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Example sentences for "clamped"

Lexicographically close words:
clamoured; clamouring; clamourous; clamours; clamp; clamping; clamps; clams; clamshell; clan
  1. This receptacle had been closed by a solid metal door, which was screwed and clamped tight.

  2. He was intently listening to a series of dots and dashes that clicked in the telephone receiver clamped to his left ear.

  3. Without a single weapon in his hand, he stalked as straight as an arrow through the gang of negroes, elbowing them right and left, and went up to the captain and clamped his hand on his shoulder so heavy that I heard it clear across the room.

  4. He sat there silent, a half-smoked cigar clamped in one corner of his mouth, the lines of his square jaw in profile, determined, rigid.

  5. Powerful and weighty a man as Monohan was, Fyfe drove him halfway around with a short-arm blow that landed near his heart, and while he staggered from that, clamped one thick arm about his neck in the strangle-hold.

  6. Fuming, he went back the whole distance along the ramparts till he came to the iron-clamped door that had banged behind him.

  7. And then suddenly he blundered into an iron-clamped door and swore again.

  8. This dial is capable of being moved around, but can also be clamped to the outside ring.

  9. This sight vane can be clamped in any position independently of the ground glass dial, which can be moved freely beneath it.

  10. Jimmy in anguish, as Joe's foot clamped firmly down upon his.

  11. Immediately after breakfast they fell to work on the horn, and after some three hours of steady labor they had constructed a passable loud-speaking horn, using one telephone receiver clamped securely at the narrow end.

  12. He plugged it into the old circuit and clamped the phones to his ears.

  13. They must have clamped him into some mock-up," Scriven murmured.

  14. He looked up at the top of the embankment, clamped his teeth, and started to crawl.

  15. Grim-faced now, his jaws clamped hard, Regan sprang forward toward the upper end of the shed.

  16. The groove she had been set and clamped so fast into ran straight as a string into Hugo Canning's arms; but she had broken out of her groove, and Hugo was gone, to cross her path no more.

  17. Sue came up beneath him, nudged him with her nose to lift him clear of the water, clamped her jaws on his neck, and marked another star on her private scoreboard.

  18. Holding the pup with his right arm, he clamped his left hand around its neck so the pup could not turn and bite again.

  19. In some moment of the struggle the bit slipped forward, and the horse clamped his powerful jaws on it and set the great muscles in his neck to help us hold.

  20. I bent over and clamped my knees to the horse and let him go.

  21. El Mahdi held the bit clamped in his teeth.

  22. I clamped my legs to the horse, held my breath, and went down in the saddle.

  23. He clenched his hands and clamped his wet fists against the legs of his breeches.

  24. When the casing is clamped down tight, the steam is sent through an inlet or nozzle at the side, so that it enters at the periphery or outside edge of the set of disks, at a tangent to the circle of the rotor.

  25. The extra pipe is the same size as the others and extends down to the end of the torch at an angle where its tip is clamped alongside the main tip.

  26. That, and the dull realization that he could barely breathe because something was clamped hard against his nose and mouth.

  27. Only when he was well out of range and had leveled off did he let the clamped air out of his lungs and shake the cold beads of sweat from his forehead.

  28. These drive an outside propeller flange, the propeller being clamped between them by six through bolts.

  29. The inner race or cone of each bearing is firmly clamped against shoulders on the crank-shaft.

  30. The cylinder casting is firmly clamped on the drill press table by suitable clamping blocks, and a wooden block is placed in the combustion chamber to provide a stop for the piston at its lower extreme position.

  31. As is true of other systems the magnetic influence is produced by permanent steel magnets clamped to the cast-iron pole pieces between which the armature rotates.

  32. An abrasive paste composed of fine emery powder and oil is placed between the blocks, and the blocks are firmly clamped to the crank-pin.

  33. I--Wrist Pin Clamped in Connecting Rod Small End by Bolt.

  34. The bearings are then clamped together in the usual manner with the proper bolts, and the crank-shaft revolved several times to indicate the high spots on the bearing cap.

