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Example sentences for "seam"

Lexicographically close words:
sealings; seall; seals; sealskin; sealskins; seaman; seamanlike; seamanship; seame; seamed
  1. We both fell silent after this catalogue, quite inapplicable to the situation, and it was with heartfelt thanks I distinguished each fault and seam in the Dover Cliffs as well as the breaking line of surf below.

  2. The Grass has found another seam in the deck.

  3. The seam should now be well primed on both sides with the solution of corrosive sublimate, to prevent the entrance of moths.

  4. Care must be taken not to enlarge the branchial openings too much, which would render it necessary to sew them up again, and it is not easy to hide a seam in a fish's skin.

  5. When this is completed the skins are opened out and the second seam made on the grain side to complete a double seam without penetration of either skin.

  6. These began about 8 or 9 inches inboard of the gunwale ends; the heads did not reach the gunwales, but instead were caught in the horizontal seam of the side panel and then cut off.

  7. Back-stitching, which was much used in the topsides, can be pulled up quite hard and makes a tight seam when gummed, as do the harness stitch and cross-stitch.

  8. Likewise, a seam was not used in forming the rocker of the bottom.

  9. The forward portion of that side would then be covered by a single large panel or perhaps two, so that the horizontal seam on that side would run from the stem aft to the inboard end of the foredeck and would be just above the chine.

  10. The blind seam is used but in many kayaks the lap is very short, about ⅜ inch being common.

  11. On rare occasions the strength of a lapped-edge seam was increased by the use of a parallel row of stitching.

  12. The ends, from the beginning of the seam to above the waterline, may be heavily gummed and then covered with a narrow strip of thin bark, heavily enough smeared with gum to cause it to adhere over the seam.

  13. Nigel turned pale as his eyes rested upon the cicatrice, showing like a whitish seam through the slight coating of blood.

  14. The white cartilaginous seam that indicated the scar, commencing upon the back of the hand, and running longitudinally, was continued to the finger's tip.

  15. But, had he approached the fault from c to d, he would then have termed it a downthrow, because he would see from the hade of the fault that his coal-seam must be sought for at a lower level.

  16. The seam extended along through some three feet of rock and ore.

  17. Rush pointed to a seam in the rocks overhead.

  18. Illustration: Rush Pointed to a Seam in the Rocks Overhead.

  19. She saw his outspread hands clutching the seam above; watched for them to let go.

  20. He was hugging a rock face, feeling his way, with nothing but a few inches of a projecting seam between him and the darkness far below.

  21. The relative thickness of these beds also varies very greatly, and over an underclay of seven or eight feet the coal seam may only reach a couple of inches, while a thick seam may have a floor of very slight dimensions.

  22. The seams of coal are extremely numerous, and even the same seam may vary greatly in thickness.

  23. We have only to imagine this multiplied by many plants lying tightly packed together, with no mineral impurities between, to see that it would yield a coal seam like those we find actually existing.

  24. In detail almost every seam has some individual peculiarity, but the following represents two types of typical seams.

  25. It is, in fact, a coal seam bearing the clearest possible evidence of its plant nature.

  26. When conditions favoured the formation of a coal seam the land level was slowly sinking, and so, though the debris collected in large quantities, it was always kept just beneath the water level.

  27. The second type of seam is that in which the underclay floor is not present, and is replaced either by shales or by a special very hard rock of a finely granular nature called "gannister".

  28. She knows Sahwah can swim well because she has a fish on the side seam of her gown, which is the place for local or national honors.

  29. An opening about 3 inches in length is left in the seam of the bag just under the Y-piece, so that the cane may be removed and rolled up when the net is put out of action.

  30. The ridge itself is strewed with spalled stone, quartz broken from the veins that seam the granite, and with slag as usual admirably worked.

  31. Are there not still the darkened seam and scar Beneath the brightness that you fain would show?

  32. But all at once I noticed that about half an inch of the seam of her black silk bodice was unsewn.

  33. Close the thread, make fine the knot; There'll be no dainty finger To arrange a seam forgot.

  34. Out blazed the rifle blast, It shivered the window pane and sash, It rent the banner with seam and gash.

  35. One finger was ripped the entire length, so it took a long time to mend it neatly; to buttonhole the edges on each side, and then draw the stitches together in a seam that was stronger than the original one.

  36. But supposing from the peaceful expression of Jack's face that he was falling asleep, she sang bravely on to the end, although the tears were dropping down on the seam in her now idle hands.

  37. A Suture is that which joins together two Bones by a kind of Seam or Stitch, or by a Connexion of their Extremities dispos'd in form of a Saw, the Teeth whereof are reciprocally let one into another: Such are the Sutures of the Skull-Bones.

  38. It is a kind of thick Seam or Stitch, that serves to unite the Bones of the Skull.

  39. A fell should be turned, before the edges are put together, and the seam should be over-sewed, before felling.

  40. To Run a seam, to lay the two edges of a seam together, and pass the threaded needle out and in, with small stitches, a few threads below the edge, and on a line with it.

  41. This method brings the worn spot under the knees, and the seam looks much better than a patch and darn.

  42. It was a famous sail, a web of '00 storm,' stitched and fortified at seam and roping for such a wind as this.

  43. He goes sorrowfully to his work, and bends over his seam with many shakings of the head.

  44. Persis employed several pins in tightening a seam and expressed her views at some length.

  45. She tightened the seam under her arm, used the scissors discreetly here and there, and continued to argue the point, though there was none who had a right to question or to criticize.

  46. Persis picked up her work and resumed her sewing with a brave show of indifference though the seam ran into a blur before her eyes.

  47. They laid the upper sheet on with the wide hem at the top, as before, but with the seam up instead of down.

  48. Margaret wondered at this, but was told that this way made the two smooth sides of the sheets come next to the one who slept between them, and at the same time made the upper sheet turn over at the top with the seam underneath.

  49. In a hundred different ways I arranged the little houses of painted wood around the church, with its pointed belfry and its red walls, where the seam of the bricks was marked by fine white lines.

  50. I still have my first machine; and it will now sew as good a seam as any sewing-machine known to me.

  51. Immense trunks of trees have also been met with in the middle of a seam of coal.


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