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Example sentences for "erasures"

Lexicographically close words:
erased; eraser; erasers; erasing; erasure; erat; erba; erbe; erbout; ercame
  1. For example, photographic enlargements can be and are utilised with great advantage by bringing out minute details, especially in signatures, erasures and alterations.

  2. Notwithstanding the many erasures the diction is still diffuse, and sometimes languishing, though not inelegant.

  3. Beethoven had not expected this and was surprised to note that Madame Bigot did not hesitate at all because of the many erasures and alterations which he had made.

  4. It is, from beginning to end, disfigured by erasures and corrections, and the title-page could never have answered to Ries' description.

  5. He opened a copious fountain, and there were not ten erasures in the original MS.

  6. But other affairs took up his attention, and a dozen or fifteen erasures a week were the most that were made.

  7. There have never been any real emigrants, only absentees; and the proof of this is, that erasures from the list have always been, and will always be, made daily.

  8. The First Consul having been informed that intrigue and even bribery had been employed to obtain them, determined that in future erasures should be part of the business of his cabinet.

  9. Until the middle of the year 1801 the erasures from the emigrant list had always been proposed by the Minister of Police.

  10. This copy has many erasures (Scholz, Greg.

  11. There are many corrections by a more recent hand, erasures by the pen, &c.

  12. Until this date it existed only in manuscript, and was constantly exposed to erasures and additions.

  13. Having talked with him more or less in the past about handwriting I did not have to be told that he was using a microscope to discover any erasures and that photography both direct and by transmitted light might show something.

  14. Even a low magnification frequently reveals a drawing, hesitating method of production, or patched and reinforced strokes as well as erasures by chemicals or by abrasion.

  15. When Phil May has drawn a picture he proceeds to make erasures here and there with a view to retaining wholeness of effect by the least possible number of lines.

  16. For erasures on the flesh side of the vellum the kind of rubber known as kneaded rubber is very useful.

  17. A stylus with one end pointed and the other flattened was used to write with, the writing being done with the sharp point and erasures made with the flattened end.

  18. When using a knife for erasures on vellum it is essential that it should be extremely sharp and that scarcely any pressure be put on it.

  19. The Cambridge manuscript of Milton's Lycidas shows numerous erasures and interlineations.

  20. It was almost impossible to look into any book of merit, and read ten pages together, without coming to some provoking erasures and mutilations, which made whole passages perfectly unintelligible.

  21. Its surface is smooth and hard and, being free from coating of any kind, permits satisfactory erasures without great injury; its color is pure whits; and it is durable.

  22. Erasures on photographs of specimens should be made very carefully with a hard rubber that is free from sand, and the parts not to be disturbed should be protected with a shield.

  23. Erasures should not be made on delicate work with a knife or a sand rubber, as either will injure the surface and affect reproduction.

  24. Erasures can be made with a hard-rubber eraser, other parts being protected by a shield, or with a very sharp knife or a glass eraser, and the parts erased can be resurfaced with an agate burnisher.

  25. Erasures should be made on tracing linen with a hard rubber eraser, not with a sand rubber or a steel eraser.

  26. An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.

  27. In the statement of the Doctrine, for example, there are several erasures and corrections before the right formula is hit upon.

  28. The manuscript of this sermon is more than usually full of erasures and insertions, making it almost impossible to read, but suggesting something of the labor and care expended on its composition.

  29. The erasures are so few, in fact, that they refute the theory.

  30. Foul copy, a rough draught, with erasures and corrections; -- opposed to fair or clean copy.

  31. Scoutteten, 1853, treated paper with caoutchoue dissolved in bisulphide of carbon, in order to render it impermeable and to prevent erasures or chemical action.

  32. This must be produced by the master before any consul or commercial agent who may demand it, and all erasures in it or writings in a different hand shall be deemed fraudulent, unless satisfactorily explained.

  33. This should be neatly and carefully kept, and all interlineations and erasures should be avoided, as they always raise suspicion.

  34. This must be a fair and true copy, without erasures or interlineations.

  35. All erasures and interlineations shall be deemed fraudulent unless proved to be innocent and bona fide.

  36. Singularly enough, when he had done reading, he told me he did not wish the author to know that all these erasures and corrections were made by so important a hand, and he directed me to take them upon myself.

  37. Then the chief editor went on with his erasures and interlineations.

  38. It was scarred with erasures and interlineations till its mother wouldn't have known it if it had had one.


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