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Example sentences for "circuit"

Lexicographically close words:
circleth; circlets; circling; circonstance; circonstances; circuite; circuited; circuiting; circuitous; circuitously
  1. Sharp as is the contrast between the two systems, the one being the direct contradictory of the other, they are lodged together, not harmonised, within the vast circuit of the poet's imagination.

  2. In the afternoon it stopped snowing; Macgregor and Fred, with the two rifles, made a wide circuit round the cabin, but killed no game except half a dozen spruce grouse.

  3. This time he intended to make a longer circuit than on the preceding night.

  4. Yet so great was his haste that, instead of making a circuit around their quarter, he dashed straight through it at his utmost speed.

  5. Then you will take a wife, and be well content that you have seen the world, and have something to look back upon beyond a six miles circuit of Derby.

  6. If they are to pursue us, they must go round to one of the other gates, and then make a circuit to get into this road again.

  7. We came into the road after making a circuit through the woods, and hastened onward.

  8. Act like you want the Lord to do it all--don't want the circuit jedge to do nothin'.

  9. The preliminary trial, the mummery before a justice of the peace, also went against Alf; the grand jury had brought in its finding, and the next step was the formal arraignment before the circuit judge.

  10. The fair was designed for the support of the circuit rider who preached to the few that would hear, and buried us all in turn.

  11. The better-authenticated remains of the circuit wall of Servius Tullius are similar in character.

  12. Letters were sent in every direction with orders that they should be delivered to everybody on the same day; and in these he commanded the people to raze the circuit of their fortifications instanter, threatening the disobedient with death.

  13. He made assaults upon the circuit of the wall which the natives with the help of the Carthaginians at first withstood vigorously, but when the women and children were moved to tears and laments they abandoned resistance.

  14. One day the Carthaginians succeeded in shaking down a portion of the outer circuit and had been daring enough to enter through the breach, when the Saguntines made a sortie and scared them away.

  15. As they were not aware in what direction the trench was being dug, they kept applying a bronze shield to the surface of the ground all about the circuit of the walls.

  16. Yet the circuit of the modern city is stated in the official book called Hang-chau Fu-Chi or topographical history of Hang-chau, at only 35 li.

  17. Inside the place is a lake which has a circuit of six parasangs, and all round which houses are built.

  18. These expressions probably point to the government of the Lu or circuit of Yang-chau, just as we find in ch.

  19. It is one of the largest of Chinese cities, having a circuit of about 12 miles.

  20. NOTE 1] The city is passing great, and has a circuit of some 60 miles; it hath merchants of great wealth and an incalculable number of people.

  21. This is still a large city, having a rectangular rampart with 6 gates, and a circuit of about 6 1/2 miles.

  22. Polo's ascription of a circumference of 30 miles to the lake, corroborates the supposition that in the compass of the city a confusion had been made between miles and li, for Semedo gives the circuit of the lake really as 30 li.

  23. Whatever may have been the facts, and whatever the origin of the estimate, I imagine that the ascription of 100 miles of circuit to Kinsay had become popular among Westerns.

  24. The currents from the secondary circuit of a small induction coil are satisfactory, or the currents of an alternating electric light supply may be transformed down to an electromotive force of one or two volts.

  25. The fall of potential at the cathode is proportional to the square of the current, while the fall in the rest of the circuit is directly proportional to the current.

  26. Thus the problem of finding the current which a given battery will produce when part of the circuit consists of a gas discharge is much more complicated than when the circuit consists entirely of metallic conductors.

  27. If R + dE/di is positive there will be an unbalanced electromotive force round the circuit tending to stop the current.

  28. Schuster and Hemsalech found that by inserting a coil with large self induction in the primary circuit they could obliterate the air lines in the discharge.

  29. With such currents it is necessary to consider the effects of self-induction in the circuit and of electrostatic capacity.

  30. The fourth class, namely the electrolytic conductors comprises all those substances which undergo chemical decomposition when they form part of an electric circuit traversed by an electric current.

  31. Many days, however, passed before he was able to make the wide circuit which led to the southern side.

  32. At last they accomplished the circuit of the town.

  33. He therefore made a wide circuit round, and at last found himself in a broad chasm of the rock, which seemed to extend far into the mountain.

  34. Also on the northern side the ground to bury strangers in, with the whole circuit thereof, but the part in the midst of it had been consecrated aforetime with our church.

