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Example sentences for "helio"

Lexicographically close words:
helical; helices; helicoidal; helicopter; helicopters; heliocentric; heliograph; heliographed; heliographic; heliographing
  1. When you put Captain Robers and his men off this ship they smuggled out with them a hand-operated helio set.

  2. I had not gone far before I met one of the burghers, who told me Steyn and De Wet had gone up to the helio post a little while before.

  3. I at once fixed my instrument, and soon learnt that it was a British helio post.

  4. Over seventy miles of veld the gleam of the helio by day and the flash of the signal lamps at night marked the steady flow of the British tide.

  5. Till the very climax the helio still cried that they were being overpowered, and it is said that even while working it the soldier in charge was hurled over the cliff by the onrush of the victorious Boers.

  6. The flashes of his helio were answered by flash after flash from many points upon the southern horizon.

  7. The Boers were said to be massing in the East of the Colony, and moving towards the line; and a sharp look-out was kept from the top of Hardewater Hill, on which the helio had some busy days.

  8. With notification to the Earth and Mars that they demanded recognition, they were sending the usual routine helio dispatches and reports, quite as though nothing had occurred.

  9. I wondered what the Martian helio might be saying.

  10. The helio station in the Great City was now reinstated.

  11. Grantline and I left the turret, heading along the catwalk under the glassite dome toward the helio cubby where the rotund, middle-aged Waters was in charge.

  12. Waters and I have been in the helio room for the past hour, searching with the 'scope there.

  13. I saw him forcibly dragging the bald-headed Waters from the helio cubby.

  14. From the little circular helio cubby, perched here under the dome like an eagle's nest, I could see down all the length of the ship, and out the side ports of the dome to the blazing firmament.

  15. It made my heart sink to think of the helio room.

  16. I could see them now plainly from the helio cubby windows, great shafts of radiance sweeping the firmament.

  17. In the helio cubby, Waters was still trying to raise an Earth station.

  18. We'll go to the helio room," I told Grantline.

  19. My Benson-beam shot into the helio window.

  20. And Snap's helio mirrors, attuned for an hour now to pick up the faintest signal, were motionless.

  21. He was radio-helio operator of the Planetara.

  22. Attack renewed; enemy reinforced,” winked the helio from the top of Convent Hill, and again a dumb despair fell on the watchers.

  23. Then came a helio message from Sir George White to General Clery: “Attacked on every side.

  24. The message that the helio twinkled out was as follows: "Thirty large vessels, apparently transports, approaching from direction of Cherbourg and Brest about ten miles south-east by south.

  25. He had scarcely uttered the last word when a helio began to twinkle from the hill above Foreland.

  26. The helio mirrors were swaying again with another message from Grantline.

  27. The crew of the Planetara, secretly in his pay, rose up and killed the captain and all the officers but Snap Dean, the radio-helio operator, and myself.

  28. They crowded the instrument room where the tense duty man sat bending over his helio receivers.

  29. The helio was slanting downward, and was now less than five miles distant from the fast vanishing bus.

  30. The borderlands of Canada sped beneath them, and then there was pine forest, but the helio kept the fleeing bus in sight even as the shadows of a dying day crept inexorably from the east to engulf them.

  31. He gave orders quickly to the chauffeur, and then the helio was hovering inches above the tree tops, and he tossed a plastiweave ladder over the side.

  32. Mason and Judith waited outside the towering New United Nations building in Greater San Francisco, their chauffeured government helio parked on a sky-ramp adjacent to the three hundredth floor.

  33. They were nearing Denver, and air traffic at their level had picked up, and the helio was proceeding more slowly so that Kriijorl's demonstration caused him to miss little of the tour.

  34. On Mason's order the government chauffeur swiftly heeled the helio about.

  35. He climbed into the helio with a smiled greeting, seated himself to Judith's right as he knew Earth custom demanded, and the craft was lifting slowly over the central area of the ancient city before Mason spoke.

  36. Headquarter signalling station close by, whose own helio was now clicking violently in answer.

  37. At last, after three fruitless attempts, the helio flashed back to the general that the position was impregnable, and that further attempts would be but a useless waste of life.

  38. Next day a helio from Bank directed the column to make its way to that station, a party of the South Wales Borderers being left behind to watch the pass at Modderfontein, where they were to have a rough experience later on.

  39. This Hal did, and it was all news to the lieutenant, for neither he nor any member of his hunting party had seen the helio signals.

  40. While coming along this afternoon we saw something like helio signals flashing in the air.

  41. He was finally trapped; no longer could he afford a pilot for the long flight from Helio to a newer frontier, and he could not risk the trip alone.

  42. He had had four such warnings on this satellite, and three times he had gone to Pastiville on Helio and been cared for and come away with less money than he had gone with.

  43. The three legs of the helio disappearing over the balcony was the first sight I saw one early morning, and the signallers came down with white faces.

  44. We have helio now, and some sort of understanding for emergency signalling by lights.

  45. The shell had smashed the helio without touching them.

  46. And the helio set was banked on a low table near the floor.

  47. A group of hand lights and small waving helio beam.

  48. Not a Martian set, but a fully powerful Botz ultra-violet helio sender with its attendant receiving mirrors.

  49. Only Snap Dean, the radio-helio operator, Venza, a girl of Venus, and I were left.

  50. The helio twinkled out another message from the general: "Good water at Rietvlei, four miles on.

  51. Almost at the same moment the helio from the summit of Minie Kloof called us up.


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