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Example sentences for "groove"

Lexicographically close words:
groomed; grooming; grooms; groomsman; groomsmen; grooved; grooves; grooving; grope; groped
  1. Particles of mud and of animal and vegetable matter are drawn by the currents produced in swimming, into the ventral groove between the pairs of feet, and are passed forwards to the mouth to serve as food.

  2. There is a groove for a glass covering, and the cord by which it was suspended still remains.

  3. Such a receptacle may perhaps be recognised in the long terracotta vessel, which has a groove in the middle for a brush (No.

  4. He persisted in keeping the conversation in a groove for which I had a strong distaste.

  5. It showed in what sort of groove my mind had been working.

  6. By using a tenon on the rails in which one shoulder is as much longer than the other as the rebate is deep there is no resulting groove showing at the corner.

  7. Lay out and cut the mortises in the side pieces, also the groove for the shelf, having first squared the shelf to size.

  8. Groove the inside of the drawer front 3/16 in.

  9. It is a good plan not to groove the panel upon which the figures are placed, and which becomes the face of the clock.

  10. Remember that the cañon is a groove chiselled out of rock by a river.

  11. Now increase the dimensions until the groove is two hundred and fifty feet in breadth by five thousand feet in depth, and the speck a boat with three voyagers.

  12. Imagine a groove a foot broad and twenty feet deep, with a runnel of water trickling at the bottom of it and a fleck of dust floating down the rivulet.

  13. The groove was everywhere about twenty feet high, while its breadth varied from a yard or so to nearly a rod.

  14. Something like half of the strata with which earth is sheathed has been cut through by the Colorado, beginning at the top of the groove with hundreds of feet of limestone, and closing at the bottom with a thousand feet of granite.

  15. His duties extend far beyond the set, formal lines--the easy groove of old times--and are concerned with matters which were once thought the exclusive domain of the statesman or the philosopher.

  16. Yet to-day, as the two leaned over the little gate in the plantation and looked down upon the reapers, the deep groove which continual thought causes was all too visible on Cecil's forehead.

  17. The grain is oblong truncate at both ends, reddish brown, with a prominent groove on the dorsal side; embryo occupying nearly half the length of the grain.

  18. If round pipes are used, a round bottoming tool must be used to form a semi-circular groove in which the pipes are to lie.

  19. It was still the same groove and well oiled.

  20. But a careful study of the rocks on my left showed a sort of slanting groove or gallery running across their face, of which it might be possible to take advantage.

  21. The descent to Riva is henceforth a mere groove blasted out of a smooth perpendicular cliff.

  22. Third leg of Limulus polyphemus, showing the division of the fourth segment of the leg by a groove S into two, thus giving seven segments to the leg as in scorpion.

  23. Sometimes the bottom of the groove shows ecchymoses.

  24. Neyding[845] says that suggillation in the groove is oftener found in strangulation than hanging.

  25. Liman[747] states that when we find suggillation in the groove or its vicinity, we may know that some other form of violence has been applied at the same time as that of the ligature or hand.

  26. As a rule this depression is not deep; the skin at the bottom of the groove is usually very pale, while the adjacent parts are red or livid.

  27. Neyding[746] says that suggillations in the groove made by the ligature on the neck are rare, but are oftener found in strangulation than hanging, because the conditions favoring their formation are oftener found in strangulation.

  28. In most cases the skin and connective tissue of the groove and of the parts in the vicinity show, microscopically, hyperæmias and hemorrhages.

  29. The front of the neck showed a groove above the larynx, firm and of gray color; ecchymosis in subcutaneous tissue.

  30. The ratchet arm moves up and down in a spiral groove, the groove being in a shield attached by screws to the cylinder; on the ratchet-band there is a pall and two springs, one under the other.

  31. The piston having a spiral groove is turned by this ratchet as it moves down.

  32. The drill-bar is rotated by means of a ratchet operated by a spiral groove in the shield of the machine.

  33. This author states that another specimen, obtained at Old Enterprise, shows clearly that it was detached from the shell by first cutting a groove and then breaking off the fragment.

  34. It bears evidence of considerable use, and the two holes are much worn by a string or cord, which, passing from one hole to the other on the concave side of the plate, gradually worked a deep groove between them.

  35. Sometimes the spiral groove was so nearly, or even wholly, obliterated in the process of grinding the columella into shape as to make it necessary to enlarge or even recut the groove in order to make a place for the much-loved asphaltum.

  36. They are somewhat cylindrical, and often retain the spiral groove as well as other portions of the natural surface.

  37. The groove of the canal shows distinctly in all the heads, and may often be traced far down the shaft.

  38. A deep, sharply cut groove encircles the beak and hinge of the shell, and the posterior margins are considerably worn.

  39. The small portion of the spiral groove which remains indicates that it is derived from a Busycon perversum.

  40. It has been suspended by means of a shallow groove near the upper end.

  41. It is a flattish, somewhat pear-shaped pendant, and has a neatly cut groove near the upper end.

  42. It has a broad groove near the upper end, with a long, sloping shoulder, the body being somewhat conical below.

  43. The position of the groove suggests the method of hafting shown in Fig.

  44. In order to make this pendant still more attractive, the spiral groove is filled with asphaltum, or a mixture of that material and a red pigment.

  45. The mouth is represented by an oval node, in which a horizontal groove has been made.

  46. Lowering the surface of the hindmost apple would merely throw out the balance of masses without giving a satisfactory explanation of its position, while to cut a deep groove between the two would be an equally unsightly expedient.

