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Example sentences for "feeders"

Lexicographically close words:
feebly; feed; feedback; feede; feeder; feedes; feedest; feedeth; feeding; feedings
  1. More hours passed; then the mill feeders held another meeting.

  2. The tongue became parched and all the mill feeders were unhappy.

  3. Dialects have always been the feeders rather than the channels of a literary language; anyhow, they are parallel streams which existed long before one of them was raised to that temporary eminence which is the result of literary cultivation.

  4. While thus endeavoring to place the character of dialects, as the feeders of language, in a clear light, I may appear to some of my hearers to have exaggerated their importance.

  5. Hayes drew up a working plan of grammar and high schools for Shantung which were to be feeders to this provincial college.

  6. On August 4th he ordered that numerous preparatory schools be established in Peking as special feeders to the university; and on the 9th appointed Dr.

  7. In stockers and feeders we lead the world; in fat cattle we are second only to Chicago.

  8. Dora escorted Morgan to a table apart from the few heavy feeders who were already engaged, indicating to the other two girls who served with her in the dining-room that this was her special customer and guest of honor.

  9. Night by night he felt, rather than saw, the growing insolence of the pale feeders on the profits of vice, the confidence in some approaching triumph gleaming in their furtive eyes.

  10. Footnote 8: Means "my hundred thousand hearty curses on the feeders of swine.

  11. In addition there had been added various feeders or branches, giving the road an entry into Scranton, Pennsylvania, and into Geneva and Buffalo, New York.

  12. While after ten years of work the main system still radiated through most of the territory already occupied in a crude way in 1894, yet it had acquired a large number of feeders and smaller railroads in other sections.

  13. Some of our feeders are undoubtedly inclined to market too young.

  14. Middlekauff's look rough, and all the feeders think he'll lose money on them.

  15. The rations used contain no new or wonderful constituent, and although individual feeders may have their own formulas, the general composition of the feed is common knowledge.

  16. Brahmas and Cochins are not considered good feeders at the age when they are commonly sold.

  17. The carrion-feeders and Brachelytra are very uncommon; on the other hand, the Rhyncophora and Chrysomelidae, all of which depend on the vegetable world for subsistence, are present in astonishing numbers.

  18. Of all the carrion-feeders it is generally the last which leaves the skeleton of a dead animal, and may often be seen within the ribs of a cow or horse, like a bird in a cage.

  19. Sierra Madre, or the watershed to the western feeders of the Rio Grande and River Yaqui, and others falling into the Gulf of California.

  20. Brooko and Fuladu, between the great eastern feeders of the Senegal north of Jallonka Mandingos.

  21. Banks of the KĂștani River, one of the feeders of the Columbia.

  22. They are tillers of the soil, and (as such) agriculturists rather than hunters, fishers, or feeders of flocks and herds.

  23. These he places in the country, drained by the northern feeders of the Upper Danube, believing that from this point the migration took place by the waters of the Danube rather than by land.

  24. Broadly speaking, we may say between these three nations the basins of all the feeders of the Upper Mississippi are distributed: the exceptions being insignificant.

  25. The rivers Vichada, Guaiare, Meta, Ventuari, and other feeders of the Orinoco.

  26. I believe there is no greater mistake made by feeders than that of giving excessive quantities of this substance to stock.

  27. Some feeders give young store pigs half-a-pint of peas, mixed with pulped mangel, and the quantum of peas is gradually increased to one pint per diem.

  28. Intelligent feeders have remarked, that cattle which had been always supplied with a moderate allowance of this food fattened more readily upon it, during their finishing stage, than did stock which had not been accustomed to its use.

  29. To me it appears manifestly incorrect to consider, as feeders practically do, the value of linseed-cake to be seven or eight times greater than that of oat-straw, and twenty times greater than that of roots.

  30. Different feeders have different dietaries, and the nature of the aliments supplied to fattening stock depends very much upon the market prices of food-stuffs, and the locality in which the feeding-house is situated.

  31. Some feeders prefer using dry fodder, or cooked food of some kind, and not raw roots.

  32. It occasionally happens that the wheat harvest is so abundant, that many feeders give large quantities of this grain to their stock.

