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Example sentences for "inset"

Lexicographically close words:
inserted; inserting; insertion; insertions; inserts; insets; inshore; inside; insider; insiders
  1. The trousers were tucked into high boots, slightly wrinkled at the instep, with an inset of pebbled horsehide, frosted green in hue, at the heels.

  2. They kicked off the stiff leather slippers in which they scuff about, and entered in their tall boots, with the inset of frosted green pebbled horsehide in the heel, and soft soles, like socks.

  3. The inset shows the arm carrying the tube more highly magnified.

  4. The inset shows the proportion of skin and cartilage (light area) to be removed from the back of the ear.

  5. Footnote 175: For some account of the Bagdad railway (shown in the inset map), see Vol.

  6. You will understand more clearly what the plan was if you study the little inset map on the opposite page.

  7. Inset into this long strip of territory lies Palestine.

  8. This scheme of delimitation leaves Palestine inset into the French protectorate of Syria, and it is difficult to see to whom the protectorate of Palestine should be properly assigned except to France.

  9. The signatures are A and B (two sheets, each eight leaves), the one inset within the other.

  10. The signatures are A to C (3 sheets, each 8 leaves), inset within each other.

  11. And there was an inset of his mother, swathed in the black symbols of ungluttable grief,--a most creditable mother.

  12. At various points the polished steel was broken by indentations or inset round dots that were thick portholes or indications of entry ports.

  13. He swung over to the panel, hooked his foot under the handgrip and grasped the lever inset in the surface.

  14. The circular inset ring that marked the hatchway entry port was a few feet from where his rope was hooked.

  15. One of the men brushed him aside and pulled at the inset handle.

  16. Jason asked, handing the outcast a flat gold case inset with a single large diamond.

  17. One evening he produced a crystal and inset was a very tiny portrait of Dowager Empress of Russia, which the company mistook for a miniature, and thought it marvellous that any human eye could see to produce it.

  18. A diagram is inset giving a side view of the engine, in order to show the grouping of the cylinders.

  19. They passed through a big inset gate in the adobe wall, into the patio.

  20. Later, in a jeweller's, he discovered a plain gold locket, shaped like a heart and inset with one little diamond.

  21. The inset photo shows the right upper jaw of a fin whale with the baleen intact.

  22. Details of the dorsal ridge are clearly visible in the inset photograph.

  23. In the inset photo from a Canadian whaling station, note the baleen plates, less than 3 feet (0.

  24. The inset photo shows a ventral view of the tip of the lower jaw of an adult male from the east coast of Florida.

  25. On the animal in the inset photo note also the characteristic rounded projection below the tip of the lower jaw, heavily encrusted with barnacles.

  26. Inset narratives, those stories within stories which make pleasing digressions in other longer romances, are here very few.

  27. The other inset stories are mostly short myths.

  28. The only parallel to them is to be found in the inset story of Cupid and Psyche.

  29. Inset is a map of the Ottoman Empire showing in the northeast the Caucasus, where the Turks were routed by the Russians, who later advanced on Erzerum and Tabriz.

  30. The inset is a drawing of the paddle-wheels which fill the centre portion of the boat and which work upon the pivot marked 7.

  31. As they spied me there was a concerted rush by those nearest the entrance where we stood, but a line of radium bulbs inset along the threshold of their chamber brought them to a sudden halt--evidently they dared not cross that line of light.

  32. One layer glides over another, and the stones inset in each are ground and smoothed and scratched.

  33. Clays and sand, now hardened to firm rock, are inset with unsorted stones of all sizes, which often are faceted and scratched.

  34. For both of them were clad altogether in green, and both of them wore about their necks very wonderful collars of wrought gold inset with opal stones and emeralds.

  35. About the neck and waist of the exquisite female figure were inset jewels, simulating girdle and necklace.

  36. She was twisting at an inset handle around which faint lines indicated the door edge.

  37. Dressing for her interview with Matthias, Joan donned a summery gown of lawn, liberally inset with lacework over her shoulders and bosom: a frock for the country-house or the seashore, never for the Broadway pavements.

  38. By the time she had finished her toilet, aided by a small mirror inset between the forward windows, Butch was stopping the cab before the East Seventy-sixth Street tenement.

  39. The hall was papered in deep crimson, against which a monumental black-walnut hat-and-umbrella stand was visible chiefly because of the gleam of an inset mirror.

  40. Between the two shops a door on the level of the pavement of Theodora Place gave on a little inset flight of steps which led up to the actual entrance.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inset" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bed; embed; imbed; inlay; insert; insertion; introduce; tessera