  35. Where the connecting rod is clamped to the wrist pin and that member oscillates in the piston bosses the wear will usually be indicated on bronze bushings which are pressed into the piston bosses.

  36. The square shoulders of the core afford two gasket seats, and when the core is clamped in the shell by means of check nut E, it is accurately centered and a tight joint is formed.

  37. At the front end of the crank-shaft timing gear and a suitable check nut are used, while at the back end the bearing is clamped by a threaded retention member between the fly-wheel and a shoulder on the crank-shaft.

  38. So soon as each segment is put into its place it should be clamped firmly to its seat and driven firmly up to the joint of the next one, and when the layer is completed it should be left clamped all night to dry.

  39. The disks are clamped between pieces of board so soon as the glue is applied, so as to make a good joint, and also keep the wheel flat and prevent it from warping during the drying process.

  40. The screw bolts being slackened the back centre is raised, lowered, or tilted to any required position to bring the centre in line with the work axis, and is then clamped in place.

  41. Rag polishing wheels are formed of disks of rags, either woollen or strong cotton, placed loosely side by side, and clamped together upon the mandrel at the centre only.

  42. This stop is a simple strip of wood and may be clamped to the saw, though it is much more convenient to have a couple of holes in the saw blade for the passage of screws.

  43. W is a piece of work, T the tap, and S a guide, the latter being bolted or clamped to the work at B.

  44. The cover may then be clamped to the cylinder, and holes of the requisite size for the tap (the tapping holes, as they are commonly called) may be drilled through the cover and the requisite depth into the cylinder at the same time.

  45. P is clamped to its adjusted position on the shears or bed by means of the gib, shown in dotted lines, which is pulled laterally forward by the screw S, which is tapped into the stem of the gib.

  46. In this case it is best to make the centre C after the piece B is clamped to the work.

  47. For the reaming the two eyes should be clamped together.

  48. The outer end of the plate was clamped between B and C, and the work was found to be easily and rapidly done.

  49. His big Adam's apple bobbed up and down, then his wide mouth clamped shut.

  50. Stan stared at the German and his teeth clamped shut hard.

  51. They went down into the basement, the three of them; she sat in the chair he'd prepared and he clamped on the wired helmet and adjusted the electrodes.

  52. He set the contact clock for objectivity maximum and clamped the electrodes on his head.

  53. The player placed chips on whichever insignia of fortune he chose, and the dealer slid cards (quite fairly) from the top of a pack that lay held within a skeleton case made with some clamped bands of tin.

  54. I reckon she counted mighty plentiful when he thought he'd got her clamped to him by lawful marriage.

  55. After finishing the joint, the two rails of each set are clamped together and tenons laid out.

  56. The method of doing this is shown at a, where two jointed pieces are clamped together.

  57. He had staged all this elaborate play for a weapon as useless to his untrained mind as one of Earth's explosive guns, with the safety-lock clamped on, would have been to an abysmal Venusian savage!

  58. Loops of metal, like handcuffs, were snapped around his wrists and ankles; and a metal hoop was clamped over his throat, pinning him to the torture rack.

  59. The two men busy at the chair lifted a number of curious-looking objects from the floor; they clamped one on each wrist, and he felt the cold surface of some instrument pressing against each calf.

  60. The great chair at the head of the table, solid and heavy, was immovable, for it was clamped to the floor.

  61. In this improved tool there is a clamping bolt by which the cutters are clamped fast after being adjusted.

  62. It consists of radially recessed face disks, clamped to the glass frame, and having an intermediate pivoted disk with corresponding recesses that are set by a crank lever and cords into open or closed piston.


  63. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clamped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    compact; compressed; concentrated; condensed; consolidated; constricted; contracted; cramped; knitted; nipped; pinched; puckered; pursed; solidified; squeezed; strangled; strangulated; wrinkled