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Example sentences for "glue"

Lexicographically close words:
gloze; glozing; glucose; glucoside; glucosides; glued; glueing; glues; gluey; gluing
  1. This glue is wonderfully tenacious and will actually hold the edges of paper together.

  2. If I wanted to pass this check through the bank I would only have to complete the job by smearing a drop of the invisible glue over the back where I have plugged the original holes.

  3. The crook simply punches out enough disks from the edge to fill up the last dollar mark completely, and after he has plugged it and the glue is dry he punches a cipher into the place and then punches a dollar mark after it.

  4. All the outfit that is needed is a common little punch with assorted small cutting tubes and a bottle of an invisible glue that every crook can make or that he can buy in certain places that every crook knows.

  5. The usual proportions for the compound are, phosphorus four parts, nitre ten, glue six, red ochre five, and smalt two.

  6. Sights, sounds, motions, passed in a confused way through his mind as the smell of the glue crept through his nostrils; and he struggled hard to remember.

  7. He saw the work of his hands, the things he had made with adze and plane, with chisel and hammer, but nothing seemed familiar save the smell of the glue pot, which brought back in a cloudy impression curious unfamiliar feelings.

  8. The Southern states had seceded from the Union, the Confederacy was established, with Jefferson Davis as its President, the Union had been split in two, and the task Lincoln had before him was to glue the two parts of the Republic together.

  9. A large zinc plate is coated with glue, neither too thick nor too thin, the cover is laid face downwards and taken up, so that it is evenly coated all over with the glue or paste.

  10. Glue is made from the well-known cake glue.

  11. In glueing cloth it must be seen that the glue is well rubbed into the grain or artificial indentations.

  12. As piles of pieces of cloth shift about in glueing, a touch of glue is given to two corners of the pile and left to dry a little.

  13. Glue should never be boiled nor placed directly on the fire, as that causes the loss of the best part of its adhesive property.

  14. Glue if weighed before soaking and afterwards dried and again weighed should give no perceptible loss in weight.

  15. Illustration: Cover corner shapes, 3 Glue is used for fixing on cloth corners, but strong paste is always used for leather.

  16. Where it is possible to glue up hot, the back should be made in advance.

  17. The best of all means is glue or gelatine; the former turns the paper somewhat yellow.

  18. Very frequently the glue comes through and spoils the end papers.

  19. After the glue has set a little, the end papers are pasted on, i.

  20. Good glue whilst soaking in water should still retain a certain degree of stickiness, must not be greasy, and should have no disagreeable smell.

  21. To obtain the proper consistency in glue for bookbinding, a quantity of the cakes is taken and sufficient water poured over it to cover well.

  22. For the sake of convenience a partition is let into this pot so that thick and thin glue may be ready for use at the same time.

  23. The outer envelope of silk-glue or sericin can be dissolved off the inner fibroïn fibre by means of hot water, or warm water with a little soap.

  24. A Practical Treatise of their Utilisation and Value in Oil, Grease, Soap, Paint, Glue and other Industries.

  25. Not being able to find the pelt-ball, he inked the type with a piece of soft glue which had fallen out of a glue pot.

  26. Fish glue; isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds of certain fishes.

  27. To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter.

  28. The ground is then well wetted with glue at a high temperature and the surfaces squeezed tightly together between frames called "cauls" till the glue is hard.

  29. Is there anything to be put in glue to prevent moisture from disturbing the joints in patterns?

  30. It may be rendered more permanent by adding some liquid glue (solution of glue in acetic acid) or some starch paste, prepared with the addition of a little wax.

  31. A little bichromate of potash put into your glue will render it insoluble, after exposure to light.

  32. With the contents of a penny bottle of liquid glue he glued down the leathers he had raised, one by one, and then left the thing to be dry by the morning--which it was, solidly dry.

  33. As soon as the wax is dry, the industrious chain carries them over a dipping-roll covered with a layer consisting partly of glue and rosin.

  34. Currents of air now play upon the splint, and in about ten minutes the glue and rosin on one end of it have hardened into a hard bulb.

  35. The volume in every way fully maintains the high standard of excellence of the whole series, and deals with the subject of glue making and glue testing in a thoroughly exhaustive manner.

  36. Books on the art of glue making are more than usually scarce, and users of that article, as well as those who may be tempted to embark in the industry, should therefore welcome this book by Dr.

  37. Exhaustive chapters on the processes and methods of glue testing, and on its commercial aspects, complete this useful and most carefully prepared volume.

  38. Many tests are given for glue in different stages of the progress of its manufacture, and the commercial value of a commodity so much in general use is exemplified by statistics and figures.

  39. In this book he has collected the more important facts connected with the manufacture of glue and allied products, and stated the experience he has gained in examining various commercial samples during the past ten years.

