hung lightly from his curved shoulder to his rounded thigh.

  6. I watched his carriage as it rounded the bend of the road, and so faced about to return to the village.

  7. She, or he, was leaning forward in a huddled attitude to meet the wind which now, as they rounded an edge of the down, blew crosswise athwart the gig and a little ahead.

  8. The ends of the sides between D and E are rounded to admit of the wire being more evenly wound on them.

  9. It should be about 6 inches from end to end, and must be carefully rounded so that no projections are left on it.

  10. As we glided across the water and rounded the headland and came slowly into view of the hotel again, Mary was reminded of our parting and for a little while she was disposed to make me remain.

  11. I remember too a wide street over which passes a thundering railway bridge borne upon colossal rounded pillars of iron, and carrying in white and blue some big advertisement, I think of the Daily Telegraph.

  12. Beauty was hers, and her white face, with its delicate square jaw and rounded temples, recalled the pansy by its shape.

  13. He smiled with satisfaction as he addressed the envelope in his smooth and perfectly rounded handwriting.

  14. The speaker's voice dropped to still lower and softer notes of persuasive tenderness as each rounded word of the next sentence fell slowly from the thin lips.

  15. To complete the contrivance, a small peg with a rounded notch should be cut, and driven into the ground directly plumb beneath the long end of the lever.

  16. When this upper outline is accomplished, the log may be turned bottom side up, and the sides of the extremities rounded off.

  17. The other end should be rounded off, as is also there plainly indicated.

  18. Illustration] Near the flat end of the other piece the bait consisting of a berry or other fruit, should be secured, and the further extremity of the stick should then be rounded to a blunt point.

  19. This should consist either of strips of bark or the rounded sides of logs split off and hollowed into troughs.

  20. One end of this board is rounded off, as seen in our illustration, and the sides should also be whittled and smoothed to a blunt edge.

  21. On the under side of the arrow just behind the barb, a flat notch one eighth of an inch in depth and two and a half inches in length is cut, with rounded ends, as seen in the illustration.

  22. The curve of the bow should commence at about four feet from the end, and take a rounded slope upward, leaving about ten inches of width at the end of the board (e).

  23. The mink boards should be rounded at 4 or 5 inches from this point.

  24. The boards should taper slightly down to within 8 inches of the end for fox, and then rounded up to a round point.

  25. Tack down the hind feet and the tail, then take a piece of board about 1 x 1/4 inches (this would be about the correct size for a mink) rounded off except on one side.

  26. The "reception committee," as Chip sarcastically christened them, rounded up the runaway and sneaked back to the ranch by the coulee trail.

  27. The ship's head was rounded slowly up as she rose on a big blue swell, that caught a wild gleam on it from westward, when I happened to glance towards the wheel.

  28. I say, mates, she's all rounded into the head, and a clear run from aft, like a corvette model.

  29. In all probability this entire region consists of a rocky plateau or hilly tract of rounded archaean rocks, highest on the north-east side and to the south, and sloping gradually down to low land towards Ungava Bay.

  30. The musk-ox took not the slightest notice of the report, although we were within a couple of hundred yards of them, and we soon had eighteen rounded up, the main body breaking away as they had done before.

  31. We soon rounded the Horn, and had some very rough weather.

  32. That old frock-coat I used to wear in the cold weather whilst we rounded the Cape.

  33. Who would have expected to see his jocund, rounded physiognomy, where a bland and perpetual smile sat enthroned, distorted into a shape as angular as a problem in Euclid?

  34. Again, the hatchway ladders were made with sharp nosings, against which the men injured their legs; and I suggested that these should be formed with rounded nosings instead.

  35. And when we rounded the Isle of Wight, and came into view of Spithead, lo!

  36. We rounded the Horn, buffeted by the huge seas of that tempestuous promontory.

  37. And afterwards he showed me where he had rounded them up.

  38. Geoffrey's arm slips from his wife's shoulders to her rounded waist.

  39. Standing well back from her butter, she lets her pretty rounded bare arms fall lightly before her to their full length, and as her fingers clasp each other she turns to Rodney and breaks into a peal of laughter sweet as music.

  40. She is gowned in a cream-colored satin that hangs in severe straight lines, and clings to her lissom rounded figure as dew clings to a flower.

  41. Then she smiles involuntarily, and the pink flush in her rounded cheeks grows a shade deeper.

  42. Though his grey mountain suit is fashioned for great feats of daring, it has the rounded waist and martial shoulder-lines with which the Parisian tailor pacifies his conscience when he supplies English fashions.

  43. As I rode in this mornin', everybody was telling how you rounded up the outlaws.

  44. We rounded a point and came out near a sparkling pool of clear, inviting water fed by a stream bursting out of what appeared to be solid rock.

  45. Why should he be taught to despise his hogan, shaped after the beautiful rounded curve of the rainbow and the arched course of the sun in his daily journey across the sky--a type of home that has been his for generations?

  46. The convoy who had rounded the point had all stood out to seaward with the gun-boat, and had now a fresh breeze.

  47. Then Jack rounded to, braced up, and the Rebiera stood across them to the westward.

  48. They had rounded Europa Point, and with a fine breeze off the land, were lying close-hauled along the Spanish shore.


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