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Example sentences for "tool"

Lexicographically close words:
took; tooke; tooked; tooken; tookest; tooled; tooles; tooling; tools; toom
  1. The prime mover in that matter is the Baroness Bonnar, and her tool was the Honorable George Brunow.

  2. Too late now he doubted Christian to be no tool for handling with impunity.

  3. So well dreaded was his strength, that on a misconstruction of his aim, every tool that might serve as a weapon was caught up and thrust hastily from the window, while more of the rowan danced down.

  4. A tool made of high speed steel will not lose its temper and will keep its cutting edge hour after hour if they are kept cool by a stream of water running on them.

  5. A steel tool having a sharp edge for cutting out special designs in paper, metals, etc.

  6. Your first effort in this direction should be to hire a good foreman; this, though, is not an easy thing to do for a foreman must be something more than a thorough machinist who can use any tool or run any machine.

  7. By this method you will know exactly where your tools and stock went to; and when a man returns a tool credit him with it.

  8. In a shaper the work is held in a fixed position on the table, which can be raised and lowered by a hoisting screw, and the tool is made to move across the table by a quick-acting return motion.

  9. That tool is safer in God's hands than in ours.

  10. But, my dear, discipline is a sharp-edged tool which men do well to let alone, except for children.

  11. We have lived to see the descendants of that Hungarian generation spreading untold atrocities through Polish towns and villages as the tool of Prussia in the recent war.

  12. The King who had been his patron was the tool of Catherine II and through her of Russia.

  13. The girl helped herself to a hatchet in the tool box--the sacred tool box of his father.

  14. An old plane blade, fastened to a stick with nails, was all the axe and spade he had, yet with this he set to work and offset its poorness as a tool by dogged persistency.

  15. To what end was that subservient tool suborned, and afterward, with trusting wife, murderously assaulted in deserted Calcutta suburb?

  16. It is now sure that Dodge is the tool of the Laniers.

  17. William Dodge would explain that in bringing the London suit he was only a pliant tool of the Laniers, and they would blame all on him.

  18. There is no miracle in the fact that tool and material are adapted to each other in the process of reaching a valid conclusion.

  19. To conceive of thinking as instrumental to truth or knowledge, and as a tool shaped out of the same subject-matter as that to which it is applied, is but to return to the Aristotelian tradition about logic.

  20. We do not measure the worth or reality of the tool by its closeness to its natural prototype, but by its efficiency in doing its work--which connotes a great deal of intervening art.

  21. But, in truth, both material and tool have been secured and determined with reference to economy and efficiency in effecting the end desired--the maintenance of a harmonious experience.

  22. In the latter case the external scaffolding is not the instrumentality; the actual tool is the action of erecting the building, and this action involves the scaffolding as a constituent part of itself.

  23. Next I ran some numbers and showed them how profitable it would be to acquire a certain tool company that now owned the patent on a terrific drill bit.

  24. Although there was a time in this century when the militarists once again made a tool of the emperor of Japan, I agree it was wrong.

  25. Usually the table is kept in front of the window with tool racks and shelves for small articles each side of the same where they can easily be reached.

  26. With some blunt tool pry the skin of the back of the ear from the cartilage and turn the ears wrong side out to their tips.

  27. A small screw driver with the edge blunted and rounded is a good tool for this work as it will not readily cut the thin skin of the ears.

  28. Fill the back of the sockets with tow or cotton and with a little spoon-shaped modeling tool give this and the inner surface of the lids a good coating of soft clay.

  29. With the same tool pry the thick skin away from the frontal bone.

  30. In so far as he is Islamized, the negro's warlike propensities will be inflamed, and he will be used as the tool of Arab Pan-Islamism seeking to drive the white man from Africa and make the continent its very own.

  31. The Indian even lost his cultural heritage, and became a passive tool in the hands of his white masters.

  32. The black race offers no real danger except as the tool of Pan-Islamism.

  33. They lived much more in the open when they had no tree-felling tool but a stone-axe and did not build cabins.

  34. Adelaide asked, and Winnie replied: "Professor Waite wanted to use his screw-driver and went to his tool chest after it during the painting lesson to-day.

  35. Did I not find the lock of this door in his tool chest?

  36. Ah, my dear sir, we protest when we read that might is placed before right, yet we applaud when in practise we see might play the hypocrite in not only perverting right but even in using it as a tool in order to gain control.

  37. With his money he had been able to secure the General's appointment and, once in the Philippines, he had used him as a blind tool and incited him to all kinds of injustice, availing himself of his insatiable lust for gold.

  38. Thence -er seems a far less fitting ending for a tool-name than the old Saxon -el; and a tool for the whetting of knives would be more fitly called a whettel than a whetter.

  39. The tech was finished, he snapped his tool box shut and left.

  40. Druce had a mechanic's coveralls on over his street suit and a tool box slung under one arm.

  41. The ground was then ready for the digging-stick, a tool which does little credit to the inventive powers of the Fijians considering their ingenuity in other directions.

  42. A jury like that is palpably nothing but a mere tool of oppression in the hands of the government.

  43. The king also could make and unmake "justices" at his pleasure; and if he could appoint any officers whatever to preside over juries in criminal trials, he could appoint any tool that he might at any time find adapted to his purpose.

  44. Reflection and experience will teach him to work better; and the first tool he makes will furnish him with the means of fabricating others, and of accumulating provisions with greater promptitude.

  45. Is there any portion of gratuitous Utility which we can replace by onerous Utility; for example, by prohibiting the use of a tool or a machine?

  46. To be a living, willing Tool of God, wherewith God works what He will and how He will," is the goal of transcendence described in the last chapter of The Sparkling Stone.

  47. He goes up and down the mountain of vision, a living willing tool wherewith God works.

  48. An American axe is too beautiful a tool for that rude work.

  49. I never could use this ungainly tool aright: a top-heavy, clumsy, awkward thing, it rules you instead of you ruling it.

  50. A dexterous woodman can swing his tool alternately left hand or right hand uppermost.

  51. Another spell of digging--this time still slower because Little John was afraid lest the edge of his tool should suddenly slip through and cut his ferret on the head, and perhaps kill it.

  52. I gave the 'navigator' tool a heave over the hedge; it fell and stuck upright in the sward.

  53. Katerfelto, scanning narrowly the resolute countenance and strong active frame, smiled to think that here was a tool shaped expressly for his purpose.

  54. He sneaked in like the thief that he was because his accomplice and tool had failed to save him the trouble.

  55. That humble tool might have been of great advantage to him at this moment.

  56. I learn it from a scoundrel called Merritt, a tool of Henson.

  57. Later on she will use Merritt, and a fine hard-cutting tool she will find him.

  58. Van Sneck has been a tool and creature of Henson's for years.

  59. Had he been tricked and fooled so that he might become the tool of others?

  60. And this tradition, begun under Hanna, was continued under Roosevelt, and reached its finest flower in the days of Taft, the most pliant tool of the forces of evil who has occupied the White House since the days of the Slave Power.


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