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Example sentences for "compartment"

Lexicographically close words:
compares; comparing; comparison; comparisons; comparisoun; compartments; compas; compass; compasse; compassed
  1. There are also in the brood compartment no cells in which the gathering workers can deposit fresh honey, and they consequently put it in the supers.

  2. These allow the workers to pass out, but not drones or queens, which, on leaving the entrance, pass up to an upper compartment from which they can not return.

  3. If receptacles for surplus honey have been put on previously, as they generally should be, they should now be put over the artificial swarm separated from the brood compartment by perforated zinc.

  4. When a swarm issues from a hive provided with a queen trap, the queen goes to the upper compartment and remains there until released by the bee keeper.

  5. The small hole leading into the candy compartment is uncovered, and the bees gradually eat through and release the queen.

  6. Occasionally he would come into the compartment to read aloud some bit of information which he thought might interest her.

  7. Consulting the rough plan which he had constructed to take the place of the missing train card, he entered the compartment which the Countess had occupied, and which was actually next door.

  8. I kept a good deal in my compartment during the journey.

  9. I looked into his compartment once and saw him in the act of counting them over, a great quantity, in fact--" Again the officials looked at each other significantly.

  10. She had not been in the sleeping-car at the time of the murder, while the Countess as certainly was; and, according to strong presumption, in the very compartment where the deed was done.

  11. Having settled the first preliminary but essential points, he next surveyed the whole compartment critically.

  12. No one has any right to be in that compartment now.

  13. So the single occupant of the compartment b, that adjoining the Englishmen, was called in.

  14. Still meeting with no response, he opened the door of the compartment and went in.

  15. Escaped through the open window of the compartment where you found the murdered man.

  16. Directly I entered the compartment at the first alarm.

  17. English general, Sir Charles Collingham by name, to his brother the parson, when he had reëntered their compartment and shut the door.

  18. The compartment was filled for some ten minutes or more by an excited, gesticulating, polyglot mob of half a dozen, all talking at once in French, English, and Italian.

  19. No blind was down; indeed, the one narrow window was open, wide; and the whole of the interior of the compartment was plainly visible, all and everything in it.

  20. We'll be in the sleeping compartment right next to that used by Vane and the boy," chuckled Gaff Caven.

  21. The train was only half full and for the time being Caven and Malone kept themselves either in the smoking compartment or in the dining car.

  22. The lock was no sooner closed to the outside and the air hissing into the compartment than Jordan was there, opening the inner lock.

  23. He'd swung off the tank and was busy expelling the water from an auxiliary compartment into space.

  24. All I need is a toaster, or something that looks like one, and I can drive the robot into the control compartment for Jordan to pick off.

  25. The air in the compartment would exhaust into space and anyone in there would die.

  26. As soon as the compartment was empty, he led a hose from it to the tank.

  27. Tools and equipment are in a compartment that opens into space.

  28. Could it get by the control compartment without our seeing it?

  29. It was a long time before the women came back--if the weird creature that floated into the control compartment with Nona was Anti.

  30. This compartment contained the servants of which Omega had spoken--divers machinery and other marvels of man's construction.

  31. She smiled back at him, reassured by his confident manner, and together they entered a lower compartment of the ship.

  32. The ten-thirty on the London and Brighton was the vestibule and corridor type of train, not like the ordinary single compartment coach in common use on English and Continental railroads.

  33. It was therefore possible to pass from car to car and from compartment to compartment on this train much the same as on an American Pullman train, and visiting between team members shortly began.

  34. That night, on his way to Winchester, Eric chose a compartment at the back of the train to avoid all chance of meeting her in the Crawleigh or Southampton coaches.

  35. It was late afternoon before Eric found himself locked into a reserved compartment with a dinner-basket, a bottle of champagne and a box of cigars.

  36. They first had narrow verdure edgings, until Raphael introduced compartment borders in the set of the Gates of the Apostles, the most famous tapestries of the world.

  37. VI A half hour later, when he judged that all were wrapped in slumber he rose, took from a secret compartment of his escritoire a little key, lighted a dark lantern, and left the room.

  38. A water-tight compartment may be made by an after bulkhead, with a lid to open, so as to allow the air to circulate when on shore.

  39. It can be kept in a large cage, but is much merrier and more contented in a garden aviary, where it may be kept all the year round so long as it has an inner compartment to retire to in very severe cold or wet weather.

  40. To make one cup of this infusion, place half an ounce of ground coffee in the upper compartment and six fluid ounces of water into the bottom.

  41. Then the can is put through a drying compartment to make the label stick quickly.

  42. Then the secret compartment was found to have been disclosed, and Riesener was absolved by a letter therein, from the maître, who intimated he was about to end it all because of paralysis.

  43. Once only the lower compartment receives on its kindly bosom The crushed grains, which are placed in the very depths of the box.

  44. The evaporator consists of a horizontal cylindrical vapor compartment connected with an inclined cylindrical steam chest in which are numerous tubes, or flues, that occupy almost the whole chest.

  45. The best coffee pot was found to be the common biggin having an upper compartment with a perforated bottom upon which to place the coffee.

  46. In a compartment lined with silver paper and covered by a red plush top with ivory handle are two octagonal scarificators.

  47. There is an extra compartment in the case that might have held a tenth cup, but now contains only the key.

  48. Each front yard measures ten feet by twelve; the sleeping compartment is ten feet by ten.

  49. Then it abandoned its efforts at compression, and with many loads of moist clay moulded a special compartment in which the tarantula, still in a state of suspended animation, was snugly stowed.

  50. Then there was more buzzing than ever, for the wasp discovered that its prey was many sizes too large for the clay compartment prepared for it.

  51. Half the bread compartment was filled with dainty sandwiches of bread and butter sprinkled with the yolk of egg and the remainder with three large slices of the most fragrant spice cake imaginable.

  52. A bag of macaroons was produced and the cake compartment filled.

  53. In fact, it was not seldom that I had to teach an individual to pass from one compartment to the other by gently pushing him against the door until it opened sufficiently to allow him to squeeze through.

  54. With something like a snap the door opened and a flood of light streamed into their compartment from the electric bulbs without, and, looking up, they saw, at the ceiling of their room, a small electric bulb.

  55. They did so, and found themselves in a compartment which did not seem to be more than five by six feet in size, and even in this small space mechanism was noticed.

  56. The open compartment of the Emma Dean is filled with water, and every breaker rolls over us.

  57. The open compartment is filled when we strike the first wave below, but we cut through it, and then the men pull with all their power toward the left wall, and swing clear of the dangerous rock below all right.

  58. You can no more shut up faith to the compartment of feeling than reason to the compartment of the intellect.

  59. Traveling second class, as the Progressive Tours pilgrims did, involved four people in a compartment for the night, with one exception.

  60. When he returned in slippers, nightrobe and pajamas, Char was in the upper berth, staring angrily at the compartment ceiling.

  61. At the end of the car was a smaller compartment containing two bunks only.

  62. If a railroad company at home suggested you spend the night in a compartment with a strange man, you'd sue them.

  63. Bridge was the one activity which, though it was taken out of its compartment at the proper time, didn't go into it again with any sort of punctuality.

  64. Having finished with the contents, the compartment was locked up and dismissed from his thoughts till its turn came round again.

  65. All food material that is sufficiently broken up is directed toward the opening into the third compartment by the oesophageal grove (Fig.

  66. The interior arrangement of this compartment is most singular.

  67. Smooth, round objects do no appreciable harm unless they block the opening into the third compartment of the stomach.

  68. The third compartment, the omasum, communicates anteriorly with the second and first, and posteriorly with the fourth compartment or true stomach.


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