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Example sentences for "align"

Lexicographically close words:
alienum; alight; alighted; alighting; alights; aligned; aligning; alignment; alignments; aligns
  1. The arches are older than the present opus quadratum wall, and the road swung round and up to align with the road below and the old wall or escarpment of the city above.

  2. But these arches and the road on them do not align exactly with the terrace on the west.

  3. But the basilica does not quite align with the temple, and the road back of the basilica precludes any such idea, not to mention the fact that no building the size of a temple was in front of the west cave.

  4. Or you can align with Planet Pluto, which is your right as a free and independent nation.

  5. Each utility maneuvered to synchronize axis and align portals.

  6. At all other times the troopers are required habitually to align themselves on the base trooper without special command and to look to the front as soon as aligned.

  7. All the other troopers align themselves promptly on the base trooper, continuing to look toward him until the command, =FRONT=.

  8. The other troopers are then required to move up one at a time and align themselves, with the correct interval, on the line thus established.

  9. The troopers, if not already aligned, align themselves without command on the guide as they halt (par.

  10. To align the squad, the base file or files having been established: =1.

  11. Being in line at a halt, to align the battalion: =1.

  12. If the parts are not in line, the heating may also be remedied by loosening the fit of the parts; but this will often induce a pound or knock, hence the true remedy is to properly align the parts.

  13. In erecting pipe work care must be taken to have it align as true as possible, as well as to have the joints tight enough to stand the required pressure without leakage.

  14. A' is the bed having the angles a a to align the heads and rests.

  15. Here, then, the brasses may be fitted to align the axle perfectly, and it is not permitted to the engineer to alter that alignment, while at the same time the fit of the brass to the journal being made correct, the engineer cannot alter it.

  16. Now, Creamer, take your birds, gun, and one decoy, and align yourself with these oars when you have counted one hundred paces.

  17. It does not follow that if Sazonof was right, Sir Edward Grey was necessarily wrong in declining to align England definitely with Russia and France at that stage.

  18. Therefore, we still use all kinds of strategies to align them, even if they are obliquely random.

  19. This statement does not align itself with explanations of sports given in Freudian tradition, Marxist theory, or in Huizinga's model of the human being as playful man (Homo Ludens).

  20. In the Central Asian conflicts, allegiances are confused-Sunni from Tadjikistan align themselves with the Shiites of Iran, while the Uzbeks pursue the hope of a new pan-Turkish empire.

  21. As an entry in a database (huge by all means), the past sheds its romantic aura, only to align itself with the present and the future.

  22. To show how to align the sights properly on the bull's-eye.

  23. OPEN SIGHT: Always align your sights with the front sight squarely in the middle of the "U" or notch of the rear sight, and the top of the front sight even with the upper corners of the "U.

  24. To align the squad, the base file or files having been established: 1.

  25. Being in line at a halt, to align the battalion: 1.

  26. They foresee that the crucial test is to be given the Institution of Popular Government and they wisely align themselves on the side of the people.

  27. When the chambers do not align perfectly, the bullet enters the barrel eccentrically and a portion of it is shaved off.

  28. The accuracy of the revolver depends largely, too, upon the degree of perfection in which all the chambers of the cylinder align with the bore of the barrel at the instant of discharge.

  29. The earlier practice was to cast the type of a font so that the letters would align at the bottom only with their mates of the same font, without reference to any other face of type.

  30. By the modern lining system, the faces made on any given size of body are cast to align with each other, as shown in the second example [B].

  31. Humor is a weapon, and the humorist has two ends in view: the one to please his audience and to align them on his side, the second to attack either playfully or seriously some person or institution with the technique of humor.

  32. It is not my place to trace the growth in mind of the idea of the Absolute Good, or absolute right and wrong, with which a man must align himself.

  33. In this case the cause of errors in elevation is the great difficulty there is in getting the head down to the stock so as to properly align the foresight with the bottom of the notch or V of the backsight.

  34. The electrode must align perfectly in the vertical plane as shown in B, Figure 7, or the arc will move while burning.

  35. The sprocket should be made to align perfectly with the upper and lower magazines, the fire valves, the film gate, and the path of the film.

  36. The sights are to enable him to align the barrel of his pistol accurately.

  37. When choosing an automatic pistol, shoot it and find out if it lets you align your sights afresh immediately after you have fired.

  38. If a man lowers his head, he can look along the sights, but if he keeps his head up as he should and does in shooting any other pistol, it is very difficult to align the sights except by bending the arm and raising the elbow.

  39. Tell him that as there is only one barrel, it would be difficult to align it without this sight, pointing out to him that his double barrel shotgun can be aligned without this aid as in that case he looks along the rib.

  40. He levelled his rifle, but could not see the fore-sight, so as to align it with the object.

  41. Manes off the fields, 'tis impossible to prune the vine or to align the ridges, for the ground is too wet to-day.

  42. How regularly they will align the plants!

  43. It is the reason that we cultivate the heart/mind and properly align [its][B] form!

  44. So men In their illumination see the frame-work Of life or see its spirit, so align Themselves with Science, Satire, or align Themselves with Poetry or Prophecy.

  45. President Hayes could not, of course, refuse to repress the rioters; nevertheless his action aligned the power of the central government against the strikers, and seemed to the latter to align the government against the laborers as a class.

  46. It is obvious that powerful forces must have been at work to align the party so unitedly in behalf of the Sherman law.

  47. While still in Sugamo prison he had yet another insight: That to succeed in the New Japan it would be necessary to align himself temporarily with the globe's powerful new player, America.

  48. You have to bend your head down low to align the sights.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "align" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    align; allocate; allot; apportion; arrange; array; bank; collect; compose; correspond; deal; dispose; distribute; equalize; equate; even; fell; fix; flatten; flush; follow; grade; lay; level; line; marshal; match; order; parallel; place; rally; range; rank; raze; regiment; roll; row; smooth; space; tune