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Example sentences for "calibered"

Lexicographically close words:
calf; calfe; calfs; calfskin; caliber; calibers; calibrate; calibrated; calibrating; calibration
  1. In fact, the only large calibered piece not thus mounted is the Schneider mortar, a very efficient weapon, having a remarkably smooth recoil, which has a range of over six miles.

  2. To destroy these obstacles the French then had to resort to heavy-calibered pieces, with which, as I have already remarked, they were at first very inadequately supplied.

  3. He pulled out his large-calibered revolver.

  4. The cartouch thus made, is to be calibered by trying it with the piece for which it is intended, into which it must enter with ease.

  5. Musket cartridges cannot be too tightly rolled upon the form; and to ascertain their accuracy, they must be calibered before they are loaded; that is, they must be put into the end of a musket.

  6. He took a light arm of blue steel from his belt,--the small-calibered and automatic weapon with which he had gilled the grouse.

  7. Virginia stared at him in blank amazement as he slipped down from the saddle and drew his automatic, small-calibered pistol from the holster.

  8. Some people are so small-calibered they'd rattle around in a gnat's bladder like a mustard seed in a bass drum.


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