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Example sentences for "being applied"

  • This mechanical force is likewise capable of being applied to any useful purpose for which labour or power is necessary.

  • He is here charged with incest, as the phrase repudium remittere properly applies to a wife, or one betrothed (divortium being applied to a wife only).

  • Equal straight lines or angles, being applied to one another, coincide.

  • What is more, the minuter examination which that higher order of empirical laws presupposes, being applied to the subject-matter of these, not only does not confirm but actually refutes them.

  • We could replace the approximate generalizations by propositions universally true; but these would hardly ever be capable of being applied to practice.

  • This is true, not of machinery alone, but of all improvements by which capital is sunk; that is, rendered permanently incapable of being applied to the maintenance and remuneration of labor.

  • But this labor is more effective for its end by being applied to fresh soil than if it were employed in bringing the soil already occupied into higher cultivation.

  • Sometimes, especially when applied to the scalp, the cups fill so rapidly with blood as to become detached almost immediately on being applied.

  • Fomentations are distinguished from lotions chiefly in being applied in a heated state, and in larger quantities, and for a longer period at a time.

  • This form affords a firm grip to the hand, the end E being applied to the operator's shoulder.

  • Being applied to the temples and forehead it easeth also the headache and distempered heat of the brain through want of sleep.

  • A segment of a copper sphere, also lined with silver stops the aperture of the silver cylinder, being applied closely to its rim.

  • It differs from stricture in being applied especially to diffused rather than localized contractions, and in always indicating an origin organic and not spasmodic.

  • The scientific sense of velocity differs from the popular sense in being applied to all rates of motion, however slow, while the latter implies more or less rapidity or quickness of motion.

  • It opens obstructions of the liver, mollifies the hardness of the spleen, being applied outwardly.

  • Being applied to the place bitten by venomous beasts, or stung by a wasp or hornet, it speedily draws the poison to it; Every like draws his like.

  • But some do advise to put a little salt for this purpose, being applied with a little hog’s lard, it helps a plague sore, and other boils and pushes.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being apprehended; being attached; being born; being captured; being caught; being come; being confined; being contrary; being destroyed; being disturbed; being haunted; being heard; being heated; being ignorant; being introduced; being invisible; being married; being moved; being nearly; being once; being one; being permitted; being poor; being presented; being quite; being unable