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Example sentences for "grading"

Lexicographically close words:
grades; gradibus; gradient; gradients; gradines; grados; grads; gradu; gradual; gradually
  1. Accordingly I set to work with a wheelbarrow, grading the bank around the almost completed building.

  2. The foreman replied: "Yes, there is some grading to be done.

  3. And as he held the boy, the operation of flogging him in the presence of the grading gang grew less to his taste.

  4. A similar flat-grading is proposed for work requiring skill and experience.

  5. Belgian colliery a conveyor of this type fitted with grading sieves feeds seven trucks standing in a row, but each on a different siding, and each taking coal of a different size.

  6. This apparatus also lends itself to the grading of coal.

  7. He has since been continuously engaged in superintending the construction of railroads in ten states of the Union, and in 1858 supervised the grading of the St. Paul & Pacific, the first railroad enterprise in Minnesota.

  8. While all three knew that the object of the visit to the graveyard was to prevent, if possible, the entry into the lot of the workmen who were expected that morning to begin the grading of the railroad, not one of them mentioned it.

  9. Are you the contractor having in charge the grading of this section of the Delaware Valley and Eastern Railroad?

  10. There is no instinctive habit of sorting out facts upon a scale of worth and of grading them.

  11. This absence of the collar is quite likely caused by its inter-grading with the Hutchins goose.

  12. Tail, olive, grading into orange on the lower part.

  13. Bluish brown on the back, grading into white on the belly.

  14. The following sets of rules are in general use: Eastern Grading Rules for Comb Honey.

  15. Grading rules have been adopted by various bee keepers' associations or drawn up by honey dealers.

  16. The trail was exceedingly bad, as they were newly grading it, and in some places I had to get over mounds of loose earth about four feet or more high.

  17. The greatest difficulty, here as elsewhere, was the grading of hymns and prayers.

  18. There were only sixteen children at Kenaston, their ages ranging from two to seventeen, so that the grading of lessons and devotions was difficult.

  19. It was perched high above the sidewalk, for the street but a few years since was a gully, and the grading had deepened it.

  20. The type is locally termed "white land," and is closely related to the Penn loam and the Iredell clay loam, these types surrounding and grading gradually into it.

  21. Occasionally the subsoil is a clay loam for several inches before grading into the unweathered mica particles.

  22. The epidote occurs in the form of lenses arranged parallel to the planes of schistosity, reaching as high as five feet in thickness and grading from that down to the size of minute grains.

  23. On the eastern side of Wills creek the grading is finished to the site of the bridge; on the western side I have directed no work to be executed that can have any bearing upon this point.

  24. The masonry of the culverts and some of the bridges must be finished in time, including the filling to make good the roadway, to permit the contractor for grading to comply with his agreement.

  25. No state seems yet to have regulated by law the grading of peaches, as several have done with the apple.

  26. Grading peaches is still a matter of local or personal practice in New York as it is the country over.

  27. The need is quite as great for such laws for one fruit as for the other, and no doubt grading peaches in New York will soon be regulated by the strong arm of the law as is grading apples.

  28. Besides the warehouse separator, which is made in different types and sizes, grading and sorting cylinders, and what are known as cockle and barley cylinders, are much used in the screen house.

  29. However, a symmetrical grading off from the centre is not the same thing as a symmetrical grading off from the centre in a predetermined mode, i.

  30. Anthropometric characteristics in relation to the grading of children in schools").

  31. The best way of grading the emery is by washing it with clean water, and allowing the emery (at first stirred up with the water) to settle out.

  32. The method of grading emery will be described in the chapter on glass-grinding.

  33. For grading and preparing the road for construction, dressing up sides, clearing out side ditches, etc.

  34. When the road passes through villages and towns the grading should reduce the roadbed to a grade as nearly level as possible.

  35. A fairly common material for both hupfs and ahsts is highly vesicular basalt grading into pumice stone, the material corresponding fairly with a favorite metate material among the Mexicans.

  36. No major grading or topographic change shall be accomplished except by express permission, in writing, from the Director of County Development of Fairfax County, or the successor to his duties.

  37. Major grading shall be deemed to mean any grading performed by machine, other than hand-operated machines.

  38. Such permission shall only be granted by reference to a grading plan prepared by or at the direction of the grantor or his successor in interest.

  39. Such permission shall only be granted in accordance with a grading plan prepared by or at the direction of the grantor or his successor in interest and approved by Fairfax County.

  40. To the north there is the smaller-toothed meridana and to the south the smaller-toothed macrura grading into the still smaller-toothed agilis, and boliviensis.

  41. These males, the only specimens of that sex of which external measurements are available, probably are grading toward nevadensis and therefore are nontypical.


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