Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "cement"

Lexicographically close words:
celuy; cely; cem; cembalo; cembre; cementation; cemented; cementer; cementing; cements
  1. As I remember it now, the thing that was uppermost in my mind was the desire to say something that would cement the friendship of the races and bring about hearty cooperation between them.

  2. It is a recognition that will do more to cement the friendship of the two races than any occurrence since the dawn of our freedom.

  3. Nitrate of silver* is employed for staining the intercellular cement of epithelial cells.

  4. The disc is then rotated and the cement applied to the edge of the cover-glass with a brush.

  5. A ring of cement should be put on as early as possible afterwards.

  6. Then cement it by Canada balsam (liquefied by warming) to a piece of plate glass and continue the rubbing process with this, examining it now and then with the low power to see if it is thin enough.

  7. Cementing or binding power is the property possessed by the dust of a rock to act, after wetting, as a cement to the coarser fragments composing the road, binding them together and forming a smooth, impervious shell over the surface.

  8. As we sat on the cement platform of the tavern, kicking our heels against it and bemoaning the follies of youth which had corrupted our Freshman and Sophomore French, there came and sat beside us a pretty woman.

  9. And the three of us, kicking our heels on the cement wall below us, sat swapping yarns about mutual friends in the Southwest.

  10. But the few moving objects in the white stretch of marble and cement only accented its lonely aspect.

  11. His hand pushed through cobwebs and found a rough, cement wall.

  12. He was a huge man, and the place of concealment of the Chicago Avenue police station was very small--merely an indentation low in the cement wall behind two steam pipes.

  13. Then he too, sank to the cement and lay still.

  14. The young man pulled the dead chauffeur from the car and laid him on the cement floor.

  15. The crash of the glass on the cement was an explosion in the screaming silence.

  16. He laid him down very carefully, so that he was in the exact center of a large square of outlined cement with his feet pointing straight north and his outstretched arms pointing south.

  17. That left the space of the width of the cement work (C) to be subdivided again by Rule 3b, while the top of the wainscoting panels re-echoed the previous horizontal divisions of Rule 2a.

  18. Appendages in cement are seen in the uprights for cement seats and are generally translated into the primary mass by means of mouldings or curves.

  19. Rectangular posts, pedestals, and other vertical forms in cement may be developed by the application of Rule 2a or 2b, if care is taken to group all minor divisions well within the limitations of these rules.

  20. Sidenote: Effects of Second Division] The cement fence post at C, Plate 2, is a strict utilitarian problem without interest.

  21. The two-division rule is used in the relations of the plaster and wainscoting; again in the plaster over, and the cement or tile around the fireplace.

  22. It is repeated in the arrangement of the copper and cement of the fireplace facing and hood and in the door panels.

  23. If an artificial bog, the bottom may be made of cement or puddled clay.

  24. A cement bottom for shallow water may be disguised by imbedding pebbles and small stones in the cement before it sets.

  25. This is easily managed by building a cement shoulder on the sides of the pool or stream a little below what will be the level of the water, and then setting rough stones on that.

  26. If shady, plant ferns generously] In most cases it will be found that some cement construction is necessary, but not a bit of it should show.

  27. If the pipe is free from cracks, the only possible way roots can get into the inside of terra-cotta pipe is through the cement joint.

  28. Cement or artificial stone tubs will not be permitted, unless approved by the plumbing inspector and building department.

  29. The rest of the operation is to swab out the inside joint to remove any cement that perchance was forced through the joint (see Fig.

  30. It is mixed with warm water to the consistency of thick cement and applied with a trowel.

  31. The cement can be forced into place with the hands and then surfaced with a trowel.

  32. A stick is cut 8 feet long which can be used to get the trenches below the cement floor at the right depth.

  33. The waste pipes under a tile or cement floor should be covered with waterproof paper and a metal V-shaped shield over the entire length.

  34. The bottom of the hub of pipe in place is filled with cement and the straight end of the next piece of pipe is laid in place, then more cement is placed into the hub until the space between the hub and the pipe is filled.

  35. The cement used should be 1/2 cement and 1/2 clean sharp sand.

  36. Half of the space between the hub and the pipe is first packed with oakum and then the other half filled with cement of the same proportions as that used above.

  37. After the pipe is laid and cemented, it should be covered and allowed to stand 24 hours to give the cement time to harden.

  38. Roots of trees find their way into the pipe through cracks or cement joints.

  39. Every joint of the stone is used, in like manner, as a thin black line, which the slightest sign of cement would spoil like a blot.

  40. What was he to do for an instrument with which to scrape free the iron bars from the cement in which they were set?

  41. The stone of his cell floor was so soft that the first piece of it he succeeded in detaching crumbled like plaster against the hard cement of the chimney.