  35. All the offenders against the law in that county, against whom process was taken out, were arrested and brought before a court of inquiry, and recognized to appear at the Circuit Court.

  36. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Circuit Court at Quincy, this fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine.

  37. He said there was a court-martial then in session, consisting of thirteen or fourteen officers; Circuit Judge Austin A.

  38. Special terms of the circuit court are expected to be held in the several counties, in which the above mentioned crimes are represented to have been committed.

  39. The prisoners were held to bail for their appearance at the circuit court, Comer as principal, the others were merely in his service.

  40. Attended the circuit court awhile, and received a visit from Judge King.

  41. Missouri has three courts of law peculiar to that state--the supreme court, the circuit court, and the county court; the two former about the same as in many other states of the Union.

  42. Application had been made to the judge of the Circuit Court for protection, and he ordered out two companies of militia, one commanded by Captain Samuel Bogart, a Methodist minister, and one of the worst of the mobocrats.

  43. A maximum circuit breaker is equivalent to a fuse, but has the advantage that it can be at once reset, whereas a fuse must be replaced.

  44. Maximum and reverse circuit breakers are frequently used on dynamo panels.

  45. Any machine that can be used as a dynamo will, when supplied with electrical power, run as a motor, and conversely, a motor when driven by mechanical power, will supply electrical energy to the circuit connected to it.

  46. Both windings then are always in the circuit in parallel.

  47. At the same instant the opposed currents in the lower windings flow to the external circuit by positive brush 2 and return to the armature through negative brushes 3 and 4.

  48. This type of circuit breaker is arranged to open a circuit in the event of current flowing in the circuit in a direction reverse to the normal.

  49. The action of this type of circuit breaker is fully explained in fig.

  50. It should be noticed that when SA is off, A and F form a closed circuit with the resistance R and magnet E.

  51. Devices which are fitted to circuit breakers and which act as dampers and prevent the too sudden operation of the breakers on what may be only a temporary overload or reverse current.

  52. The overload release is an electromagnetic circuit breaker that opens the circuit if the motor become greatly overloaded.

  53. Small switchboard suitable for two dynamos; view showing ammeters and voltmeters, switches, circuit breakers, etc.

  54. A circuit breaker, operated automatically or by hand should be used for interrupting heavy currents.

  55. The clocklike instrument is really a piece of clockwork actuated by a magnet, so that it counts up one point every time the electric circuit is closed.

  56. The electric circuit is comprised of a battery and two keys.

  57. Also, midway between every two of these corner palaces is another of the like; so that, taking the whole circuit of the enclosed, you will find eight vast palaces stored with the great lord’s harness of war.

  58. Its circuit at the present time is about three miles and a half; but of old it extended over a much larger area.

  59. The band made the circuit of the square, saluting the ladies, and then ranged themselves in a line with the pavilion in which were the ladies of their device.

  60. The circuit through these walks and along the river, formed his favorite amusement.

  61. Outside, on the north-east, is the grassy hollow of a tiny amphitheatre; on the west a line of earthworks runs in wider circuit than the walls.

  62. He took an active part in the prosecution of those implicated in the supposed Popish Plot, and accused the lord chief justice (Sir William Scroggs) in his own court while on circuit of favouring the Roman Catholics.

  63. The Mayor of Truro, who with the Mayor of Penryn had accompanied their official brother when he put off in a small boat to intercept her Majesty in her circuit round the harbour, was doomed to play a more undignified part.

  64. She set forth "in slow State" to make her circuit of the roofless quadrangle, round the corridor and through the inner court, all in the open air.

  65. The circuit judge is his; the sheriff is his; the prosecutor is his.

  66. Anywhere else we could appeal, but here the circuit court belongs to Zaanan, and it spends as much of its time playing to the gallery and coddling the poor, downtrodden working-man at my expense as Zaanan does.

  67. More than one hundred and fifty miles' circuit of living green hills embosoms a translucent expanse, so gemmed in by sierras of grass, that among the Indian tribes the place was known as "The Hidden Water.

  68. Did not Tiridates, the Eastern monarch, take an immense land circuit to avoid desecrating the Mediterranean, in order to reach his imperial master, Nero, and do homage for his crown?

  69. The left column taking a great circuit got entangled in a swamp, and, being exposed to the guns of the garrison, was unable to advance.

  70. It is a case for a judge and jury to decide, and the accused stands committed to the next Circuit Court here.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    circuit breaker; circuit judge; circuitous route