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Example sentences for "fillet"

Lexicographically close words:
filled; filler; fillers; filles; fillest; filleted; filleth; filleting; fillets; fillies
  1. With a fillet bound about her brow, A fillet round her happy brow, A golden fillet round her brow, And rubies in her hair.

  2. A daughter with the mother's hands still clasped Over her head for fillet virginal, A wife worth Guido's house and hand and heart?

  3. About her forehead she bound a narrow fillet of fine, furry hares' skin.

  4. His glistening black hair, bound about his forehead by a narrow fillet of skins, fell riotously over his shoulders.

  5. The hair is kept in its place by means of a fillet fastened at the back.

  6. Her features conform to the usual Sumerian type, while her long hair is tied with a fillet which surrounds her head and gathers up her flowing tresses at the back.

  7. Her long hair hangs naturally and loosely down her back, while a thick fillet encircles her head.

  8. Her thick, wavy hair hangs plait-wise down her back, and a raised fillet surrounds her head.

  9. A fillet to which is attached a feather, encircles the man's head.

  10. The better equipped of the light-armed are clad in a short tunic, wear a peculiar kind of fillet round their heads, and sandals on their feet, while they carry short swords at their sides and quivers on their backs.

  11. B, C), sometimes being gathered up behind and secured by a fillet (cf.

  12. Fillet A is all that is left (within the bulb) of the stem which flowered eighteen months ago.

  13. Fillet C is the remains of the stem of the last flower borne by the bulb, six months before.

  14. Fillet D is the stem which is about to flower in six months’ time (the flower buds are already sufficiently formed to be seen), and E contains the stem and tunic leaves, which are to come into bud in another eighteen months.

  15. Its height is the same; the neck is a little higher up, and is encircled by a single fillet of an undulating curvature.

  16. A fillet runs three or four times round it just below the neck.

  17. Others think that a coif or fillet of net-work is alluded to.

  18. The fillet of veal, corresponding to the round of beef, must be carved in the same way, in horizontal slices, with a sharp knife to preserve the smooth surface.

  19. The exceptions to this rule are the fillet or under-cut in a sirloin of beef, and the slices along the bone in a saddle of mutton.

  20. Acamas, the son of Theseus, old Nestor, Agamemnon, bearing a sceptre and with a fillet on his brow, gazed at the prodigy.

  21. A fillet of gold bound his hair, and he was wearing his great sword, and an enamelled belt over his rich tunic.

  22. Igraine hoped for the track, and found it running like a white fillet about the brow of a wood.

  23. No crown, coronet, or fillet was on his brow; on his finger he wore the signet of Ambrosius, and his sword was girded to him with a girdle of embroidered leather.

  24. He was clad in a cloak of sombre purple, wreathed about with strange devices, and a leopard's skin covered his shoulders; his black hair was bound with a fillet of gold, and there were gold bracelets upon his wrists.

  25. Torchlight glimmered on the fillet of gold about his hair, on the splendid setting of his baldric, and the scabbard of his sword.

  26. And suddenly he became aware of a sort of human breeze--a short, slight form clad in a sea-green djibbah with a metal belt and a fillet binding unruly red-gold hair all streaked with grey.

  27. Then spread over the fillet a small quantity of raw, chopped, well-seasoned meat, roll together and tie.

  28. The intervals between the niches are very neatly filled with diminutive pilasters and other ornaments, displaying real taste and skill, which again support a double fillet projecting all round.

  29. One carved most beautifully, with a running festooned beading, with intermediate knots and pendents, each festoon filled with a lively representation of a parroquet with expanded wings, the other fillet with a fancy pattern more simple.

  30. Out of doors it is kept from falling over the face by a fillet round the brow.

  31. Like the men, they cut their hair short for two or three inches above the nape of the neck, but instead of using a fillet they take two locks from the front and tie them at the back.

  32. Before the silver cord be broken, and the golden fillet shrink back, and the pitcher be crushed at the fountain, and the wheel be broken upon the cistern, 12:7.

