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Example sentences for "coupling"

Lexicographically close words:
couplers; couples; couplet; coupleth; couplets; couplings; coupon; coupons; coups; courage
  1. Finally, a fifth movement united the four series in quantity, coupling them on each other, and putting the dynamo out of circuit, thus restoring equilibrium.

  2. The coupling is effected by bolts close to the engine, and the car is drawn entirely by means of the bogie pin of the hind bogie.

  3. One feature of this little train was the coupling of wagons together which had never been in practice before, so that one driver could handle five or six yoke of oxen pulling two wagons carrying from seven to eight thousand pounds.

  4. We had tried the plan of coupling wagons together for the saving of drivers the year before and found it practicable, hence no risk was taken in outfitting upon a more extensive scale for general freighting.

  5. Garrick and Jim had the laugh between them, but it seemed that they alone saw the jest of coupling the lively Roman with the mature leader of the bluestockings: the girls bent silently over their work.

  6. I quickly made a coupling that would save the wear on the machines, as follows.

  7. The hose coupling makes it easy to connect the motor directly to the water faucet.

  8. The coupling was made of a piece of 3/4-in.

  9. One end is provided with a regular coupling for connecting it to the line of good hose.

  10. The coupling in the gas pipe beneath the supporting standard serves as a stationary collar to support the weight of the whole mill.

  11. The end of the coupling having the small hole was slipped on the pump shaft and fastened with two setscrews.

  12. Illustration: Metal Lath on a Board] A Shaft Coupling In connecting a small 1/8-hp.

  13. Owing to the contrasting nature of the two bodies involved in the process, the coupling of gravity and levity is a polar one on both sides.

  14. As the result of a certain coupling with gravity, it too has somehow remained polarically split.

  15. Coupling is for convenience and legibility, and where it tends to interfere with legibility, we must be careful.

  16. A rubber gasket is placed between the male and female part of the coupling and the closure can be made very tight.

  17. All precautions are taken, however, so far as securing tightness in coupling and installing them on the absorber system are concerned.

  18. There's a gap of about a tenth of an inch when the coupling is screwed up tight.

  19. He looked over the halves of the coupling very carefully, then said: "I don't see anything wrong.

  20. When people aren't coupling Porter's name with Delilah's, they are coupling it with Grace's.

  21. They should not produce a brisk effervescence when placed in the acid in the porous pot before coupling up.

  22. The wire from the zinc is connected by means of a binding screw with a piece of stout copper wire, which, at a distance sufficiently great to allow of easy coupling with the battery, is led along the back of a piece of hard wood.

  23. Amaryllis flushed a little at the coupling of names, but faced it bravely.

  24. The only sign that he gave of an interest in sexuality was his laughing remark concerning the coupling of rose-bugs.

  25. Seeing dogs coupling gives me more pleasure than looking at pretty women, but less than looking at pretty little girls.

  26. Being a city boy, he was unfamiliar with the coupling even of animals, had never had a conscious erection and did not know of frictional excitement.

  27. I have been borne out in this by friends who have seen horses, camels, mules and other large animals in the coupling season.

  28. His hands were fastened together with a long coupling chain.

  29. A Roman centurion, whose armour gleamed in the sun, was walking at the head of the decuria of soldiers, several of whom were attached by a loose coupling chain to the arms of various prisoners.

  30. Heaven--how my heart beats in coupling those two words".

  31. How my heart beats in coupling those two words!

  32. Very often, in the cliche, one of the words has kept a concrete sense, and what makes us smile is less its triteness than the coupling of a living word with one from which the life has vanished.

  33. By coupling the ludicrous with the terrible, and by amusing the eye with the strangeness of its processions, it weakened compassion by the gratification of another feeling; it drowned sympathy in derision and contempt.

  34. The coupling of these roller subdivisions into one cylinder, is secured by the square holes x, and square pins y, fig.

  35. Above, there is cross section of a hollow coupling cap with steel tongue across, that fits into both the cuts of the screw pin and pinion boss, so that when lowered upon each other, they must all turn together.

  36. The raising motion is effected by coupling the leaf to one end of its correspondent top lever; the other end of this lever is tied to the long march below, and this to the treddle.

  37. These connections being made by coupling the different parts of the apparatus by cords, this operation is called the cording.

  38. By coupling the female thus generated, with such a male as the former, another improvement of one-half will be obtained, affording a staple three-fourths finer than that of the grandam.

  39. If a vertical position is inconvenient for the coupling it can still be soldered in that position, and afterwards twisted carefully into the desired position.

  40. T]-coupling and diminishing socket, an elbow, and one or two pieces of pipe.

  41. Next with a penknife cut a hole in the pipe B where the connection is wanted, a neat fit for the end of the coupling tail A, scraping the surface of the pipe all round the hole.

  42. Insert the coupling in the hole in a vertical position.

  43. C represents a wood plug for steadying the coupling tail.

  44. The same proceeding can be adopted in soldering the other portion of the coupling into the connecting pipe.

  45. Both functionaries had heard rumors coupling Lucien's name with the name of Mme.

  46. Bargeton, and then again at Lucien, coupling them with some mocking thought, cruelly mortifying to both.

  47. The spite of the small Liberal papers fastened at once on the opportunity of coupling the two names, and flung them into each other's arms.

  48. This cattle train came into collision with the ballast train, when, among other results, one was that the coupling chain which connected the cattle trucks to the engines broke.

  49. And among them was a pipe-wrench, a coupling or two, and a cutter.

  50. Whereupon he fell to fitting a coupling upon the ends of two pipes.

  51. A horseman who would chace the hare must take with him a greyhound, which is called slougui, from Slouguïa, a spot where they were originally produced from the coupling of she-wolves with dogs.

  52. The prosecuting attorney of Bourbon County, who had been knocked down with an iron coupling pin, was soon satisfied, for the family had wealth.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coupling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adultery; agglomeration; agglutination; aggregation; ankle; articulation; ass; bond; boundary; brace; butt; cervix; climax; clinch; closure; cohabitation; coitus; combination; commerce; communication; concourse; concurrence; confluence; congeries; conglomeration; conjugation; conjunction; connection; coupling; device; dovetail; elbow; embrace; fornication; gathering; generator; hinge; hip; intercommunication; intercourse; interface; intimacy; joining; joint; jointure; junction; juncture; knee; knuckle; liaison; link; linkage; lovemaking; marriage; mating; meat; meeting; merger; merging; miter; mortise; neck; orgasm; pairing; parts; pivot; procreation; rabbet; relations; relay; scarf; seam; sex; shoulder; sperm; splice; stitch; suture; symbiosis; terminal; tie; toggle; unification; union; venery; weld; wrist