No threads at all are cut, which makes it more even and durable No.
That few of such ancient specimens remain is no doubt due to the linen thread being less durable than the silk and also to that arch enemy of lace in all ages, the washerwoman.
Granite, syenite, gneiss, basalt and other hard or durable rocks.
Split up finely they afford a most durable material for weaving into mats, baskets, window-blinds, ropes and even sails of boats.
The wood is durable under water, and is said by Virgil to have been the first wood used by man for boats.
The wood is dark colored, solid, and very durable under water and is much used in cabinet making, for weirs, and for fuel.
The wood is durable in contact with the soil and is much used for fence posts and railway ties.
Intelligent industry, without the inducement of prizes, is a far more precious and far more durable habit than industry stimulated by incessant competition.
And some of them were for solace and delight; and, I must add, some for durable habitation.
Here therefore you see are chambers for rest, chambers for safety, chambers for treasure, chambers for solace, and chambers for durable habitations.
It is a durable method of work, and particularly suitable for the decoration of various house-linens, things that must undergo daily wear and wash; its rather unobtrusive character too makes it the more suitable for this purpose.
It is a particularly durable method of embroidering, and this makes it suitable for use upon anything subjected to hard wear.
Owing to the length of the stitches, this is not a very durable method, so it should not be subjected to hard wear.
One of the simplest and most durable is a running of thread as illustrated in fig.
The second half of the diagram shows a durable and simple fringe made by a close series of knots down the thread.
He knew that the triumphs of reason are more durable than those which are the offspring of excited feeling.
It is reserved to but few of the profession to so impress their views upon the courts, in advance of public opinion, and to prepare so admirable a collocation of the law and to establish so durable a reputation upon any one case.
The skins are largely imported into England, for the manufacture of articles in which a cheap and durable fur is required.
Spalding's Boys' Mitt, leather front hand-piece; a strong and durable glove for boys.
The question of Livland had added another item to the many vexed points which made a durable reconciliation impossible.
Victory did not blind Gedimin to the advantages of a durable peace with the Order, to secure which he was even ready to adopt the faith of the foes he had so often conquered.
Every species of masonry described by Vitruvius, it is said, may here be met with; but the cheapest and most durable sorts have been generally preferred.
When the rocks are of unequal hardness the coast-line becomes very irregular, the sea carving out bays and gullies in the softer portions, while the more durable masses stand out as capes and bold headlands.
The great majority of isolated hills and hilly tracts owe their existence as such merely to the fact that they are formed of more durable materials than the rock-masses by which they are surrounded.
He certainly had the fancy of a poet, and wrote in durable materials.
The basis of the patriarchal family is the patria potestas, but in its "normal shape" it has not been and could not be "generally a durable institution.
The "relations of the sexes are, as a rule, of a more or less durable character.
Sidenote: Desire for a firm, just and durable peace.
Such a style of oratory would leave durable impressions, and be felt as well as heard.
The completion of the edifice will indeed be the more tardy, but it will not be the less durable for having been longer delayed.
Both of these national proverbs are correct for common, every-day lime; but you know, do you not, that limestone soils are usually very good and very durable soils?
We’ve got to fight against its spreadin’, and it’s goin’ to be a durable struggle.
More and better and more durable machinery, consequently, so far forth, tends at once to enhance the rate of laborers' wages and increase the purchasing power of the unit in which wages are paid.
No durable system of jurisprudence could be produced in this way.
It will be found to have stamped itself on all the great departments of jurisprudence, and may be detected, I think, as the true source of many of their most important and most durable characteristics.
Indeed, the relation of a female to the family in which she was born is much stricter, closer, and more durable than that which unites her male kinsmen.
Several other forms of universal succession appear in the primitive Roman Law, but infinitely the most important and the most durable of all was that one with which we are more immediately concerned, Hæreditas or Inheritance.
The consequence is, that his fame is as durable as his principles, as lasting as truth and virtue themselves.
The Society whose organ I am[3] was formed for the purpose of rearing some honorable and durable monument to the memory of the early friends of American Independence.
With pieces of brick and stone a concrete was formed which was poured in a liquid state between wooden casings, and when set proved to be one of the hardest and most durable of the materials used.
An extremely hard stucco was made with lime and powdered marble--it was nearly as durable as marble and could take almost as high a polish.
It is a cream-coloured stone hard and durable though easily calcined by fire, formed by deposit in running water.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "durable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
