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Example sentences for "blueprints"

Lexicographically close words:
bluejackets; bluejay; bluejays; blueness; blueprint; bluer; blues; blueskins; bluest; bluestem
  1. The big desk beside him was littered with engineering journals, reports, and blueprints of bridge plans, topped with detail drawings in ink of the long central span.

  2. Griffith averted his head and peered at the blueprints on the nearest wall with unseeing eyes.

  3. He went heavily across the room to the desk, and dropping into a chair, began methodically to gather up and fold the torn and rumpled blueprints upon the floor.

  4. As soon as I showed him the different blueprints and explained the possibilities he understood.

  5. Just ahead, if the blueprints were right, was the door to the control room.

  6. Looking over the original blueprints again, the big superstructure hit my eye.

  7. She wanted her to take a look at the notes and blueprints for Bartlett's Gramercy Park project and scan them into their CAD program.

  8. Do you have any blueprints of this building?

  9. And there were several huge storage files for blueprints and designs.

  10. A capable machinist could, he admitted, after careful study remember the blueprints well enough to make a duplicate copy.

  11. Sometimes the blueprints were kept overnight in my tool box.

  12. The moment I asked him if he handled blueprints he answered in the affirmative, but quickly added that the blueprints were returned every night and locked up by the officers.

  13. I was working on reduction gears on the cruiser 'Brooklyn' and I kept the blueprints overnight.

  14. I couldn't help but think that Dieckhoff, too, had been very quick in protesting that the blueprints had never been left in his possession overnight.

  15. They looked at blueprints and drawings made by Holmes and Burke together, regarded with pained expressions the material they were to use, and set to work.

  16. The blueprints of Burke's ship had been flown to Washington from the plant, and an enormous number of replicas of the egg-shaped vessel were ordered to be begun immediately, even before the theory of the drive was understood.

  17. He told the FBI at one time in one of the interviews that he was busy reading blueprints and translating them.

  18. You said he read blueprints and translated them into the finished product.

  19. Perhaps he was boasting about the importance of his work when he told you about reading the blueprints and translating them into the finished product.

  20. Rod pushed aside his blueprints and set to opening his mail.

  21. For a while, the men worked over the mass of blueprints that recorded the excavation made during the month past.

  22. When he tried to board a 'bus he was waved away, so he called a cab, piled his blueprints inside of it, and then clambered in on top of them.

  23. He pushed a button and five minutes later a clerk staggered back into the room with an armful of blueprints that caused Mitchell to gasp.

  24. And there was nothing I could do, because he had my blueprints locked in his safe.

  25. They placed their blueprints and working notes in the safe, as usual, taking with them only those notes dealing with the object-compass and the X-plosive bullet, upon which they were still working.

  26. Every night when Crane went to bed he saw Seaton in his room in a haze of smoke, poring over blueprints or, surrounded by abstruse works upon the calculus and sub-atomic phenomena, making interminable calculations.

  27. Rapidly resuming his ordinary clothing, he stepped into his automobile and was soon back in his own rooms, poring over the blueprints and notebooks.

  28. Rolls of tracing-paper and blueprints lay on the flat-topped tables, reminding one of the office of an architect or civil engineer.

  29. This was the Lynhurst Park of the blueprints and plats.

  30. So let's get out the blueprints and start assigning the entry-points.

  31. The weather-beaten benches and tables were cluttered with maps of Andikythera and blueprints of the SatCom facility, scattered among half-empty bottles of ouzo and Metaxa.

  32. At the briefing just completed, he had used the blueprints to designate primary and secondary entry-points.

  33. They all knew where the loading bays were, since the blueprints had made that plain enough.

  34. He would fine-tune his strategy with Vance by radio once they had made the insertion; and then, after he had located all the terrorists and confirmed the situation of the hostages, they would use the blueprints to plan the assault.

  35. We'll go over the blueprints and compare them against the disposition of the friendlies and hostiles using his intel.

  36. The blueprints show there's an emergency medical facility here.

  37. They started work on the basic blueprints about 60 years ago.

  38. The blueprints haven't got a flaw in them.

  39. At Geneva, I declared the readiness of the United States to exchange blueprints of the military establishments of our nation and the USSR, to be confirmed by reciprocal aerial reconnaissance.

  40. Now to meet these commitments, we must increase our support for the model cities program, where blueprints of change are already being prepared in more than 150 American cities.

  41. He was a natural mechanic, a maker and tinkerer of machines; he lisped in blueprints for the blueprints came.

  42. It was his job to read the complicated blueprints and keep the construction and installation work proceeding on schedule.

  43. But I had a little trouble fitting that coil where the blueprints called for it.

  44. We found this guy in here copying secrets from some blueprints there on the desk and--" "Copying secrets!

  45. Even as a cruiser slides down the launching ways, plans for improvement, plans for increased efficiency in the next model, are taking shape in the blueprints of designers.

  46. In 1934 none of us had preparation; we worked without blueprints and made the mistakes of inexperience.

  47. The blueprints of the breech-block, without which the gun would be useless and the formula so much waste-paper, were not there.

  48. Now, will you tell us where those blueprints are, and give us an order for them?

  49. The blueprints are still damp, when in turn they are hurried to the different construction shops of the plant.

  50. This king of the railroad points to a sheaf of blueprints upon his desk.


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