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Example sentences for "jointed"

Lexicographically close words:
joineth; joining; joinings; joins; joint; jointer; jointing; jointly; joints; jointure
  1. There is none; the difference is merely circumstantial.

  2. A third party sprang up, headed by the descendants of Robert Chewit, the companion of the great Hudson.

  3. It was one of those jointed wooden monkeys that by means of a slide performs the most comical evolutions around the top of a pole.

  4. There was a fourth chum also, the Steve spoken of and who had slipped away with his new steel-jointed bait-rod, and a handful of fat grubs, as soon as he heard Max say they had gone far enough on their way.

  5. Why, Max, he slipped away with his little steel-jointed fishing-rod as soon as he heard you say we'd stop here over night.

  6. This consisted of a single division of the long-jointed bamboo indigenous to Hawaii, which was left open at one end.

  7. The arms are loosely jointed to the body.

  8. A short trunk, half a foot or a foot tall, branches into many jointed "flapjacks" six to ten inches long and about as wide, which combine to form a compact rounded head three to six feet high.

  9. One arm and one leg are jointed so as to be readily removed and replaced by the assistant when he is operating the skeleton.

  10. Every one has seen in the show windows of toy-dealers a plaything called the "wrestlers," and which consists of two little weighted and jointed figures that are set in motion by a taut string.

  11. Item, 15 little wooden dolls, jointed at the knees and elbows, the same as tante Yvonne used to sell for two sols at Saint Pol de Leon--.

  12. It holds fifteen little wooden dolls," said I, "jointed at the knees and elbows; and they cost two sols apiece.

  13. Here were real windows of quartz, and he could see more of the moon's surface as the tractor and its jointed cars wheeled about in a great circle and headed off in the direction from whence it had come.

  14. Far off, something like a long jointed bug with a single glaring light in its head was crawling toward them.

  15. B, jointed to them above and connected below with the head of the piston of a hydraulic press.

  16. The scutellum and the five-jointed tarsi at once remove it from Mallophaga, and it is a wonder that Le Conte and Horn have not more fully insisted on this fact.

  17. The clicks, on the contrary, are jointed to axes fixed on the bottom of the cylinders.

  18. The bivalved carapace has a jointed rostrum, and covers only the front part of the body, to which it is only attached quite in front, the valve-like sides being under control of an adductor muscle.

  19. The Dichelestiidae, on account of their sometimes many-jointed first antennae, are referred also to this tribe by Giesbrecht.

  20. He got his jointed ladder, set it very softly underneath the window where the feeble gas-light was, and felt about with his hands for the grating he had observed when he first reconnoitered the premises from the river.

  21. They display in their commercial manoeuvres great ability jointed to the most signal bad faith.

  22. This stem is formed of a series of internodes, or jointed pieces, more or less wide apart, each of which bears a leathery flower, with elongated sheath.

  23. They hold the bronze pump-cylinders, the moveable bottoms of which, carefully turned on a lathe, have iron elbows fastened to their centres and jointed to levers, and are wrapped in fleeces of wool.

  24. A supporter is jointed on, halfway up, one and one half holes in breadth and thickness.

  25. At the extremities it has legs, made exactly alike and jointed on perpendicularly to the extremities of the straightedge, and also crosspieces, fastened by tenons, connecting the straightedge and the legs.

  26. Enclosed in this drum there is a smaller one, the two being perfectly jointed together by tenon and socket, in such a way that the smaller drum revolves closely but easily in the larger, like a stopcock.

  27. To the right and left of the lintel, which rests upon the jambs, there are to be projections fashioned like projecting bases and jointed to a nicety with the cymatium itself.

  28. In striking at other enemies the scorpion whirls about, keeping its tail toward them, repeatedly striking down and using its jointed tail with marvelous ingenuity.

  29. These segmented animals with "jointed feet," as their name suggests, may be divided in a general way into water breathers and air breathers.

  30. One may distinguish each successive flow by its dense central portion, often jointed with large vertical columns, and the upper portion with its mass of confused irregular columns and scoriaceous surface.

  31. Draw a section of a sea cliff cut in well jointed rocks whose joints dip toward the land.

  32. Cliffs of such slow-decaying rocks as quartzite and granite when closely jointed accumulate talus in large amounts.

  33. Will a stream deepen its channel more rapidly on massive or on thin-bedded and close-jointed rocks?

  34. Dense thickets, like cane or bamboo brakes, were composed of thick clumps of Calamites, whose slender, jointed stems shot up to a height of forty feet, and at the joints bore slender branches set with whorls of leaves.

  35. Here also we find the rock stratified and jointed (Fig.

  36. Where the rock is soft or closely jointed it is often shattered to a depth of several feet beneath the drift, while stony clay has been thrust in among the fragments into which the rock is broken.

  37. By that time Tom Chist had grown into a strong-limbed, thick-jointed boy of fourteen or fifteen years of age.

  38. Nevertheless, his lumpy face had begun to look flabby, his cheeks hollow, and his loose-jointed body shrunk more awkwardly together into its clothes.

  39. In the case of several boards to be jointed into one piece, they should be glued together before the surfaces are smoothed.

  40. After properly planing one edge of each board, keep one board in the vise, jointed edge up, and place its to-be neighbor in position upon it.

  41. It is then top-jointed by running a flat file or a saw-jointer, Fig.

  42. The article illustrated and described the driving each night of a jointed iron rod up through the tunnel roof to the street, twenty or so feet above, for "testing the position.

  43. All Calamariae are characterized by a hollow and jointed stalk, stem, or trunk, upon which the branches and leaves (in cases where they exist) are set so as to encircle the jointed stem in whorls.

  44. On each metameron there is a pair of non-jointed feet, and besides these, in most cases, one or more hard thorns or bristles similar to those of many Ring-worms.

  45. In all of them the non-jointed body has the form of a simple barrel-shaped sack, which is surrounded by a thick cartilaginous mantle.

  46. Finally the Member for West Kensington with his crudely jointed nephew departed into the fog, and Mr. Wilmot, with an exaggerated sigh, shut the front door.

  47. Three-ply" will not split easily and should be used for the jointed animals and swinging animals described in Chapter XX.

  48. It can be used for making wheels and the various jointed and mechanical toys described in the following chapters.


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