  33. Being fastened to the girdle, and strongly coupled with rings, which a violet fillet joined, lest they should flag loose, and be moved one from the other, as the Lord commanded Moses.

  34. Fillet opened his mark-book and read the names in the order of last term's examination-list, which brought Doe's name first.

  35. Fillet was winning; he had won when he caned me for asking the number of the sum; he had won when he gave me the thousand lines; and now he was assaulting in mass formation with the whole school as his allies.

  36. And now there only remained the very concrete Fillet to be driven in disorder from the field.

  37. Fillet occupied that place in my schooldays.

  38. We were walking in our flannels towards the Nursery gates, when Doe, referring with bad taste to the Fillet incident just closed, began to chastise me with his cricket bat.

  39. That night, I say, while honest men and boys slept, Mr. Fillet sat up in bed and listened.

  40. Fillet also formally proffered his hand, and I pressed it quite heartily.

  41. I felt I could beat Fillet with cleaner weapons than an exploiting of his affliction: and the more I thought of it, the more I decided that I must go and apologise to him.

  42. Hearing Fillet grunt at my knock, I walked in to execution.

  43. The boy would argue with glowing force that it would stand that and more; and Fillet would put the opposing case with irritating contumacy.

  44. Fillet realised that it was War and the first shots had been exchanged.

  45. Now Fillet was in the worst of tempers, having been just incensed by a boy who had declared that two gills equalled one pint, two pints one quart, and two quarts one rod, pole, or perch.

  46. It brought us to our fourteenth year, at which period Doe's mysterious intrigue with Freedham still awaited solution, and my Armageddon with Fillet still languished in a sort of trench-warfare.

  47. As I drew near the class-room door I certainly felt uncomfortable, for I knew Fillet intended to sting.

  48. To make Metheglin To make a sallet of smelts To roast a Fillet Beefe To make a sallet of a cold Hen or Capon.

  49. To dresse a Fillet of Veal the Italian way.

  50. To dresse a Fillet of Veale the Italian way.

  51. The fillet polishes whilst running on, the die remains on the one place, and yet every part must receive an equally good impression.

  52. The hair is coarse and lustreless, its blackness relieved by a fillet or handkerchief of scarlet.

  53. They generally take the form of silver necklets and the red fillet bound in their hair.

  54. Then she smiled, as one that hath a bright thought, and straightway loosed the golden fillet that bound her glowing tresses so that they fell about her in all their glory, rippling far down her broidered habit.

  55. It fell like a red shining cloak all round her, kept in only by a thin fillet of gold, while her dark eyes gleamed with a new excitement.

  56. It will be simply too gorgeously wonderful, with just a fillet of gold round her head, and all her adorable red hair hanging down," Lady Anningford said to Ethelrida.

  57. Generally a two-line fillet only is used round the edge, so that the width of the fillet or roll must determine the width to be glaired.

  58. Small circular tools, adapted to “stop” a fillet when it intersects at right angles; used to save the time mitringmitreing would occupy.

  59. A fine line worked on the centre of the edge of the board by means of a fillet looks better, and of course requires more pains than simply running a roll over it.

  60. When dry, make the fillet immovable by driving a wooden wedge between the roll and fork, and gigger it backwards and forwards to produce the gloss.

  61. When glaired twice and dry, take up the gold on the fillet or roll and work it evenly and straightly round the edge.

  62. When the back has a fillet ran from head to tail without being mitred at each band, it is said to be “run-up.

  63. Place the book on its ends in the |133| finishing press to keep it steady, or it will shake and throw the fillet off.

  64. Lay on the gold and work the fillet carefully.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fillet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    band; bandage; bandeau; belt; bracelet; braid; button; cincture; collar; crown; drapery; earring; ecliptic; equator; fascia; fastener; fillet; frieze; girdle; girth; hoop; lace; lacing; lath; list; necklace; plank; quoit; ribbon; ring; shred; slat; slip; spill; strap; strip; stripe; strop; tape; wristband; zodiac