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Example sentences for "iron bars"

  • Each consists of iron bars, of feet, and of iron plates.

  • Ropes, battens, or iron bars placed on a yard or spar and set taut, either for bending the head of a sail to, or acting as a traveller.

  • It is furnished with rails and man-ropes; the lower end of it is kept at a proper distance from the ship's side by iron bars or braces to render it more convenient.

  • A heavy frame of wooden or iron bars, sliding in vertical grooves within the masonry over the gateway of a fortified town, to be lowered for barring the passage.

  • With Bess's assistance he then climbed up to the window, which, as has just been stated, was secured by iron bars of great thickness crossed by a stout beam of oak.

  • Besides this, the door was crossed and recrossed by iron bars, clenched by broad-headed nails.

  • A stout wooden shutter, opening inwardly, being removed, disclosed a grating of iron bars.

  • Above this first layer of iron bars, fully half an inch depth of the powder is spread, then a new series of bars is stratified, and so on till the trough is filled within six inches of the top.

  • The pressure exerted by these scissors is such, that they can cut without difficulty, iron bars, one-half or two-thirds of an inch thick.

  • That wrought-iron bars heated to redness, and allowed to cool slowly in air, do not show any change in dimensions (Experiment 3).

  • A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.

  • This box was grated, only the grating of it was not of gilded wood, as at the opera; it was a monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the wall by enormous fastenings which resembled clenched fists.

  • Stones, beams, iron bars, coals were all mixed up together in heterogeneous confusion, as if a volcano had vomited them out.

  • Instead of iron bars, a great quantity of "rammers" lay scattered about.

  • All the chimneys had iron gates to shut off any possible entrance that way; every window was provided with strong iron bars.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about half; accessory after the fact; always the; anything but; aqua vitae; fixed rate; iron and; iron bridge; iron cage; iron core; iron door; iron girders; iron ores; iron plate; iron plates; iron pyrites; iron railing; iron stove; iron sword; iron work; marched back; moral agents; must pass; noble fellow; round trip; single drop