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Example sentences for "gasometers"

Lexicographically close words:
gaslights; gaslit; gasolene; gasoline; gasometer; gasp; gasped; gasping; gaspingly; gasps
  1. Gasometers whose height is greater than their semi-diameter, are not only more costly in the construction, but require heavier counterweights and equilibration chains.

  2. The gasometers employed in storing up gas until required for use, occupy, upon the old plan, much space, and are attended with considerable expense in erecting.

  3. The Imperial Gas Light and Coke Company had at that time 6 gasometers in progress at their Hackney station.

  4. Behind it a second air-fleet was already swelling at its gasometers when England and France and Spain and Italy showed their hands.

  5. The view from Maidenhead Bridge northwards--for here the river runs due south--is spoilt by the gasometers which rise over the willow-covered islets.

  6. The large gasometers opposite London Stone are not the only blemishes.

  7. By a devious route amid ghostly gasometers I had crept to my post in the early dusk, before the moon was risen, and already I was heartily weary of my passive part in the affair of the night.

  8. On we went, following the course of the river, then turned over Vauxhall Bridge and on down Vauxhall Bridge Road into a very dreary neighborhood where gasometers formed the notable feature of the landscape.

  9. From the Imperial there to the railway station and the gasometers at the back isn't much more than half a mile; the town seems to press down to the front just as the horses draw the bathing-vans down to the tide.

  10. The gases are stored either in copper gasometers or in air-tight bags of Macintosh cloth, capable of containing from four to six cubic feet of gas, and provided with pressure boards.


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