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Example sentences for "steady stream"

  • Divisions, Brigades and Battalions vied with each other in predatory expeditions, even in broad daylight, into the enemy's ground, and a steady stream of prisoners and machine guns flowed in.

  • Active patrolling was maintained and continued to yield a steady stream of prisoners.

  • Hour after hour a steady stream of omnibus convoys came in.

  • A steady stream of visitors also set in, including numbers of General Staff Officers, who had been sent down from other Corps and Armies to gather information as to the methods employed.

  • A steady stream of reinforcements was made out coming from Spytfontein and the extreme right of the Boer lines, and there were signs that the enemy was, in his turn, preparing a flanking attack against the British right.

  • Three battalions were ordered out to replace the men lost at Nicholson's Nek, but a steady stream of reinforcements was not kept flowing towards the Cape.

  • From the summit already trickled a steady stream of men towards the rear--towards the point where among the mimosas a hospital had begun its merciful work.

  • From the start, a steady stream of people in search of freedom and opportunity have left their own lands to make this land their home.

  • The great wealth created by our enterprise and industry, and saved by our economy, has had the widest distribution among our own people, and has gone out in a steady stream to serve the charity and the business of the world.

  • Without this success over German submarines, we could not have built up our invasion forces or air forces in Great Britain, nor could we have kept a steady stream of supplies flowing to them after they had landed in France.

  • Because of the lack of telephone communication it was impossible to send reinforcements to the troops that had been held up by barbed wire and other emplacements and upon which German machine guns were pouring a steady stream of death.

  • General March, who had earlier been appointed Chief of Staff of the United States army, was sending a steady stream of American troops to Europe, a fact whose importance was well understood by the new Commander-in-Chief.

  • Stretching from the sector of seacoast set apart for America by the French Government, it radiated far into the interior, delivering men, munitions and food in a steady stream.

  • Pressure of a Steady Stream in a Uniform Pipe on a Plane normal to the Direction of Motion.

  • Send a stream of electrons through the turns of the coil--a steady stream such as comes from the battery shown in the figure.

  • Now connect a battery to the receiver winding and allow a steady stream of electrons to flow.

  • Suppose the switch is closed and a steady stream of electrons is flowing through the coil from a to b.

  • They seemed in no hurry, and from scuffling, laughing, and a steady stream of talk, they were entertained at least.

  • The house is so big I get lost, and I do not know yet which are servants and which friends; and there is a steady stream of seamstresses and milliners making things for me.

  • When you turn a bottle of water upside down the water gurgles out instead of coming out in a smooth, steady stream.

  • We have talked about making electricity work when it flows in a steady stream, and everybody knows that it makes lights glow, makes toasters and electric stoves hot, and heats electric irons.

  • You can tell when a teakettle boils by watching the spout to see when the steam[3] pours forth from it in a strong, steady stream.

  • Beginning with the noise and confusion at the pier, there is a steady stream of individuals on whom shadows are lost, though they have nothing on them but their skins and their sulus.

  • A steady stream of straggling shadows moved along like spirits upon the banks of the river Styx.

  • From the other corner a steady stream of lava issues into the main pool, and the whole thumps and thuds and sputters and spouts, restless, toiling eternally.

  • The pump did its work excellently, and a steady stream of muddy water gushed from its nozzle and flowed down the Headquarters gutter-pipes to a selected spot well behind the trenches.

  • They were still coming in, being attended to and passed out in a steady stream, but somehow there seemed less rush, less urgency, less haste on the part of the bearers to be back for a fresh load.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    active duty; always made; and out; brief speech; burning taste; calling upon; cannot know; entirely absent; fair knight; final appeal; forty dollars; give you; green satin; much affected; others have; peace establishment; place them; polar bear; rural school; slave labor; steady decline; steady fire; steady hand; steady oven; steady stream; sunny bank