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Example sentences for "grooved"

Lexicographically close words:
grooming; grooms; groomsman; groomsmen; groove; grooves; grooving; grope; groped; groper
  1. It has next to be drawn out to the requisite length and tapered, which is done by passing it through a series of mills, each succeeding one being grooved smaller than the preceding.

  2. When a short arc of the ring had been raised, the grooved piece was swung around about 1 inch and the groove continued.

  3. These cross pieces are grooved on their inner edges, and into this groove is slipped the reed, which is a frame divided into sections by short, stiff wires, making from 10 to 25 or more sections to the inch.

  4. The surface as a whole, furrowed as it is below the cirques, may be described as a grooved upland (plate 19 A).

  5. The grooved upland with its cirques, or the fretted upland with its cirques, cols, horns, and comb ridges.

  6. Some weigh from thirty to forty pounds and have two grooves; others again are not grooved at all.

  7. None of the unmounted heads, which are all of pectolite, are grooved in this way to receive the haft, but No.

  8. It is grooved round the edge for fastening on a hood.

  9. It is grooved around the edge for fastening on a hood and is 6.

  10. Illustration] A grooved strip of wood should be fitted to the edge of the saw, in order to preserve the teeth and keep the blade straight.

  11. The end of the spring is fitted with a long strip of hide or a rope, which, passing once round the grooved slice of log, is attached to the end of the treadle.

  12. A), turned straight, the actual line of top and base being slightly grooved in the plaster.

  13. A grooved and toothed plaster tool of steel.

  14. The cable may run on a level--as when it spans some great gorge between two mountain peaks--or it may be strung up to any incline not too great to make precarious the grip of the grooved overhead wheels of the basket.

  15. These structures are grooved along their inner faces and by means of a series of interlocking hair-like bristles can be joined together so as to form a tubular sucker (fig.

  16. C, Part transverse section showing how the channel (A) of the proboscis is formed by the interlocking of the grooved inner faces of the flexible maxillae.

  17. The pulleys or grooved wheels on which the carriage runs, perform 0.

  18. To the bobbin another two-grooved pulley or whorl q is made fast by means of a pin r, which passes through it; by removing this pin, the bobbin can be instantly taken off the spindle.

  19. The copper is left a little longer than its coating tube, and is grooved at the extremities of the latter, so that the silver edges, being worked into the copper groove, may exclude the air from the surface of the rod.

  20. It is suspended in it by a piece of cork, grooved on the four sides to afford passage to the liquid.

  21. A, is a strong upright iron pillar, supported upon the great horizontal beam N, N, and bearing at its upper end the three-grooved laying top M.

  22. The carriage is then raised by a crane to a level with the furnace, and entered upon the grooved bars which lie upon the hearth.

  23. Instead of the cylinders, some employ a crushing mill of a conical-grooved form like a coffee mill, upon a large scale.

  24. The sprocket-wheel drum shaft is geared to an auxiliary shaft which carries a grooved pulley.

  25. Power is conveyed to the churn by means of a grooved pulley on the top of the shaft.

  26. The mechanism turns a grooved pulley which propels a rope power conveyor.

  27. It is guided by a rope belt which runs on grooved pulleys at the top and bottom.

  28. This fact we know from the presence of grooved and polished rocks wherever the surface has not been worn away or covered with newer lava.

  29. This glacier was over three thousand feet in thickness, for the rocks are grooved and polished to a height of nearly two thousand feet above the surface of the water.

  30. In other cases I have used expanding forceps with grooved blades.

  31. Hollow metallic bodies presenting an opening toward the observer may be removed with a grooved expansile forceps as shown in Figs 23 and 25, or its edge may be grasped by the regular side-grasping forceps.

  32. In some places it glided quietly and swiftly over a sloping floor of solid stone, polished and grooved in some past age by glaciers.

  33. The bare limestone of the summit is grooved in great channels pointing straight up the Bow valley.

  34. To make the pusher mechanism complete put a grooved pulley 1½ inches in diameter on the end of the spindle up close to the collar and screw it fast.

  35. File a grooved ring around the piston to hold in the oil and slip the piston in the open end of the pipe.

  36. Mandibles and first maxillae modified as piercers; second maxillae fused to form a jointed, grooved rostrum.

  37. Mandibles absent in imago, very exceptionally present in pupa; first maxillae nearly always without laciniae and often without palps, or only with vestigial palps, their galeae elongated and grooved inwardly so as to form a sucking trunk.

  38. In butterflies and moths the lacinia is absent while the galea becomes a flexible process, grooved on its inner face, so as to make with its fellow a hollow sucking-trunk, and the palp is usually very small.

  39. In bugs and aphids (Hemiptera), the fused second maxillae form a jointed grooved beak or rostrum (fig.

  40. Here, half buried in the wet sand at the edge of the gentle surf, is a living one, and we can see the grooved trail behind him showing where he has traveled.

  41. But in general only the nail of the finger can be insinuated into it; and this is a better and safer conductor for the knife than a grooved director.

  42. Motion is prevented, and the parts are retained in their proper situation, by a wedge of cork or wood interposed on each side of the jaw, and grooved so as to receive the teeth both above and below.

  43. Relating to a system for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.

  44. A suborder of serpents including those that have permanently erect grooved poison fangs, with ordinary teeth behind them in the jaws.

  45. The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red.

  46. Anything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal.

  47. A tool for forming an internal screw, as in a nut, consisting of a hardened steel male screw grooved longitudinally so as to have cutting edges.

  48. A ring of thin metal formed with a grooved circumference so as to fit within an eye-spice, or the like, and protect it from chafing.

  49. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.

  50. A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.

  51. A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.

  52. A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grooved" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    corduroy; corrugated; cut; enchased; engraved; fluted; furrowed; graven; grooved; impressed; imprinted; incised; inscribed; marked; pleated; printed; ribbed; rutty; scored; scratched; sculptured; slit; stamped; striated; tooled; wrinkled