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Example sentences for "extraction"

Lexicographically close words:
extra; extracellular; extract; extracted; extracting; extractions; extractive; extractives; extractor; extractors
  1. The risk attending the extraction of large articles or the disgrace incurred by pilfering is, they grant, all the punishment necessary, and these seldom are attended with any serious consequences.

  2. In a double extraction of hard cataract there was no pain produced by the graspings of the conjunctiva in the fixation of the eyes, in the corneal incisions, and in the iridectomies.

  3. In a single extraction of hard cataract a 4 per centum solution was brushed over the ocular and palpebral conjunctiva, with the eyelids freely everted.

  4. A press release announced that an experimental extraction technique had yielded results that were higher than expected.

  5. Optimists brought up investor resistance to heap leaching, an extraction method that had made fortunes in the 80's.

  6. The company made bland assurances about ongoing efforts to improve the extraction technique, but there were no hard numbers and they were running out of development capital.

  7. When the audit report was finally released, it verified only the original assay results, a year old, and made no mention of the extraction yields.

  8. The Elamite usurper having died about the year 1030, a Babylonian of noble extraction expelled the intruders, and succeeded in bringing the larger part of the kingdom under his rule.

  9. With regard to the extraction of the Touaricks, I asked one of these people where his countrymen sprang from.

  10. The Shereef's mother is not a Touarick woman, and the Sheikh has another wife of Touarick extraction in the districts.

  11. Many words of foreign extraction are used, where, I believe, common ones would do as well, especially on familiar occasions.

  12. The governour had excellent animal spirits, the conversation of a soldier, and somewhat of a Frenchman, to which his extraction entitles him.

  13. Had she been a person of low extraction there would have been no difficulty in dealing with her.

  14. Madame Steynlin, a lady of Dutch extraction whose hats were proverbial, was uncompromisingly Lutheran.

  15. There are still thousands of acres suitable for its culture in the Philippines, but the extraction of the fiber awaits some inventive genius who will make a machine for that purpose.

  16. The extraction of these fibers by machinery or chemically will open up a large commerce in such plant products, the value of which is now unsuspected or ignored.

  17. After extraction the fiber is stretched out on racks to dry and is then ready for manufacture into rope.

  18. All that is known of Zenobia's extraction is, that she claimed a descent from the Ptolemies of Egypt[57]; and that she boasted of having Cleopatra for an ancestress.

  19. Roman ladies of the noblest extraction were submitted to the basest and vilest prostitution.

  20. From this point of view it will be seen that the interests of all those who desire to see a rise in general prices are to a large extent bound up in the improvement of methods for the extraction of gold.

  21. Under this process the cane is not treated in the usual manner of crushing for the extraction of sugar.

  22. This method is said to achieve an almost complete extraction of the sugar, whereas the old method of crushing loses about twenty per cent of the sugar and injures the fibers.

  23. Bodegesil was as cruel towards his slaves of his own German extraction as towards those of the Gallic race.

  24. I wished to join Charles and decided to conceal my extraction and pass for the son of a Frankish seigneur so as to interest Charles in my fortunes.

  25. To extract the flavoring oils at the boiling point of water, and to avoid the extraction of the tannin.

  26. To extract flavor by allowing the leaves to remain for a few minutes, in water which has been poured on at the boiling temperature, and to avoid the extraction of tannin by making the period of steeping short.

  27. But these mandrake fables are mostly of foreign extraction and of very ancient date.

  28. In Thuringia, on the extraction of a tooth, the person must eat three daisies to be henceforth free from toothache.

  29. For instance, the only metallurgical operation for the extraction of gold employed up to 1889 was the stamping mill, and fine gold and amalgam were necessarily abundant in the tailings which were cast away on the spoil heap.

  30. By means of these it raised its gold extraction from 65 to 90 per cent.

  31. Although of French Canadian extraction he speaks English fluently and often addressed the house of commons in that language.

  32. Of old and distinguished pioneer stock of French extraction Clément Antoine Guertin upholds the traditions of family prominence as one of the most able legal representatives of the Montreal and provincial bar.

  33. They used torture for the extraction of answers from reluctant persons, employed the scourge to punish trifling offences, and, in certain cases, condescended to mutilate the bodies of their dead enemies.

  34. At any rate Phraataces provoked suspicion by the singular favors and honors which he granted to a woman whose origin was mean and extraction foreign.

  35. Again, it is said that the Parthians show their Arian extraction by their names; but this argument may be turned against those who adduce it.

  36. Secret of the Stone is the extraction of salt from all matter, 779-u.

  37. When one, by absolute initiation, comes to control the forces of the universal agent, he always has this stone at his disposal, for its extraction is then a simple and easy operation, very distinct from the metallic projection or realization.


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