  42. A metallic tube S is fastened by means of some cement to the neck of the tube.

  43. A moment later the sounds ceased and muffled footsteps came down the cement walk.

  44. It was black outside; when I looked out, as I did cautiously, I could not see even the gray-white of the cement walk.

  45. It was a suburban town a dozen miles from the city, with a picturesque station, surrounded by lawns and cement walks.

  46. Upon the banks of the Arve, just above its junction, a cement manufactory has been established to utilize the clays which are here deposited.

  47. To the right across the Arve is seen the cement works for recovering the Arve sediments.

  48. Whereas a sandstone fractures about its constituent grains, a break in quartzite is continued through the grains and the cement alike.

  49. For a moment longer he stood looking wildly about the room, and then with rapid strides he crossed it to an open window, and before any one could interfere he vaulted out, to fall four stories to the cement sidewalk below.

  50. His back and thighs throbbed with exhaustion; his face and the tips of his fingers felt raw from the biting cement dust.

  51. We were working unloading cement at Passy--cement to build the stadium the army is presenting to the French, built by slave labor, like the pyramids.

  52. So we have to sweat unloadin' cement all day," muttered Hoggenback, "to give these goddam frawgs a stadium.

  53. I'd give a lot to get some of this cement dust off me," said Andrews, without interest.

  54. And Andrews was standing on the grey cement platform, sniffing smells of lumber and merchandise and steam.

  55. The men sat about, huddled in groups, sinking as far as they could into their overcoats, stamping their numb wet feet on the mud-covered cement of the floor.

  56. But soon he forgot everything in the agony of the heavy cement bags bearing down on his back and hips.

  57. The bags of cement were very heavy, and the unaccustomed work sent racking pains through his back.

  58. Love is the great instrument of nature, the bond and cement of society, the spirit and spring of the universe.

  59. It has been wisely but sadly said that years are necessary to cement a friendship; but months, and sometimes weeks, and even days, are sufficient to prepare for that holier state of matrimony.

  60. Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all society.

  61. A platform of reinforced cement belonging to this factory provided us with an excellent observatory.

  62. It is the flour factory near the bridge, and its cement platform still dominates the valley of the Yser.

  63. She mounted the three cement steps from the sidewalk level, and the four shabby and peeling wooden ones that rose to the porch.

  64. A chipped cement path led to Linda's steps; there was no front fence.

  65. Mrs. Webster Merrifield, whose husband, for many years president of the State university at Grand Forks, was one of the owners of the cement mines once operated here near the source of the Tongue River.

  66. Over it lies the bluish-gray Niobrara shale, in which natural cement is found.

  67. Some of the eastern lake beds contain marl, a clay from which Portland cement is made.

  68. Indeed you are; but do you not think it would be possible to cement our friendship even more closely yet?

  69. If I could do you some great service--if I could by any means satisfy what is now your chief desire in life--would not that help to cement our friendship, as I said?

  70. A cement superior to clay, but not of any very high value, unless as a preventive against damp, was bitumen, which was very generally used in basements and in other structures exposed to the action of water.

  71. Mortar, however, or lime cement was far more commonly employed than either of the others, and was of very excellent quality, equal indeed to the best Roman material.

  72. And it was only a step from settlement to trolley cars, electric lights, sandstone business blocks and cement pavements, together with lawns growing real grass!

  73. Many seem to have been constructed without the aid of cement; and writers have contended that the Peruvians were unacquainted with the use of mortar, or cement of any kind.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cement" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accumulate; adherent; adhesive; adobe; affix; amass; anchor; annex; apply; articulate; asphalt; assemble; associate; attach; band; barnacle; belay; bind; biscuit; bisque; bond; bone; bony; bowl; bracket; bramble; briar; brick; bridge; brier; bulldog; burr; carpet; cement; ceramics; chain; cinch; clamp; clinch; clinker; cobblestone; collect; combine; composition; comprise; concrete; conjugate; connect; copulate; corneous; couple; cover; cramp; crock; crockery; curb; curbstone; dense; diamond; embrace; encompass; fasten; firebrick; fix; flag; flagstone; flint; flinty; floor; flooring; fuse; gather; glass; glue; graft; granite; grapple; gravel; gum; hard; horny; include; iron; join; jug; knit; knot; league; leech; limpet; link; macadam; marble; marry; marshal; masonry; mass; merge; metal; mobilize; molasses; moor; mortar; mucilage; nail; oak; obdurate; pair; paste; pave; pavement; pebble; plaster; porcelain; pot; pottery; prickle; resistant; rock; rocky; roofing; secure; siding; solder; solid; span; splice; steel; steely; stick; sticker; stone; stony; syrup; tack; tape; tar; thorn; tie; tighten; tile; tiling; tough; trim; unify; unite; urn; vase; washboard; weld; yoke


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cement and other construction; cement mortar