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Example sentences for "guage"

Lexicographically close words:
grunts; grup; grupo; grym; grype; guaiac; guaiacol; guaiacum; guana; guanaco
  1. It is sad to think, however, that after being killed by some of our most prominent men, I should at last yield up the ghost in a lonely canon, at the urgent solicitation of a narrow-guage mule.

  2. Italye / as in tymes past / Englande hathe had many kynges / though the lan- guage & people were on.

  3. He looked at Nancy closely to guage the amount of her courage.

  4. The first train that passed over the new narrow guage road that runs through Colorado, carried a load of foreign emigrants to Utah.

  5. In forming the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, the guage of the railways in the collieries was adopted, and the width between the rails was made 4 feet 81/2 inches.

  6. On some railways, to avoid this inconvenience, narrow and broad guage rails have been laid down on the same line.

  7. As branches from the Great Western Railway spread into the districts where the narrow guage railways had been laid down, much inconvenience has arisen from the break of guage, as it occasions the necessity for a change of carriages.

  8. The minimum speed on the narrow guage was to be fifteen miles an hour, and it was estimated that the average receipts would work out at 5 pounds per mile.

  9. One morning they found that their rain-guage had been removed, so they sent Kidjwiga to say that they wished a magician to come at once and institute a search for it.

  10. He kept the rain-guage and sketched with water colours, for it was found that photography was too severe work for the climate.

  11. But "the guage and measure of the man" were known to a comparatively small circle till his splendid oratorical displays in defense of the principles and objects of the Catholic Association made his fame coextensive with the empire.

  12. Out of the purest love for the nations, they pretended this was done, and as a guage of amity to the world all round.

  13. With that view, I dedicate to you this little book; in the hope, that some who understand the dead lan-guage of Despotism, may be induced to translate it into the living tongues of the good people of the Continent.

  14. The price of stocks never makes a false report, as to the political aspects of society, but is as infallible a guage in this particular, as is the thermometer of the weather; and the wise statesman understands it.

  15. It only happens that the guage of one is always visible, and that of the others invisible, until they come into market.


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