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Example sentences for "appliance"

Lexicographically close words:
apple; applejack; apples; applesauce; appliable; appliances; applicability; applicable; applicant; applicants
  1. There is not a strait-waistcoat or a single appliance for restraint in the whole colony.

  2. It is used as the auxiliary of the other, which is finely fitted with every appliance of modern science.

  3. But, above all, only by the appliance of science and technique does the peasant attain the full development of a civilized human being, while to-day he is the slave of his property and the helot of his creditor.

  4. The Energy of Labor and Appliance of the Electric Current" by Fr.

  5. This simple appliance has opened up for coal-gas a sphere of usefulness for heating purposes as important as its use for lighting.

  6. It was contact on the battle front that developed a protective appliance and organisation, by giving us an insight into enemy appliances and projects.

  7. The distinction lies rather in the magnitude and incidence of use of the chemical appliance on the battle-field, while depending on its novel nature.

  8. By removing the possibility of detecting the dangerous chemical, they enforce the permanent use of the protective appliance or encourage a fatal carelessness in the individual soldier.

  9. An examination of our protective device by the Germans obviously led them to believe that resistance to breathing was too great for the protective appliance to be practicable.

  10. This constant vigilance against enemy surprise imposed more conditions upon the troops than the permanent adoption of a protective appliance which, in itself, was a very big thing.

  11. This assumes the existence of a protective appliance and organisation.

  12. But the Germans adopted from the beginning a form of protective appliance in which the drum or cartridge was attached to and supported by the mask.

  13. For smaller birds the appliance is a little rack about four inches high with uprights a few inches apart, between each of which is hung a noose.

  14. Another appliance mentioned by Mr. Ball is a set of long conical bag nets, which are kept open by hooks and provided with a pair of folding doors.

  15. In three cases of shipwreck on the English coast in 1875 the loss of life was directly traceable to the lack of some necessary appliance or to the absence of guards at the stations.

  16. Such cornices have arisen from a mistaken appliance of the running ornaments, which are proper to archivolts, jambs, &c.

  17. For this appliance a good head of water is absolutely essential, as with a low pressure it is very ineffective.

  18. This will serve all purposes, unless a douche and a needle are desired, when the regulating valve of this appliance must be placed conveniently within the bather's reach while standing in the bath.

  19. For this reason, and also because a corner is admirably adapted to receive an appliance of the shape of a needle bath, it is better, often, to fit it up in an angle of the lavatorium.

  20. In other forms of this appliance where the winding is stationary, the interrupter may be operated by a revolving cam, though, if desired, the used of a brush at this point will permit this construction with a revolving winding.

  21. The pump is always a separate appliance attached to the engine and driven by positive gearing or direct-shaft connection.

  22. The filtering device shown at B is a larger appliance than that shown at A, and should be more efficient as a separator because the gasoline is forced to pass through three filtering screens before it reaches the carburetor.

  23. There is no appliance that has more material value upon the efficiency of the internal combustion motor than the carburetor or vaporizer which supplies the explosive gas to the cylinders.

  24. Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliance are reliev'd, Or not at all.

  25. Ask God for temp'rance; that's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

  26. An appliance resembling a small boot furnished with straps, buckles, etc.

  27. An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed instrument.

  28. In my last annual Message the attention of the Congress was called to the necessity of enlarging the safety-appliance law, and it is gratifying to note that this law was amended in important respects.

  29. The =Gourmet Boiler= is a valuable cooking appliance of the same sort.

  30. The best appliance for this purpose is a combination tool--made so that one can slice carrots, etc.

  31. The appliance is used in lieu of dice or coins when two or more customers are "tossing" for drinks.

  32. Almost every appliance within its range is a source of positive enjoyment; the time spent under it is a cheerful holiday to body and mind.

  33. We believe we have mentioned every hydropathic appliance that is in common use, with the exception of what is called the 'rub in a wet sheet.

  34. These vessels are equipped with wireless telegraphy, submarine signalling systems, water-tight compartments and every other safety appliance known to marine skill.

  35. The most up-to-date appliance of this kind was that used in constructing the tunnels connecting New York City with New Jersey under the Hudson River.

  36. It was the superb dignity, the consummate courtesy of this noble Viscount, aided by every appliance of taste and luxury around him, that assured success here.

  37. Yes; and I seem to have dined on old surgical-appliance stock.

  38. At eight o'clock he climbed the dismal stairs of Jordan's Surgical Appliance Factory, and stood helplessly against the first great parcel-rack, waiting for somebody to pick him up.

  39. I am a clerk in Jordan's Appliance Factory.

  40. The Hinterschlag Professors knew syntax enough; and of the human soul thus much: that it had a faculty called Memory, and could be acted-on through the muscular integument by appliance of birch-rods.

  41. The measurement of the capacity of insulated wires can be easily carried out by means of an appliance devised by the author and Mr. W.

  42. The Hertzian radiator is an appliance for acting on the ether as the siren acts on the air.

  43. The mercury in the break is generally covered with alcohol or paraffin oil to reduce oxidation, and the appliance is nearly noiseless when in operation.

  44. As soon as the wave ceases, the chain of metallic particles is re-established, so that the appliance is always in a condition to be affected by a wave.

  45. Mr. Marconi has designed a signalling key which performs the function not only of interrupting the primary circuit, but at the same time breaks connection between the receiving appliance and the aerial.

  46. How strange it is that the discharge of a Leyden jar studied so profoundly by Franklin, Henry, Faraday, Maxwell, Kelvin and Lodge should have become an electrical engineering appliance of great importance!

  47. The types were inked by balls, an appliance which is not more than fifty years out of fashion.

  48. Appliance for developing the Sides of the Waist.

  49. Standing under the handles in an appliance like that represented in Fig.

  50. It would scarcely be possible to hit upon a better appliance for improving these valuable side muscles, and yet without fear of overdoing them.

  51. Appliance for developing the Sides of the Waist 217 " 6.

  52. There is no dearer appliance to the electrician.

  53. Now compare this phenomenon which you have just witnessed with the discharge of a Holtz or Wimshurst machine--that other interesting appliance so dear to the experimenter.

  54. There are two ways of rendering an electric appliance safe.

  55. Such a tube might be placed around a hall or on a ceiling, and at once a simple appliance capable of giving considerable light would be obtained.

  56. But this would be an appliance hard to manufacture and extremely unmanageable.

  57. Of the two, the latter seems to me the better way, for then the safety is absolute, unaffected by any possible combination of circumstances which might render even a low-potential appliance dangerous to life and property.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "appliance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accommodation; advantage; agent; amenity; apparatus; appliance; application; appurtenance; attachment; consumption; contrivance; convenience; creature; device; drive; dummy; dupe; employ; employment; engine; exercise; exertion; facility; fixture; gadget; handmaid; implement; instrument; intermediary; intermediate; lever; machine; machinery; mechanism; mediator; medium; midwife; minion; misuse; motor; operation; organ; pawn; play; plaything; puppet; servant; slave; tool; toy; usage; use; utility; vehicle