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Example sentences for "spools"

Lexicographically close words:
spoofing; spook; spooks; spooky; spool; spoon; spoonbills; spooney; spoonful; spoonfull
  1. He investigated the glands present in the various families, and the particular arrangement of the spools and spigots on the spinnerets.

  2. Now the point that I wish to make clear is that there is no interweaving of the output of these various spools and spigots.

  3. Altamont continued: "They are spools on which strips of films are wound and on which pictures have been taken of books, page by page.

  4. Not printed and bound books, but spools of microfilm.

  5. It took me two and a half years to get the information collected onto these story spools and smuggle them out to you.

  6. He has all the necessary furniture, in addition to audioceivers and story spools which he can change once a week.

  7. When unpacked, the one which had been brought was found to be without shuttles, spools and needles.

  8. It was his duty to remove full spools and replace them by empty ones, and he did this duty for sixteen spinning frames.

  9. Seems to me he looks on us like he does the spools on the spinners.

  10. Add a row of six spools along the empty space between the front and back of the house for the fourth side, as in Fig.

  11. You could make an extensive flower garden by using a great number of these short, flat spools and bits of gay tissue-paper, and they can be arranged and rearranged in many different ways.

  12. Leave windows on the opposite side of the car in the same way, and place a row of spools close up against the bottom spools of each side of the car to form the car seats.

  13. Enclose the yard with a spool fence; standing the spools a short distance from each other, as in the photograph.

  14. Build the back parallel to the front by standing nine spools at right angles with the side.

  15. The washstand can be four spools quite close together covered with a piece of paper.

  16. Over these lay a piece of pasteboard about six inches long and four inches wide, allowing it to project beyond the front feet to form the apron; then build on the body of the stove, making it of spools two layers deep, as in Fig.

  17. About two inches distant and on a line with the triangle of spools stand a group of three more spools, and build up each group into a column four spools high.

  18. At the base of the arch add three more spools on each side, o and o (Fig.

  19. Lay the spools down flat and rest the edge of the box lid on the body of the spools; then stand a row of eleven spools on each side of the top of the box lid.

  20. When the trolley is taken apart use the spools in building =A Bridge= Fig.

  21. The decorations of the table are small spools with bright tissue-paper for flowers arranged at the four corners of the table, and the plates are the round pasteboard tops from milk bottles.

  22. Build up the spools three deep into pillars; then lay a piece of pasteboard on the top of the columns for a ceiling.

  23. Commence with two groups of spools a short distance apart; have three in each group, two in the back and one in the front.

  24. Let the seats for the doll children be rows of three spools each.

  25. You can top the chimney by laying a piece of cardboard over the last spool and placing two small spools on it side by side.

  26. If inch and one-half spools are used for the car wheels, the inside gauge of the tracks should be an inch and three-quarters.

  27. In order to drive them into the exact centres of the spools, it is best to locate these points upon the ends of the pegs before placing the spools in the frame.

  28. By saving the empty spools from your mother's work-basket, and having your friends save their spools for you, it will not be very long until you have the required number.

  29. Procure two one and one-half inch spools for wheels, and drive a wooden peg through the hole in each, cutting off the ends so they project a little beyond the hole, as shown in Fig.

  30. String six spools on each rope and put the ropes through the holes in the next shelf; then string six more spools on each rope and run the ropes through the next or top shelf.

  31. Fasten small silk-spools to the front of the drawers for knobs.

  32. Spools upon which number thirty-six cotton thread comes are of the best length.

  33. The hole in one of these spools is about three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, so, in order to make it fit tightly upon the nail, it is necessary to fill in around the nail with sealing-wax.

  34. The rims of the spools extended slightly beyond the outer face of the door and rolled against the sill.

  35. The washers were fastened to the inner ends of the spools after they had been pushed through the hole.

  36. At the lower end two more spools were mounted, turning on nails driven in the bottom edge of the door.

  37. In the door and the top board of the frame, holes were drilled just large enough for the shanks of the spools to fit snugly in them.

  38. Save all the empty spools, and when any dyeing is done in the household, drop the spools into the fluid for a few minutes, and they will make fine playthings for the children on a rainy day.

  39. A new magazine and a few books, and a little basket containing thimble, needles, scissors and several spools of cotton complete the conveniences arranged for the guest.