  40. Some of the best families in New York are connected with Newtown Creek glue and they, it seems, had stuck to me in this emergency.

  41. A fish man will believe anything a glue man tells him; I don't know why, but it's so, and the fact was certainly to my advantage.

  42. How would old Sally Glue do for a May Queen?

  43. The cocoon is placed in hot water to soften the glue which holds the fibers together.

  44. Then the softeners are added, such as soaps, oils, and animal fats; next a small amount of gelatine or glue is stirred in and some form of preservative, usually chloride of zinc or salicylic acid.

  45. Then she directed him to take pasteboard and glue and make three large castles; and calling up three large griffins, she tied a castle to each, and away they flew up into the air.

  46. For obvious reasons it is a great advantage to put the print under pressure to cause the glue image to sink into the soft metal base and leave a perfectly flat and smooth surface.

  47. A glue solution used by professional photo-engravers is as follows: Fish-glue 12 oz.

  48. In working, the metal print is wrapped tightly round the cylinder of the machine, the glue image being, of course, uppermost.

  49. To render the glue image more distinct the print should be immersed for a few seconds in an aniline dye solution, the glue taking up the colour readily.

  50. The latter is then laid on the paint; new weights are placed above it, and they are left two or three days longer, for this new glue to harden.

  51. When the wood is away, glue is applied to the back of the paint, and to the canvass on which it is intended the picture shall remain.

  52. Weights are now laid on the back of the picture, and it is left for a day or two, in order that the glue may harden.

  53. The plan, or the original drawing, is placed against a glass plate, coated with a mixture of bitumen and of marine-glue dissolved in benzine.

  54. We are, therefore, in the right road, not only for economically producing permanent prints on paper, but also for making zinc plates in which the phototype film of bichromatized gelatine is replaced by a solution of marine-glue and benzine.

  55. The marine-glue gives the bitumen greater pliancy, and prevents it from scaling off when rubbed, particularly when the plate is retouched with a dry point.

  56. These sensitive substances are extracted by dissolving marine glue or coal-tar in benzine.

  57. But while with us he used shellac to protect the glue and wood.

  58. Put a little liquid glue on the space reserved for binding and, while revolving the shaft under your arm, apply the ribbon in lapping spirals over the feather ribs.

  59. This was carefully shaped into a spindle at the larger end and set in the recently drilled hole of the shaft, using glue or resin for this purpose.

  60. With a small amount of glue in the tip one has only to moisten his fingers in his mouth and the leather stall will stick on firmly.

  61. The space between the rib and the wood he sometimes smeared with more glue to cause the feather to adhere to the shaft, but this was not the usual custom with him.

  62. When dry, these leather stalls should be numbered according to the finger to which they belong, coated lightly with thin glue on the inside and waxed on the outer surface.

  63. Several coats of varnish will keep the glue from being affected by moisture or rain.

  64. After the glue has set, take a coarse file and shape the horn nock to the classical shape, which is hard to describe but easy to illustrate.

  65. With a stick, run a little liquid glue along the rib of each and lay it aside.

  66. This entire portion he usually smeared with thin glue or sizing.

  67. When dry, clean your shaft from ragged excess of glue with knife and sandpaper, and finish up by running a little diluted glue with a small brush along the side of the feather ribs to make them doubly secure.

  68. First he made a glue by boiling salmon skin and applying it to the roughened back of the bow.

  69. Some have used clamps, some use pins, some lash the feathers on at the extremities with thread, and then glue beneath them.

  70. I also glue a small piece of leather on the left-hand side of the bow above the handle to prevent the arrow chafing the wood at this spot.

  71. Along the axis of your arrow run three parallel lines of glue down the shaftment.

  72. Perhaps I pitched it a bit strong about that glue patch.

  73. This is a vein of glue in the section which "A" will go to-morrow night.

  74. The glue vein probably had a bottom in bygone days, but now I fancy the Hun has knocked the bottom out of it.

  75. The glue with which the old carpet had been secured to the floor must have been the strongest in the world.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accumulate; adherent; adhesive; albumen; amass; anchor; apply; articulate; assemble; associate; attach; band; barnacle; batter; bind; bond; bracket; bramble; briar; bridge; brier; bulldog; burr; butter; cement; chain; clabber; collect; combine; comprise; conjugate; connect; copulate; couple; cover; cream; curd; dough; embrace; encompass; fuse; gather; gelatin; glue; gluten; gruel; gum; gumbo; include; jam; jell; jelly; join; knot; league; leech; limpet; link; marry; marshal; mass; merge; mobilize; molasses; mucilage; mucus; nail; pair; pap; paste; plaster; porridge; prickle; pudding; pulp; puree; size; solder; soup; span; splice; starch; stick; sticker; syrup; tack; tape; thorn; tie; treacle; unify; unite; weld; yoke