Gay coverings are used on them often when they would be out of place on a larger hat.
In some instances the wires of high-pressure transmission lines have individual coverings for short distances where they enter cities, but often this is not the case.
For high-voltage work underground the lead covering is generally preferred without iron wire, but in submarine work coverings of both sorts are employed.
As a general rule, the wires of high-voltage transmission circuits are used bare because continuous coverings would add materially to the cost with only a trifling increase in effective insulation against high voltages.
Submarine cables, on the other hand, depend on their own outer coverings for mechanical protection, and may be exposed to forces that would rapidly cut through a lead sheath.
One objection to this plan was the loss of energy by induced currents in the lead coverings of the cables.
The eastern chapel and dome are comparatively modern, and the coverings of the other domes appear to be also modern; but I suppose they follow the old outline.
This church had an octangular steeple, whilst another church in the same village had one of the bulbous coverings of which I have before complained.
They fashion the curtains of linen and hair and coverings of ram's skins dyed red with which to adorn the tabernacle of the Church militant.
Some fled, and others, being delayed by the weight of their coverings and armour, were put to the sword.
With such energy did the boys work that dinner-time was forgotten and by afternoon things had reached a stage where the ship was ready for her golden wing coverings to be laced on.
Hastily flinging off their coverings and slipping into their clothes the others ran out.
In the 18th century feather pillows were first used as coverings in Germany, which in the fashions of the bed and the curious etiquette connected with the bedchamber followed France for the most part.
The pillows and coverings also became more costly and beautiful; the most celebrated places for their manufacture were Miletus, Corinth and Carthage.
Spongin The horny substance found in the skeletal framework and the coverings of gemmules of sponges.
Each individual is borne upon a segmented stalk the segments of which are enclosed in strong horny coverings and are believed to act as resting buds.
The gemmules with their various coverings are usually spherical in shape, but in some species they are oval or depressed in outline.
Further along are great marts, where velvet coverings for the floor are sold; for there are some who have never trod upon bare boards.
It is a good place to go to meditate, among the new-made graves in the fresh-turned earth, and among the proud monuments of those who have lain long enough beneath their marble coverings to be forgotten.
These coverings have been in places stripped off by the denuding agencies and the underlying massive basic rocks exposed.
In Fiji I trod upon the surface of submarine volcanoes that emerged ages since from the ocean and still retain their coverings of sea-deposits.
For milk cows coverings made from burlap (double thickness), including trouserlike coveringsfor the legs, may be used when the flies are very numerous and troublesome.
No person dares to open all the coverings of this sacred deposit, in order to expose the shell to view.
A portion of the tobacco, consecrated by being long suspended to the skin mats, or coverings of the shell, is now taken and distributed to the magi, who fill their pipes with it, to smoke to the great medicine.
Bus'kins, coverings for the feet coming some distance up the leg, and fit for a defense against thorns, etc.
Spat'-ter-dash-es, coveringsfor the legs to keep them clean from water and mud.
There was a large heavy pillow cast down by the side of the bed, and the bed coverings were in some disorder.
While this conversation had been passing, Emily had sunk upon her knees, trembling in every limb, and hid her face in the coverings of the bed.
It is at once the thinnest and most effective of all the coverings under which duncedom sneaks and skulks.
I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.
Draw, then, with the fingers, the gutta percha coverings of both ends down, tapering them off until they meet in the middle of the joint; heat them sufficiently to make them adhere together.
This was dressed and used for coverings of couches and chairs--for shields and even garments.
I wrapped myself in my coverings and shawls, for the cold increased in severity, but I was protected from it by the assiduous care of my good guides, who heaped upon me all their furs and cloaks.
The sollerets or feet coverings became longer, and plates like those on the shell of a lobster were added to the gauntlets to cover and protect the backs of the hands.
Wadded in his arms he bore one or two of the coverings from his bed.
Slowly he counted the disordered coverings of his wife's couch, stood a moment in desolate perplexity, and then went quickly and counted those of his own.
The woman rearranged the coverings of the little crooked legs.
Instead of replying, she began, as by a suddenly confirmed resolve, to remove the coverings at the other end of the bundle, and presently disclosed the baby's feet.
If the patient is suffering from shock he should receive some hot alcoholic drink, as hot water and whisky, and be put to bed under warm coverings with hot-water bags or bottles at his feet.
These saddle-bags are frequently used for table coveringsor for mural adornment.
They are marred, however, for beautiful floor coverings by the necessary angular cut in them, through which the straps of the saddle passed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coverings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