  33. Anderson's analysis of Kohl-rabi afforded results more favorable to the highly nutritive character assigned by some feeders to that bulb than those arrived at by me.

  34. It is only the feeders of young stock in wet, moory, sandy, or undrained, heavy soils who really have cause for anxiety and incessant watchfulness.

  35. There are many feeders who sell their half-finished cattle at a profit, and yet they cannot, without loss, convert their stock into those obese monsters which are so much admired at agricultural shows.

  36. No doubt, most feeders are practically acquainted with the relative value of corn and oil-cake--of Swedish turnips and white turnips; but their knowledge of the food equivalents of many other substances is still very defective.

  37. The Grass Feeders will wax fat for the benefit of the Meat Eaters.

  38. Never had he seen Grass Feeders of this bulk.

  39. How like vultures these feeders were, A'tim thought.

  40. Now I know of a surety why the Flesh Feeders have fled the Boundaries; it is the Plague Year of Wapoos.

  41. They generally begin as machine feeders of the ruling machine.

  42. Other firms did not know what became of machine feeders when they grew dissatisfied with the small wage paid to them.

  43. For long runs such feeders as have been designed may serve fairly well, but in shops with much jobbing and many short runs too much time would be spent in adjusting the feeder to the particular job.

  44. What has been said of feeders under letterpress printing is generally true of feeders in the lithographic branch.

  45. Although the girls engaged in folding and the allied processes are as a rule of higher intelligence than mill girls and machine feeders and drawn from different social strata, there are many who come, frail and under-fed, from very poor homes.

  46. In the best workshops we were told that the firm tried to find better work for machine feeders when they had been some time with them and had proved themselves capable and steady.

  47. Girls who start as feeders are sometimes promoted to the supervision of simple ruling machines.

  48. While all modern machines are fitted with self-fliers, not one of the many attempts to provide automatic feeders has proved quite satisfactory.

  49. Girls do not, and boys as feeders do, "constitute a danger to the Society.

  50. The various cakes seem to have been fed in a dry condition, but other pig feeders have found it beneficial to soak the cake in water for some twelve hours.

  51. One of the most common mistakes made by pig feeders is allowing too long a time to pass between feeding times.

  52. There are many causes which have helped to render it possible for foreigners to supply us with a certain proportion of the pork and bacon which we require at a less cost than our home breeder and feeders of pigs can supply it.

  53. Some of our most successful pig feeders on a large scale have found it profitable to erect cheap buildings very similar to small barns, the side walls being at least 10 feet high.

  54. The comparatively small number of pigmen who assisted him to win thousands of prizes were merely ordinary farm labourers, save in one case, and he was an old sailor, yet one of the best feeders and trainers we ever employed.

  55. Occasionally they appear to have been the feeders of the great sheets of igneous rock which here and there occur in their vicinity.

  56. There came Neff Sanders, one of the feeders at the mill, with a basket on his arm.

  57. I know that many branches of science are of the greatest value as feeders of our medical reservoirs.

  58. But people you talk with every day have got to have feeders for their minds, as much as the stream that turns a millwheel has.

  59. But generally speaking the cattle feeder with good judgment in the breeding and selection of feeders meets with no obstacles in financing his operations.

  60. Such expert selection of feeders would take the guesswork out of the first and most important step in feeding.

  61. But many of them urge the borrowing feeders to keep accounts and determine accurately their profits and losses.

  62. Brooks and springs formed in this way are constant feeders of rivers and lakes.

  63. My impression is, after hearing everybody's story on the matter, that these streams enter at opposite sides of the lake, on the northern side of the equator, and are consequently very considerable feeders to it.

  64. The Panjani, Kingani, and Lufiji rivers are full of them, as well as all the other minor feeders to the sea along that coast.

  65. The total drainage area, including the other important feeders of Lough Neagh, is about 2300 sq.

  66. Third-grade hospitals or reception stations are required for small stations principally, to act as feeders to the large hospitals, and to deal with accident and non-transportable cases.


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