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Example sentences for "eave"

Lexicographically close words:
eather; eatin; eating; eats; eau; eaved; eaven; eaves; eavesdrop; eavesdropper
  1. McDowell of the Pleasant Garden, absolutely refused, and stated that they would drive the Whig stock into the deep coves under the eave of the Black Mountain; that others might take protection and save the stock that remained behind.

  2. Nail’s that night where they met Daniel Smith, Thomas Lytle, Joseph McDowell and Robert Patton, the persons who had driven the whig stock into the coves under the eave of the Black Mountains, and also those who had taken protection.

  3. A pair of bluebirds visited the gourd-shaped nest of an Eave Swallow, built the season before.

  4. The eave swallow builds its gourd-shaped nest under the eaves of the barn, as you doubtless understood from his name.

  5. Eave swallows resemble their cousins the barn swallows in shape and color, but they are not as graceful and lack the forked tail.

  6. There are the common barn swallow, the eave swallow, tree swallow and bank swallow.

  7. In truth where there was scant foothold for a goat," said Birbal glibly, trying to get through with confession lightly, "on the wide eave of the turret.

  8. Some sparrows in the eave were chirruping incessantly.

  9. Slower and slower came his sentences, and as the last word died away he was heard to be asleep, breathing through a tiny hole left beneath the eave of his moustache.

  10. He hung underneath an eave of the soft surface and could not be moved.

  11. Now, a cornice is an overhanging eave of snow which has been formed by the wind blowing across a ridge.

  12. Weave the warp and weave the woof" (Gray).

  13. In the mean time, Prank, with the cards in his hand, went to the eave of the barn, I thrust them up under the thatch, and took out of the same nook a flask of whiskey.

  14. The eave swallow and barn swallow and the chimney swift all belie their names in the few wild haunts still uninvaded by man.

  15. Most pleasant it is to see the eave swallow dive down from the roof and rush over the scarcely green garden--a household sign of summer.

  16. The stable fronted south; there were nests front and back, north and south; the chapel eave that was frequented faced towards the west.

  17. I had to get special permission to 1eave the base to get married because we were now on alert to be shipped overseas.

  18. I had already made up my mind to get out so gradually got all the necessary papers signed and got ready to 1eave for home.

  19. Fifty thousand Eave Swallows are seated on the protruding tops of sunflowers, which grow here among the spartina in restricted areas, covering a few acres in the middle of the marsh!

  20. At the end of a row of your brothers' nests, as the Eave Swallows do?

  21. I followed him, and could soon hear the pitiful cries of a sparrow, up near a spout that comes out from under the wooden eave of the tallest gable of the cottage.

  22. Full of excitement, the cock bird had hopped down between the woodwork of the eave and the spout, and seeing a crack about half an inch wide beneath, had attempted to come out there.

  23. Then the moon came up, and he found himself sitting under the eave of a barn close to a chalet where all was dark and quiet; and down below him the moon-whitened valley village--its roofs and spires and little glamorous unreal lights.

  24. Mark's is above--look, under where the eave hangs out, away to the left.

  25. The barn swallow, as we have seen, chooses to nest upon the rafters inside the barn, but the eave swallow is content to stay outside under the shelter of a projecting roof.

  26. In such a place you find not one, but several or many mud tenements plastered in a row against the wall, for eave swallows are always remarkably sociable, even at the nesting season.

  27. Imboden, to avoid a small cornice or overhanging eave of snow to our right, now took a few steps along and below the ridge to the left, while the man behind me came in the tracks to the crest, and I followed the leader.

  28. Happily, he was well protected against the falling snow by the eave of the overhanging rock, but it covered his knees and boots, causing him intense cold in the feet.

  29. The eave swallows put their mud cottages in a row, under the eaves outside the barn.

  30. The swallows I have mentioned, barn swallow, eave swallow, and purple martin, are found all over our country.

  31. It was when a recent shower had left little puddles in the clay road, and the eave swallows from a house across the meadow came down to procure material for their adobe structures.

  32. And after the young were out, there was every day a baby show, the eave and tree swallows having adopted the wires as their out-of-door nursery.

  33. At the opposite side was a high and steep bank of ice which prolonged itself downwards, and ended in a dependent eave of snow which quite overhung the chasm, and reached to within about a yard of our edge of the crevasse.

  34. The rope was now brought forward and tied round the waist of one of the porters; another step was cautiously made in the eave of snow, the man was helped across, and lessened his own weight by means of his hatchet.

  35. We now chose the ordinary route, breasting the slope until we reached the cluster of chalets, under the projecting eave of one of which the men halted and applied "pattens" to their feet.

  36. This is what is commonly called the Eave Swallow in the East, because of its habit of plastering its nests on the outside of barns or other buildings, up under the eaves.


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