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Example sentences for "crease"

Lexicographically close words:
creamery; creaming; creams; creamy; creance; creased; creases; creasing; creat; creata
  1. The crease (2) cuts the ridges on either side, at an angle of about 30 degrees.

  2. The accordance is closest between the crease (1) and the ridges in Th; nevertheless that crease does not agree with the line a, but usually lies considerably within it.

  3. The crease (3) is usually parallel to the ridges between which it runs, but is often far from accordant with the line c.

  4. Once more the discontented crease showed itself upon the coroner's forehead; and again as he turned to Brolatsky, his voice rose sharply.

  5. My manner must have betrayed me," the girl went on, "for I saw an inquiring crease come into his forehead.

  6. Very well," said Sir William, with that tight crease running around his jaw which meant his mind was made up.

  7. There was the notorious Mount, a giant in stringy buckskins, with a paw like a bear and a smooth, boyish face cut by the single, heavy crease of a scar below the right eye.

  8. Sir William, too, had come to some quick conclusion, for I saw the crease deepen around his jaws, and his steady eyes strike fire.

  9. A glancing ball cut a little crease in his scalp, and he thinks he is killed.

  10. I wish you had this little crease in your own scalp," said Talbot, looking savagely at Bristow.

  11. Two and a half inches from the first crease or four and three quarters inches from the outer edge make another crease and cut along it, thus separating the stiffening in two.

  12. Count sixteen threads upon the crease from the hemstitching and with lustre No.

  13. The skirt] Fold lengthwise, find centre of band and crease; one inch from this, crease again.

  14. Turn a quarter-inch fold on one side and crease the material again so as to make a half-inch hem.

  15. Repeat this on each side, cutting along the crease which you made, one half inch from the hemming.

  16. Turn point of paper down one eighth of an inch from bias hem and crease (Figure 48).

  17. A suggestion which may prove helpful to you if the material has starch in it is that it is easy to crease each line of dots before starting to smock.

  18. Open the hem, when finished crease with the thumb-nail till it lies perfectly flat.

  19. Begin at the right-hand side to crease and baste (Figure 41).

  20. Crease along the diagonal of each square.

  21. Now crease the material as if you were going to make a tuck three quarters of an inch deep.

  22. Crease and fold a wide hem (three quarters of an inch), using the measuring card as a guide.

  23. For a two-inch border to be set in four inches from the edge, crease the cushion through the direct centre.

  24. Crease firmly along the diagonal as shown in the diagram.

  25. Crease back one eighth of an inch edge of this pocket, as it were.

  26. Crease it lengthwise so that one edge comes slightly below the other.

  27. Suddenly, without warning, she slid the tip of her long red fingernail sharply down the same crease in his back, where his nerves strained for sensation.

  28. He felt the hard touch of her nipple as it began to trace the crease of his back.

  29. Her eyes opened wide in surprise, and a little crease deepened in the sunny brow as she flung the curls aside.

  30. Jeanne made a little crease in her forehead, and a curl came to the rose red lip.

  31. She looked at Ashton, intent on a crease in his glove, and she broke out stammering: "How dare you say such a thing!

  32. She smoothed a crease in the skirt of her frock.

  33. Instantly the revolver was against his waistcoat, making an unwelcome crease in that immaculate garment.

  34. Fold up the filter gradually as each crease is made, and when finished the filter has assumed the shape of a wedge, as in figure 100, b.

  35. Now subdivide each of the eight sectors by a crease through its centre on the opposite side of the paper, indicated by the faint broken lines in the diagram.

  36. Fold the semicircle exactly in half to form a quadrant; make the crease 2, distinct by running the thumbnail along it, then open the filter out to a semicircle again.

  37. Pinch each leaf from underneath along the crease in the middle, to give the depression at the midrib.

  38. Crease the paper as it is folded by holding one end with the right hand (Fig.

  39. Start again at the opposite corner, gather along the crease to the centre, then wrap and tie (Fig.

  40. Remember always to crease the tissue-paper with the grain of the paper; if you attempt to cross the grain the paper will be very apt to tear.

  41. Find the centre by folding the paper end to end and making the crease shown by dotted line in Fig.

  42. Cook got a crease in the face--a mere wound of the flesh.

  43. No conceivable outburst of emotion could have made him forget to place his coat on the hanger and crease his trousers carefully in the frame.

  44. A moment more and he was removing, hurriedly yet not without an eye for buttons and the crease in the trousers, his business suit.

  45. The boot tends to become worn away at the point of the toes and at the posterior edge of the heel, and the usual crease across the dorsum is absent.

  46. Psmith smoothed a crease out of his waistcoat and tried again.

  47. Mike, who had remained in his crease with the idea that nobody even moderately sane would attempt a run for a hit like that, moved forward in a startled and irresolute manner.

  48. But each time luck was with him, and his bat was across the crease before the bails were off.

  49. Never iron a crease in a garment unless it is necessary.

  50. A crease will mar the effect of the garment and also cause the threads to break sooner, thereby making holes.

  51. And she was distinctly averse to living any longer in the paternal home, lost in a remote crease in a Hampshire down.

  52. Crease this fold distinctly and use the crease as a guide when the sheet is opened out and laid on the pile.

  53. See that crease that runs along his neck ending near the butt of the wing?

  54. Drop your bead on the butt of the wing opposite where that crease ends.

  55. Fold the canvas lengthwise so as to find its exact centre and crease it.

  56. Stretch the canvas the length of the boat with the crease of centre-line along the centre of the keel; pull it as taut as may be and again tack the centre line to the stem at this end of the craft.

  57. I then throw it out on the table and have it scaled, rounded up, made into loaves, set in boxes, dusted with corn meal, with the crease down and set away to prove.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crease" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    carve; character; chisel; cockle; contract; corrugation; crease; crimp; crinkle; crisp; crumple; crush; cut; double; doubling; enfold; engrave; flexure; flounce; flute; fold; frill; furrow; gather; grave; groove; hatch; incise; inscribe; knit; knot; lappet; line; lithograph; mark; plait; plat; pleat; plicate; ply; print; pucker; purse; ridge; ripple; ruche; ruck; ruff; ruffle; rumple; score; scrape; scratch; sculpture; stipple; tool; tuck; twill; wrinkle