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Example sentences for "skew"

Lexicographically close words:
sketchers; sketches; sketchily; sketching; sketchy; skewbald; skewed; skewer; skewered; skewers
  1. Views of a section of skew coil winding; so called on account of the skew shape given to the coil ends in order that all the coils may be of one shape.

  2. In chain winding the adjacent coils link one another as in a chain (hence, the name); the winding is similar to a skew coil winding.

  3. This is accomplished by making the ends skew shape as shown in figs.

  4. I am only too glad to have been enabled to skew my friendship by this trifling service.

  5. I pressed her hand tenderly, to skew that I assented to the conditions she laid down.

  6. Sylvester called an instrument based on this property a plagiograph or a skew pantograph.

  7. For example, it may be reduced to two forces in perpendicular skew lines.

  8. The upper face of each small skew bevel wheel forms one part of a clutch; the other part of the clutch is slidably mounted on the spindle.

  9. The Sheriff, little Mister Brice, put it to the vote, in the usual way, by a skew of hands, which of us the freemen would have for their member.

  10. He advanced slowly, with a slight outward skew to his short, round legs.

  11. She put up a little work-gnarled hand to a tight skew of brown hair streaked thickly with grey.

  12. Another bridge is a perfectly constructed skew arch, which the train crosses a few feet after leaving Chicago.

  13. The valve shaft D is driven at half the rate of revolution of the crank shaft C by means of the skew or worm gear E, one wheel of which is mounted on the crank shaft and the other on the valve shaft.

  14. In spaces between shoulders, too narrow to permit the use of the skew chisel, very effective work can be accomplished by slightly tipping the parting tool sideways to allow a shearing cut to be taken with the cutting edge.

  15. Scraping Tools The round nose, square nose, spear point, right skew and left skew are scraping tools, used chiefly in pattern work and sometimes in face-plate work.

  16. This operation is done with the toe or acute angle of the 1/2" or 1/4" skew chisel.

  17. In cutting a long straight taper the skew chisel is used, much in the same manner as in ordinary cylinder work, except that at the start of each cut the heel must be the cutting point.

  18. After sharpening, the edges of these tools may be turned with a burnisher or the broad side of a skew chisel in the same manner that the edge of a cabinet scraper is turned though not nearly to so great a degree.

  19. Taper Cuts Taper cutting will not be found hard as the gouge and skew chisel are used in the same manner as described in B-I--1-a, Steps 4 and 5.

  20. Care should be taken that the skew chisel is held at the exact angle of the taper desired.

  21. The skew is used in cutting both to the right and to the left, and therefore, must be beveled on both sides.

  22. For the finishing cut a small skew chisel is used, and the process is the same as that used in squaring ends of stock.

  23. Should it be necessary, however, to use a skew chisel as a scraper, the tool should be held so that the top grind is parallel to the bed of the lathe while in use.

  24. The cut is made with the heel of a small skew chisel, usually the 1/4" or 1/8".

  25. In general practice the ordinary skew chisel should not be used as a scraping tool, for the cutting edge is not sharpened to withstand the heavy strain required by such work.

  26. The bridges of masonry upon the line were of many kinds; several of them were skew bridges, while others, such as those at Newton and over the Irwell at Manchester, were straight and of considerable dimensions.

  27. After many ablutions and a careful toilet, I thought I could skew my face, and I presented myself coolly in the drawing-room.

  28. I entreat you to give me permission to skew your ten stanzas to the abbe.

  29. She quitted her not night nor day, and in the honest pride of a little power to skew the gratefulness of her heart, she felt a pleasure and self-consequence she had never before experienced.

  30. If the student will trace a few of the consequences of that correspondence, and determine what configurations of circles correspond to intersecting lines, to lines in a plane, to lines of a plane pencil, to lines cutting three skew lines, etc.

  31. Suggestions on the general problem of conical skew vaulted roofs.

  32. Helicoidal trompes at the angles of straight arches; voussures or widenings, which it is necessary to substitute near the heads at the intrados of an arch with a considerable skew; case where the skew is not the same for the two heads.

  33. Skew and oblique arches are the subject of detailed plans.

  34. Study of the general problem of skew arches.

  35. On the South Devon Railway, near Plympton, there is a skew bridge 63 deg.

  36. It has two spans of 36 feet each on the square, but the obliquity is so great that the span on the skew is 89 feet.

  37. The skew timber bridge on the Great Western Railway near the Bath Station, carrying the line over the river Avon, was constructed about the same time as the Sonning bridge.

  38. Near Gloucester there are two skew swing bridges somewhat similar to each other in arrangement.

  39. In the skew position I had pushed her to, she began lifting at the stern first, as she ought to have done, and her bows soon followed the example.

  40. This class of bridge, by the avoidance of abutments and counterforts, simplifies the construction of skew arches, while on sharp curves it presents but little obstruction to the view along the line.

  41. Among the skew bridges on Mr. Brunel's railways, there are a few of extreme obliquity.

  42. Over the river at Caermarthen is a skew bridge of three girders, each 116 feet long, for a double line of way.

  43. A similar effect is observed at the opposite side of the glacier on turning round the Echelets; and both combine to form a kind of skew surface.

  44. Line of contact of skew bevel gear wheels, i, 61.

  45. For cutting down the ends, for getting into small square corners, and especially for small work, the skew chisel is more handy than the ordinary chisel, and leaves less work for the sand-paper to do.

  46. This renders this form of gearing preferable to skew bevels when employed upon vertical shafts.

  47. The end A is bevelled off on both sides like a skew chisel.

  48. By this means skew and [T]-shaped dies can be dispensed with, and the full service of the ram utilised.

  49. Another tool, very useful to the pattern-maker, is the skew chisel, which is also described in connection with hand turning.

  50. I Inclination of skew bevel teeth, i, 61.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aberration; angle; asymmetric; asymmetrical; awry; bend; bent; bias; cockeyed; corner; crook; crooked; curve; declination; deflect; departure; detour; deviate; diffuse; digression; dip; discursion; disparate; disperse; dispersed; disproportionate; distort; distorted; diverge; divergence; diversion; divert; double; drift; edge; errantry; excursion; goggle; hairpin; inadequate; indirection; insufficient; irregular; lateral; lurch; mismatched; oblique; odd; prejudice; pull; rambling; refract; scatter; scattered; sheer; shift; shifting; sidestep; sidle; skew; skewed; skid; slant; slope; squint; squinting; straying; sway; sweep; swerve; swerving; swinging; tack; turn; turning; twist; unbalance; unequal; uneven; upset; variation; veer; wandering; warp; wry; zigzag