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Example sentences for "joinery"

Lexicographically close words:
joindre; joine; joined; joiner; joiners; joineth; joining; joinings; joins; joint
  1. Laminated work--the building up of circular rims for cabinet and joinery work.

  2. Other joinery is fixed to wood pins driven into the cob where required.

  3. Joinery and carpentry, for example, employ tools to make parts which in this country are turned out in factories.

  4. The somewhat clumsy joinery of the door frame, shown clearer in the enlargement, indicates the amalgamation of the English case-maker and the more finished marquetry-panel worker.

  5. Did Thomas Chippendale, when he was working at his father's bench at Worcester, execute any of his early joinery and carving to embellish now forgotten clocks?

  6. In the academic high schools the courses in joinery and cabinet-making bring the pupils to greater proficiency, but do not greatly extend the course in width.

  7. The limitation of the method is that joinery and cabinet-making cannot help a boy to try himself out for metal work, printing, gardening, tailoring, or commercial work.

  8. The city has therefore chosen joinery and cabinet-making as this sample.

  9. So many boys now are taught something of joinery at school that there must be a good many of them who know enough to see the beauty there is in a good piece of work, even though it may be quite plain.

  10. These wooden canopies and brackets are often very fine pieces of joinery and wood-carving.

  11. Down to recent times, joinery and cabinet making were in the hands of a number of masters in the trade, far greater in comparison to the pressure of the demand on the part of buyers than is the case at present.

  12. Whether we lean back or swing on them, the junction of the seats of chairs with the backs is always subject to severe trials; and on no article of furniture in common use is such good joinery required.

  13. In cabinet-making and joinery of all kinds, the number of angles round which mouldings have to pass is very great, as anyone will see who is at the pains to notice the construction of furniture of the most ordinary kind.

  14. All the woodwork passed under review thus far in joinery and cabinet-work, is of hard woods.

  15. The student's work from scale drawing occupies three terms, carpentry and joinery being taught in the first year, turning and cabinet making in the second, metal and stone work in the third.

  16. Very well; when he wanted a brick building, or joinery made of sawn timber, he would send for me.

  17. I understood the carpentry needed in brick-building, or at least part of it, and I could make joinery of sawn timber.

  18. The most ancient piece of joinery in Perugia is that executed for the Arte della Mercanzia in the 14th century.

  19. Rossi also gives other interesting details about the making of various pieces of joinery in Perugia and their makers, from which I extract the following:--"In the refectory of S.

  20. By the early 19th century, the more refined work of joinery required over 50 tools.

  21. France sustained a higher standard than England, and such figure work as was introduced into furniture was better executed, though her joinery was inferior.

  22. Joinery work in connexion with the fitting up of church interiors must be regarded as a separate branch of the joiner's art.

  23. Mouldings are used in joinery to relieve plain surfaces by the contrasts of light and shade formed by their members, and to ornament or accentuate those particular portions which the designer may wish to bring into prominence.

  24. Numerous examples of the use of these forms occur in ordinary joinery work, and may be recognized on reference to the illustrations, which will be easily understood without further description.

  25. As the arts of joinery and carpentry are often followed by the same individual, it appears natural to conclude that the same principles are common to both, but a closer examination leads to a different conclusion.

  26. Fine examples of Old English joinery exist at Hampton Court Palace, the Temple Church in London, the Chapel of Henry VII.

  27. The art of joinery has for its object the addition in a building of all the fixed woodwork necessary for convenience or ornament.

  28. The preparation of joinery entirely by hand is now the exception--a fact due to the ever-increasing use of machines, which have remarkably shortened the time required to execute the ordinary operations.

  29. The first dawnings of the art of modern joinery appear in the thrones, stalls, pulpits and screens of early Gothic cathedrals and churches, but even in these it is indebted to the carver for everything that is worthy of regard.

  30. Owing to this shrinkage certain joints and details, hereinafter described and illustrated, are in common use for the purpose of counteracting the bad effect this movement would otherwise have upon all joinery work.

  31. In carpentry framing owes its strength mainly to the form and position of its parts, but in joinery the strength of a frame depends to a larger extent upon the strength of the joinings.

  32. A species of joinery or cabinet-work consisting of an inlay of geometric or other patterns, generally of different colors, -- used especially for floors.

  33. He put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed .

  34. Very carefully-seasoned wood should be employed, for all joinery purposes, in the hot rooms.

  35. Since joinery involves the constant use of joints, a reference list of them, with illustrations, definitions, uses, and directions for making typical ones may be of convenience to workers in wood.

  36. A species of joinery or cabinet work, consisting of an inlay of geometric or other patterns, generally of different colored woods, used particularly for floors.

  37. It is simple in style and the joinery is good.

  38. The craftsman gave a personal character to his handiwork, which makes such pieces of original and artistic interest, and cabinetmaking and joinery was not then so machine-made as it is now.


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