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Example sentences for "hooped"

Lexicographically close words:
hooly; hoom; hoong; hoop; hoope; hoopes; hooping; hoopoe; hoopoes; hoops
  1. The inner boom was hooped together with steel bands, and then the outer layer of pine staves was fitted on and hooped with brass rings.

  2. Groups of sailors, with tanned faces and punctured ears hooped with gold rings, sat on the broad stone parapets, talking unintelligible Breton patois.

  3. He then determined to take a step further, and send to the kite some of the articles which lay in the steel-hooped chest.

  4. In its usual place on the strong table stood the great steel-hooped chest without lock or key.

  5. Furthermore, a properly hooped column does not enter into this discussion, as the proposition is that slender longitudinal rods do not reinforce a concrete column; if hoops are recognized, the column does not come under this proposition.

  6. This excessive deformation is a strong argument against the use of high working stresses in hooped columns.

  7. The strength of a hooped column, disregarding for the time the longitudinal steel, is dependent on the fact that thin discs of concrete are capable of carrying much more load than shafts or cubes.

  8. Hooped columns are a patented construction which no one has the right to use without license or instructions from M.

  9. To quote from one of these works: "The compressive resistance of a hooped member exceeds the sum of the following three elements: (1) The compressive resistance of the concrete without reinforcement.

  10. In the averages of the Minneapolis tests Mr. Thompson has compared the results on two plain concrete columns with the average of tests on an indiscriminate lot of hooped and banded columns.

  11. A properly hooped column was not mentioned, except by inference, in the quotation given in the foregoing sentence.

  12. If Mr. Turner had read the paper carefully, he would not have had the idea that in it the hooped column is condemned.

  13. The wire bands on these columns could not be considered even by the advocates of hooped columns as appreciably adding to the strength, because they were square instead of circular.

  14. About the middle of the reign the sacque became the general town fashion, the sacque being so named on account of the back, which fell from the shoulders into wide, loose folds over the hooped petticoat.

  15. The poorer classes were not, of course, dressed in hooped skirts, but the bodice and gown over the petticoat, the apron, and the turned back cuff to the short sleeve were worn by all.

  16. The puffed sleeves of the men, the women's stiff ruffs, and the fantastic shapes of their hooped skirts, are still to be seen in stage presentations of plays of the time.

  17. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.

  18. She is represented in the costume of the Elizabethan era, with the large hooped petticoats, ruff, &c.

  19. An old farmer’s wife an hooped petticoat wore, ’Twas as wide as an haystack behind and before, The wind caught the bottom as you may suppose, Then up in the clouds in a moment she goes.

  20. The lasses that wander the streets in the dark, Swear they cannot get custom unless they’re smart, If their skin is as black as a Welch Billy Goat, They must have a wonderful hooped petticoat.

  21. Popped into a place, just for shelter they took, The whole regiment stood under her hooped petticoat!

  22. When I’m married, my husband upon me will doat, Looking so fine in a hooped petticoat.

  23. The ladies hooped petticoats dragging around, Just cover a mile and three-quarters of ground.

  24. There was an old lady went down through the Strand, She was linked in the arms of a dashing young man, Her hooped petticoat caught a coal-heaver’s clothes.

  25. She got up one morning, so buxom and fine, She quickly went folding her new crinoline, She holloaed and swore such a terrible oath, For the old cow had calved in her hooped petticoat.

  26. If a girl with a crinoline you chance for to meet, Take care as you ramble along in a group, Or, you may get caught in a hooped petticoat.

  27. They say that the queen has a crinoline on, And so has Prince Albert and buxom Lord John, We expect to see Palmerston next week afloat, Strutting up round May Fair in a hooped petticoat.

  28. He then applied himself to the nine-hooped pot, and taking a long deep draught, appeared exceedingly relieved.

  29. Jack Cade's popular reformations was to increase their number: "the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.

  30. When hooped reinforcement is used, the column section is always circular or polygonal.

  31. An example of more elaborate methods is had in the following description of the processes employed in fabricating girder frames and hooped column reinforcement for a large factory building.

  32. Heretofore, too, they were hooped together by a common enemy.

  33. I dragged him into an empty pipe, put the head in, hooped it up, and rolling it into the tier, filled it with wine.

  34. We went down into the hold, started the wine out of one of the pipes, and having taken out the head, I crawled in, and was hooped up.

  35. This was squeezed by four men, and the contents received into a large pail, composed of the bones of a whale, neatly hooped together by the same substance.

  36. The politics of Europe render it indispensably necessary that, with respect to everything external, we be one nation only, firmly hooped together.

  37. Why, if I could believe that in thirty years from now the English domination would be broken and the French monarch's head find itself hooped with a real crown of sovereignty—" "Both will have happened before two years are sped.

  38. A barrel, properly hooped and headed, is almost indestructible, and much stronger than a box, altho the hoops are small.

  39. These commonplace tankards of staves were not so rare as the beautiful carved and hooped tankard which is here pictured, and which is in the collection of Mrs. Samuel Bowne Duryea, of Brooklyn.

  40. It is a view of the Old South Church, Boston; and with its hooped dames and coach and footman, has a certain value as indicating the costume of the times.

  41. In order to bring all parts of a great mass of metal into simultaneous tension, Blakely and others have hooped an inner tube with rings having a successively higher initial tension.

  42. The hooped petticoat or vardingale, however, appears only in the later portraits of Elizabeth.

  43. The representations here given illustrate the large and massive Egyptian signet-ring, and also a lighter kind of hooped signet, 'as generally worn at a somewhat more recent period in Egypt.

  44. In some of them, indeed, they arm each pestle with an iron tooth, consisting of nine spikes hooped together, which I do not remember in the description of Mr. Rutledge.

  45. On these rivers they use a short oar of twelve feet long, the flat end of which is hooped with iron, shooting out a prong at each corner, so that it may be used occasionally as a setting-pole.


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