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Example sentences for "triplets"

Lexicographically close words:
triplanes; triple; tripled; triples; triplet; triplex; triplicate; triplicity; triply; tripod
  1. Triplets and doublets too may be exposed by dipping them sidewise into oil, thus removing the prismatic refraction almost completely, as the oil has about the same refractive index as the stone.

  2. In an express wagon bumping over the brick piles and broken streets was a mother who gave birth to triplets in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park a week later.

  3. All the triplets were living and apparently doing well.

  4. In this narrow park strip where the triplets were born fifteen other babies came into the world on the same fateful night, and, strange as it seems, every one of the mothers and every one of the infants had been reported as doing well.

  5. I told the triplets that I might find them employment with our concern, but they prefer to follow in the footsteps of their mother and father, and return to the stage.

  6. Any man who falls in love with one of the Nettleton triplets will never be sure just which one he fell in love with.

  7. The two triplets of d each cast out an atom on dissociation, and form two pairs and two units.

  8. The globe forms two quintets on the meta level, and these are resolved into triplets and duads.

  9. We have only to consider the new meta- and hyper-compounds of the highest sphere within the funnel, and the two triplets and one quintet from the connecting rod.

  10. On that level, the decades disintegrate into two triplets and a quartet, the positive with the depressions inward, the negative with the depressions outward.

  11. The latter breaks up into two triplets and a unit on the hyper-level.

  12. Niobium only differs from yttrium by the introduction of triplets for duads in e; on the meta level we have therefore triplets, and on the hyper each triplet yields a duad and a unit.

  13. The body a splits up into triplets on the hyper; b and d follow their iron and silicon models; c yields four duads and a unit; e breaks into four quartets.

  14. They break up, on the meta level as shown in the diagram, and are all reduced to triplets and duads on the hyper level.

  15. On the meta level the "cigar" breaks up as usual, and the triplets separate.

  16. About the existence of the triplets in Jude, and their absence in 2 Peter, there can be no question, whatever view we may hold as to their significance.

  17. Others would urge that such triplets would be just the things to be overlooked or disregarded by the borrower, and that, therefore, St. Jude is the original.

  18. Aplanatic triplets 64-68 can only be used on stands with rack and pinion adjustment.

  19. The first figure represents the plan of our low power objectives, and it will be noted that they consist of two doublets, or triplets each carefully corrected.

  20. The =aplanatic triplets after Steinheil= are remarkable for their large, flat field and excellent definition, free from chromatic aberration.

  21. No, Mrs. Morley was a widow with triplets and money.

  22. The children departed amidst the stormy laughter of Morley, and it was Anne's task to see that the triplets were put comfortably to bed.

  23. Morley and his wife returned to The Elms, and instead of having a new governess the triplets went to school.

  24. Towards the evening he asked his wife not to bring the triplets to the library as usual, as he had to see some one on business.

  25. Mrs. McKail's keen grey eyes wander to the fat, rosy little man who laughingly struggled amidst a bevy of children, the triplets included.

  26. The only case of triplets I have met with, but not his children.

  27. The last movement may be counted among the curiosities of composition--a presto in B flat minor of seventy-five bars, an endless series of triplets from beginning to end in octaves.

  28. The first section with its triplets bubbles forth and sparkles like a fountain on which the sunbeams that steal through the interstices of the overhanging foliage are playing.

  29. My wife and I are like turtle-doves, and my triplets already love each other like Castor and Pollux.

  30. Monsieur," said the attorney who was settling the estate, "your worthy aunt instructed me to recommend you to be faithful to your wife, and to give your little triplets a good education.

  31. The extreme nervous tensity is emphasized almost beyond endurance by the incessant syncopated triplets of the strings.

  32. With triplets discard one, your chance of getting fours is remote, and you leave your opponents in doubt as to whether you are not trying for a flush.

  33. With triplets you may generally risk seeing your opponent.

  34. The triplets continued to stand in a neat row, the buttons of their foils aligned and resting on the hardwood floor.

  35. The next eleven triplets introduce the presiding genius of the pageant.

  36. It will be noticed that at this point one series of the interwoven triplets is concluded.

  37. Maud keeps the books; the triplets keep getting into mischief, and Eve, so far as I know, keeps out.

  38. And the triplets thought differently every day.

  39. But I think we had better send the triplets away.

  40. The triplets were not only as like as three lovely vases cast in the same mould but it amused them to dress alike, without so much as the differentiation of a ribbon, and to imitate each other's little tricks of speech and gesture.

  41. The triplets sat in a row upon a bench made of little birch logs with the bark on.

  42. From the middle of this page on to the end, the descending chords and octaves were likened to ghostly footsteps, while the broken triplets in the left hand accompaniment seem to indicate drops of blood.

  43. The variation in triplets seems at first sight almost a caricature, a burlesque on the theme, but I don't think that Schumann had any such idea.

  44. The interpretations in the case of more than triplets appear to have been consistently unfavorable.

  45. For sheep and goats the number was extended up to ten, though it probably never happened that more than triplets were ever born to an ewe or to a mother-goat.

  46. Thus, twins being regarded as significant and triplets even more so, the priests did not stop at this point but provided for cases when four, five six up to eight and more infants were born at one time[18].

  47. From this to two pairs is a long step, and a player who invariably held triplets would, in the long run, be a heavy winner.

  48. The characteristic element is the mixture of triplets and eighth notes.

  49. Carmen's song, divested of the mixture of triplets and dual rhythms (Spanish or Moorish) is akin to the "howl.

  50. In the Andante the passages leading to the second theme are extremely difficult (where oboe and clarinet, and the second time flute and clarinet, have triplets of semi-quavers).

  51. For instance, in the newly added movement there is a part for three flutes which have to play triplets for twenty-two bars, without a break.

  52. No one will induce me to believe this passage [Illustration: musical notation] is difficult to play on the oboe or clarinet, or that the flutes cannot play twenty-two bars of triplets in a rapid tempo.

  53. So easy is it for us Triplets to draw the wool over the eyes of women and Woffingtons.

  54. Ere the month was out, I am sorry to say, the Triplets were reduced to a state of beggary.

  55. The Wrigley triplets once more correct by exercise their sluggish livers.

  56. Boson’s triplets are mostly of ten-syllabled lines, Lhuyd’s are generally of eight syllables, but sometimes of nine or even ten and eleven.

  57. The triplets of old Welsh and perhaps of very old Cornish are effective metres, but are not so easy as they look, for it is not enough merely to write rhyming triplets.

  58. An expressive recitative is followed by a single movement (allegro, F minor) in incessant agitation, the almost uninterrupted triplets of the stringed instruments giving it the character of trembling unrest.


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