  40. Find me something to put the tape spools and notebooks in, while I'm getting them in order.

  41. He secured a large game bag from under a rack of fowling pieces, and held it while she sorted the material rapidly, stuffing spools of record tape and notebooks into it.

  42. The bullet had hit the game bag at her side; it was full of spools of metal tape, in metal cases, and notes in written form, pyrographed upon sheets of plastic ring fastened into metal binders.

  43. Mother sews with her spools of cotton, and uses her scissors to make little Mary frocks and aprons, and if Mary takes any thing out of her work-basket, she can't do her sewing good.

  44. When she got back, Mary had her work-basket on the floor, rummaging through it for buttons and spools of cotton.

  45. Spools are handier, because each can be wound separately, and then be slipped in place.

  46. Around the spools or screws, fasten a pasteboard band, G, on which to wind the wire.

  47. The spools of wire purchased can then be placed upon the dowel, where they will unwind evenly.

  48. The spools may be pushed onto dowels which are fastened into the vertical piece.

  49. The spools A and B are fastened in this way, by set-screws, to D.

  50. The Coil is wound around 2 ordinary spools which are glued to a vertical piece, which, in turn, is screwed to a base.

  51. In the box I could see, besides other apparatus, two good sized spools of fine wire.

  52. As you can see there are no discs or cylinders, but these spools of extremely fine steel wire.

  53. When he reached the upper floor, he found men with axe and hammer destroying the old woodwork, breaking the old jennies, pitching the balls of lead into baskets, and throwing the spools into crates.

  54. The boxes were broken, the spools spilled all over—pawing was again in season.

  55. Majestically, energetically, he dumped my black spools out of one box, my white spools out of the other—dumped them back with a flourish into the mess of unassorted dust and colors.

  56. What was my joy then when one day the boss told me to put the spools in order.

  57. Peter will think the house is haunted if he comes in and hears him rolling spools around up there.

  58. Does Blackberry have to roll spools across the floor?

  59. A hanging lamp, with its fringe of glittering pendants, hung over a table made of spools like the bookshelves, and covered with a drape of tissue paper table-napkins, cut into a deep fringe around the edge.

  60. Let forty full spools be placed in the skarne, one above the other.

  61. The shuttles and spools are made by machinery; and more important still, both warp and weft is purchased ready-spun from mills.

  62. The thread had been dyed before spooling and the vari-colored cob-spools could be arranged to make stripes lengthwise of the cloth; and the hanks had also been dipped in a boiling-hot sizing made of meal and water.

  63. When the piece is to be set, a large number of shuttles and spools are filled in advance.

  64. A warp of two hundred threads was designated as a warp of five bouts, and the bars had to be filled five times to set it unless a larger skarne with more spools was used.

  65. Spools were turned and marked with the maker's initials.

  66. The full spools are then placed in a row one above the other in a spool-holder, sometimes called a skarne or scarne.

  67. Both quills for the weft and spools for the warp may be wound from the swift by a quilling-wheel, small wheels of various shapes, some being like a flax-wheel, but more simple in construction.

  68. The free ends of threads from the spools are gathered in the hand, and fastened to a pin at the top of the warping-bars.

  69. Long chains of spools of bright-coloured silks strung on cords were hung near that case of drawers.

  70. The spools had large, clear numbers on them.

  71. The spools in the case alongside the teacher's chair could be wire recordings.

  72. That meant the spools could be played right in that position.

  73. In front of each chair, firmly attached to the table, was a box with a screen, and both sides of the box held spools of wire on blunt little spindles.

  74. Near the teacher's chair was a compact case with more spools on spindles, and there was a large screen on the inside wall, opposite the enormous windows.

  75. It is as effective for long distances as for short, and there is wire enough on one of these spools for thirty minutes of uninterrupted record.

  76. He lifted the lid of the box, and inside I could see two shiny caps which in turn he lifted, disclosing what looked like two good-sized spools of wire.

  77. There are no disks or cylinders of wax, as in the phonograph, but two large spools of extremely fine steel wire.

  78. Children may derive a lot of fun from a large supply of empty spools of all shapes and sizes.

  79. For the "army" gather together as many spools of the same size as you can, numbering each one.

  80. As the spools are found, the children see if the letters on them spell a flower.

  81. The object is to find such spools as form a name.

  82. Stand all the spools in a row, those forming names standing together.


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