  47. If this has to be done, the tool should be passed finally over the whole groove to remove the superfluous tool marks--a sideway gliding motion of the edge, combined with its forward motion, often succeeds in this operation.

  48. Generally speaking, enter the groove at its widest end and leave it at the narrowest, lowering the handle of the tool gradually as you go along to lift the gouge out of the wood, producing the drawing of the forms at the same time.

  49. So Strongarm showed her how to make a groove in the log where the wood meal could collect.

  50. Round the ends of the spindle and make a shallow hole with a groove beside it in the hearth.

  51. Adjoining is another groove but terminating at bottom in two lesser grooves of four inches and a half in width, connected a little way up with the large groove.

  52. The groove ceased to avail me, and I mistrusted myself.

  53. Not knowing what to trust, I did not know what to do; and so had only to keep on working in what had hitherto been the groove of my life.

  54. With a round point or gouging chisel work out the groove to the size of the bar, forming a seat, by sinking the bar, H, one-half its depth into the wood as shown.

  55. In this base cut a groove to fit the tube and the space to be occupied by the bottle is hollowed out with a chisel to a depth of 3/4 in.

  56. Before assembling the case cut on the inner surface of the pieces forming the sides and the lower end, a groove just wide enough to take the glass and 1/16 in.

  57. The tin is bent and fastened on the wood at the back end of the groove where the cord slips out of the notch; this is to keep the edges from splitting.

  58. If no outfit is at hand a very satisfactory way is to take a knife and cut a very small V-shaped groove around the design and border so as to keep the colors from "running.

  59. Connect a wire from the other brush stud, run it through a small hole in the base and cut a groove for it on the under side so that it can be connected through the switch and the other terminal.

  60. This is done by cutting a groove in the shaft and a corresponding groove in the wheel and fitting in a piece of metal in order to secure the wheel from turning independently of the shaft.

  61. The outer edge of this groove should be 3/8 in.

  62. For the handle, take two pieces of hard wood, dressing one surface of each piece, and cut a groove as wide and thick as the saw blade.

  63. The cork is put into the groove and both pieces are pressed together, which will make the cork smaller.

  64. A groove is cut for the arrows in the top straight edge 3/8 in.

  65. After the glue has dried, the blade can be pulled out of the groove and the wood shaped to any desired form.

  66. A groove is made in the tin to keep the trolley wire in place.

  67. After completing the [Illustration: Details of Handle] handle, the blade is put back into the groove and sharpened to a cutting edge.

  68. Place the blade in the groove and glue the two dressed sides of the wood together.

  69. This plate must be a gauge to file your worm and groove to equal breadth by.

  70. The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.

  71. A similar channel or groove made in wood or other material, esp.

  72. To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.

  73. The act of forming a groove or grooves; a groove, or collection of grooves.

  74. To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow.

  75. The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.

  76. A special groove or furrow at one or both angles of the mouth of many Anthozoa.

  77. This groove is connected with the hyomandibular cleft, but I have not determined whether it is now perforated.

  78. There is formed however in each of them a semicircular groove (fig.

  79. A, and it may be seen that the ridge on the inner side of the groove forms the edge of the frontonasal process (k).

  80. On the conversion of this groove into a canal the canal freely opens behind into the blastopore; and a condition is reached in which the blastopore still opens to the exterior and also into the neural canal fig.

  81. The first traces of it become apparent while the medullary groove is still extremely shallow.

  82. In the relation of the medullary canal to the blastopore, as well as in the closure of the medullary groove from behind forwards, the Solitary Ascidians agree closely with Amphioxus.

  83. The medullary groove is still open for its whole length, but in the head it exhibits a series of well-marked dilatations.

  84. Above the primitive groove is seen the medullary groove m.

  85. A somewhat older blastoderm in which the medullary groove has been established.

  86. Behind its opening the medullary canal is continued back as a small diverticulum, which follows the course of the primitive groove and is apparently formed by the conversion of this groove into a canal.

  87. C), and the medullary folds unite dorsally and convert the posterior end of the medullary groove into a closed canal, while the groove is still widely open elsewhere.

  88. We notice a groove down the centre of each ray.

  89. In time this resting-place becomes hollowed out, and the Limpet's shell fits into the groove thus made.

  90. It is done by cutting a groove in the surface of one metal and hammering the other metal into this groove.

  91. The little groove which you see in the jaw is put there with a fuller.

  92. On the same end of the block, file (using round file) a groove right across the corner, about 1/8 in.

  93. Illustration: Shaping tube before drawing in plate] Place the strip of copper or silver over the groove and, using the hammer, drive the metal into the groove, forming a gutter.

  94. The edge of this tool makes the groove to fit the nail heads.

  95. Illustration: Filing half round groove in hinge, for tube] To make the wings of the hinge: Take a piece of silver or copper, No.

  96. With a round file, file a groove across the block.

  97. The copper sinks into the groove and the two sides lap up on each side of the pin.

  98. Illustration: Bind in place with binding wire, and solder] Take two of the three short tube pieces, bind them on the groove ends of one wing.

  99. Bind the third piece of tubing in the middle of the groove end of the other wing.

  100. Place this copper plate in the vise, file a groove through the centre, just large enough for the copper or silver tube to fit in about half its depth.

  101. The point is so small it will slip and cut a groove around the shaft.

  102. A rope belt power conveyor runs in this groove and carries power from the bull pen to the pump.


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