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Example sentences for "ingress"

Lexicographically close words:
ingratus; ingrauen; ingredi; ingredient; ingredients; ingressus; ingrowing; ingrowth; ingrowths; ings
  1. The doorway was low and arched, the stone work about it coarse and massive, the door had fallen from the upper hinge, and lay so far open that ingress was very easy.

  2. Their fronts are adorned with great groups of statuary, wreaths, decorations, and allegorical figures, beautifully cut, and through their vast gateways ingress is had from the street.

  3. The same process has to be adopted for the egress of the workmen, and the reverse arrangement for the ingress of men and 121 materials.

  4. How, then, had the THING, whatever it was, which had so scared him, obtained ingress except though my own chamber?

  5. Port Arthur, where the bulk of the Russian Pacific squadron lay, is somewhat difficult of ingress and egress.

  6. Thus, whereas a man was granted ingress or egress if he carried a passport signed by his own feudal chief and addressed to the guards at the barrier, a woman might not pass unless she was provided with an order signed by a Bakufu official.

  7. A Japanese superstition regarded the northeast as the "Demon's Gate," where a barrier must be erected against the ingress of evil influences.

  8. This sound Leah heard faintly, as it sought ingress at her windows, and down the half-closed chimney.

  9. Powder, explosives and working tools shall not be taken down or up a hoisting shaft in a cage when men are going down or up; nor shall they be taken down or up a stairway used for ingress and egress of persons.

  10. Stables constructed underground after the passage and approval of this act, shall be located not nearer than one hundred and fifty feet of any opening to the mine used as a means of ingress or egress.

  11. When there is but one shaft available for ingress and egress from any unavoidable cause, the appliances therein shall be kept available to persons therein employed at all times.

  12. The form of the tube—the calibre gradually increasing from below towards the orifice—completely prevents any farther ingress of blood, by the uniform compression which it makes on the edges of the wound.

  13. To prevent the ingress of rain the chamber is raised somewhat higher than the mouth of the hole.

  14. Do you know where the ingress from the street to the subbasement is?

  15. In one of these massive gates was a smaller door, which served for ingress and egress to Samuel the Jew, the guardian of this dreary abode.

  16. He insinuated himself at last into their confidence, and obtained free ingress to his friend as often as he pleased; pretending that he was using his utmost endeavours to conquer his obstinacy and worm his secret out of him.

  17. Their general mode of ingress was by the keyhole, and of egress by the chimney, up which they flew, broom and all, with the greatest ease.

  18. An old proprietor of one of the slaughter-houses had a certain space of ground entirely surrounded by walls, with holes only large enough for the ingress and egress of rats.

  19. The piece is wrought to and through, and then removed; if necessary, another piece is 'starred' to allow of the free ingress of the hand.

  20. One side of the place thus marked out runs parallel with the water's edge, and is left open for ingress or egress.

  21. To add to my troubles, the brig was pitching and rolling with great violence, and the oil-casks which lay upon my box were in momentary danger of falling down, so as to block up the only way of ingress or egress.

  22. Palmer and Haskell, so I felt that, while Fremont might be suspicious of others, he allowed free ingress to his old California acquaintances.

  23. When the latter had gained possession of Chattanooga he was directed not to move on Rome as he proposed, but simply to hold the mountain-passes, so as to prevent the ingress of the rebels into East Tennessee.

  24. It is a strange sight to witness the ingress and egress of these hordes of females; and probably the world cannot elsewhere exhibit so large a number of ugly women.

  25. The only thing that can be affirmed is, that during the period of more than two hundred and fifty years which have elapsed since the conquest, the ingress of specie into the Philippine Islands has been constant.

  26. Thus derided, Tofano came back to the door, and finding his ingress barred, began adjuring her to let him in.

  27. He rushed into his master's presence, and implored him not to stir--not to allow any one to give ingress to the enemies the machine might disgorge.

  28. The change which Cap had made permitted the better ingress of air into Shadow's prison-pen, and he could now breathe more easily.

  29. Through the aperture thus formed a hand could be inserted, and the buttons turned about, when the window could be easily opened, permitting ingress to the cellar.


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