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Example sentences for "thicknesses"

Lexicographically close words:
thicketed; thickets; thickish; thickly; thickness; thickset; thicky; thider; thie; thief
  1. Put at least three thicknesses of buttered letter-paper on the sides and bottom; turn in the mixture, and bake for three hours in a moderate oven.

  2. Closets should be put in order first; all winter clothing packed in trunks, or put in bags made from several thicknesses of newspaper, printers' ink being one of the most effectual protections against moths.

  3. These four or five thicknesses of wood pulling against each other neutralise all bad effects, and the result is very good.

  4. In flats or apartments, where the garbage can must be kept in the kitchen, it is a good plan to wrap the garbage in many thicknesses of newspaper and put these bundles into the can.

  5. The bottom of the block must have several thicknesses of heavy material tacked over it.

  6. Spread several thicknesses of flannel or thick folds of cotton cloth over the ironing board, this padding will bring the embroidery out in high relief.

  7. The board is first padded with several thicknesses of blanket or felt stretched smooth; a clean, white cotton cloth is then stretched over it and sewed or tacked very neatly along one edge and at the ends.

  8. Her decks were covered with extra thicknesses of planking; the chain cables were brought up from below and ranged as an additional protection.

  9. The Queen of the West was chosen and prepared with two thicknesses of cotton bales.

  10. Flannel is wrung out in water, 75 to 80 degrees temperature and laid in several thicknesses upon the abdomen; place a dry towel over this, cover all with oiled silk, overlapping widely in order to protect the bed.

  11. Kitchen mittens can be bought in several thicknesses and sizes for various branches of housework.

  12. Wring a cloth from vinegar and wrap several thicknesses around the cheese to keep it from moulding and drying.

  13. Cold Compresses are made by using two or three thicknesses of lint or linen wrung out of cold water or ice water and applied over the inflamed part, and changed frequently.

  14. Strain it for infants through a thick layer of absorbent cotton or through several thicknesses of cheese-cloth into quart jars or milk bottles, covered and cooled immediately.

  15. It is a good plan to have a piece of rubber sheet or several thicknesses of old newspapers covered with a bath towel to put under the bedpan in bed.

  16. Fold in frayed edges, two or three thicknesses will be heavy enough, and have two, large enough to cover the forehead.

  17. Heretofore it has been necessary to do the adjusting by means of inserting different thicknesses of cardboard, paper, etc.

  18. Different thicknesses in the screen plates are allowed for by means of a spring which always holds the plate in accurate place, no matter what its thickness may be.

  19. Table showing the Proportions of Double Riveted Lap Joints for various Thicknesses of Plates.

  20. Table showing the Proportions of Single Riveted Lap Joints for various Thicknesses of Plates.

  21. Although their faces were covered with several thicknesses of black chiffon, they modestly placed them against the wall and stood there, three shapeless bundles, until we were out of sight.

  22. But if linen or cotton be worn, the garment is soon moistened by perspiration, and two or three additional thicknesses are needed to protect the child against the ill-effects of a draught.

  23. These differences are due to the different thicknesses of the film.

  24. They occur between the dark rings, the thicknesses to which they correspond being also intermediate between those of the dark ones.

  25. Different colours, therefore, must appear at different thicknesses of the film.

  26. The two thicknesses of cambric are all you need.

  27. All you need to do is to fasten your cloth tightly down on to your table four thicknesses instead of one.

  28. The foundation for this building was to be of stone, and the entire floor of cement; and the walls were to be sealed within and sheeted without, and then covered with ship lap boards, making three thicknesses of boards.

  29. The walls of the house to be of three thicknesses of lumber with two air spaces (one four inches, the other two) without filling.

  30. Now allow juice to drip through a jelly bag or through two thicknesses of cheese-cloth, boil twenty minutes and add equal quantity of sugar, boil five minutes, skim and turn in glasses.

  31. It is best to line the box and cover with a thickness of heavy paper or several thicknesses of newspaper; asbestos sheeting may be used instead of paper.

  32. These should be of varying lengths and thicknesses and made in sets of twelve steps, with two boards to each step, twenty-four slabs to a set.

  33. Shares that at first represented so many dollars per foot in a tangible mine were multiplied and remultiplied until they came to represent paper thicknesses or almost nothing, yet still their prices mounted upward.

  34. The material used was quilted linen of many thicknesses glued together.

  35. This is turned under till the running thread forms the edge and then the buttonholing is worked through both thicknesses of the material.

  36. Let the end of your threaded needle fall between the two thicknesses of the material.

  37. Take a stitch right through all the thicknesses of the material.

  38. Pin the pattern down securely and cut through both thicknesses of the material (Figure 53).

  39. To pad, lay strips two or three thicknesses deep around the hoop and then wind thickly like the other hoop.

  40. Place the pins through the tissue pattern and both thicknesses of the material, letting the head and the point of the pin be visible to the eye.

  41. Cut any part of a garment such as sleeves, waist, or skirt through two thicknesses of material so that both sides will be exactly alike.

  42. At the corners it will be necessary to take up both thicknesses of the material.

  43. A piece of cardboard, or two or three thicknesses of paper, are then slipped in between the end paper and the back board to prevent the latter from being cut by the knife.

  44. The object of cutting past the centre at each fold is to avoid the unsightly creasing that results from folding two or more thicknesses of paper when joined at the top edge.

  45. Thus in a book with twenty sections there will be in the back, in addition to the thickness of the paper, twenty thicknesses of thread.

  46. To do this, both thicknesses of leather are cut through from the corner of the board to the corner of the inside margin.

  47. Such a filter has, however, the disadvantage that there are three thicknesses of paper back of half of its filtering surface, as a consequence of which one half of a precipitate washes or drains more slowly.

  48. In the Appalachian region the strata are seven or eight miles thick, and still greater thicknesses have been measured in several other mountain ranges.

  49. Pre-Cambrian time probably was longer than all later geological time down to the present, as we may infer from the vast thicknesses of its rocks and the unconformities which part them.

  50. The rock of the intrusive masses is coarsely crystalline, and no doubt solidified slowly under the pressure of vast thicknesses of overlying rock, now mostly removed by erosion.

  51. Several thicknesses of flannel are taken, wrung out of very hot water, covered with cotton batting, and then with oiled silk.

  52. The belt was made of two thicknesses of leather stitched together all along the top and bottom edge; and it was a portion of this stitching along the top edge that struck me as differing somewhat in appearance from the rest.

  53. The dehydrating agent may be placed in a glass vessel or dish in such a way as to be unseen, or it may be covered with two or three thicknesses of dark gauze or with black cardboard laid loosely over it.

  54. If the temperature with this treatment be not sufficiently reduced, one or two thicknesses of muslin frequently wrung out of ice-water should be placed along the arms and upon either side of the face.

  55. Baste this fold down over the raw edge sewing through the three thicknesses of cloth.

  56. The overhand patch is used on very thin material, such as lawn, dimity or organdy, where strength is not required and where the two thicknesses of cloth around the edge of the hemmed patch would be too noticeable.

  57. Stitch through the three thicknesses of cloth a quarter of an inch from the edge.

  58. Place the long facing to the back of this same side with the right side of facing to the wrong side of the cloth, thus having the three thicknesses of cloth together.


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