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Example sentences for "keystone"

Lexicographically close words:
keyhole; keying; keyless; keynote; keys; keystones; keyword; khai; khail; khaki
  1. He came of Scotch-English ancestry and while spending his youthful days in the Keystone state acquired a common school education.

  2. His father was a blacksmith by trade and in 1839 removed with his family from the Keystone state to Greene county, Ohio, settling in Fairfield, where he engaged in farming and also followed blacksmithing.

  3. Margaret (Mitchner) McSherry, both of whom were natives of the Keystone state.

  4. Margaret (Keys) Henderson, who were born in the Keystone state, of Irish descent.

  5. We believe in the family as the keystone of the community, and in the community as the keystone of the Nation.

  6. This principle was the keystone of the comprehensive territorial policy I sent the Congress last year.

  7. It was the most momentous act of his life; it formed the keystone in the arch of his destinies.

  8. High-ridged the whirled drift has almost reached The powdered keystone of the churchyard porch; Mute hangs the hooded bell; the tombs lie buried.

  9. Win the keystone of the bridge, for a running stream they dare not cross!

  10. But before good Meg could reach the keystone of the bridge she had no tail to toss.

  11. We received at this time the nickname "Keystone soldiers," some genial ass conceiving that we looked as funny as the Keystone police.

  12. This is, in fact, the keystone of the imperial arch.

  13. Shortly after the riots Sir William Willcocks, the noted engineer, said in a public statement: "The keystone of the British occupation of Egypt was the fact that the fellaheen were for it.

  14. Utah is larger than all New England, and about equal in size to the Empire State and Keystone State combined.

  15. The despotism of the Mormon hierarchy has for its keystone the superstition and ignorance of the people.

  16. The keystone in this case is the fear of certain death to the man who leads.

  17. South Africa is the keystone of the Empire, and for the instant Ladysmith was the keystone of South Africa.

  18. The shop was on the ground floor of a house sixty years old, and opened on the street by a vaulted arch the keystone of which bore a grotesque head with horns.

  19. When it is night, and it is dark, at the hour which is the keystone of night's black arch, Christ comes to us, striding across the stormy waters.

  20. Will the arch stand when the keystone is struck out?

  21. That hour was 'the power of darkness,' the very keystone of the black arch of man's sin, and some shadow of it fell upon the soul of Christ Himself.

  22. In the autumn of the same year a party of men surveying for the Reynolds Home Railway, from Valdez to the Yukon, met armed resistance in Keystone Canyon from a force of men holding right of way for the Guggenheims.

  23. There was another bit of enchanting forest; then, of a sudden, we were in the famed Keystone Canyon.

  24. Maybe a phonograph sets up a tune they used to deal out at Magnuson's roadhouse on the trail--and you hear that blame lonesome waterfall up in Keystone Canyon calling you as plain as you hear the phonograph!

  25. Ruskin is very enthusiastic over the conceit which placed the Spirito Santo on the keystone of the bridge, the flight, as he thinks, producing an effect of lightness.

  26. Above this capital, on the corner of the building itself, are the famous Adam and Eve, presiding over the keystone of the structure as over the human race.

  27. Her father had been the keystone in the arch of Mary's existence: he was gone, and a mass of chaotic ruins alone remained of the familiar visions which had once beguiled her.

  28. At the end of January two Confederate gunboats under Commodore Ingraham attacked the blockading flotilla of Charleston, forced the Mercedita to surrender, badly mauled the Keystone State, and damaged the Quaker City.

  29. I have a book some one sent me from the United States telling about their adventures at the Keystone ranch.

  30. This latter name was given him some two years before when he went to visit his cousin Donald at the latter's home on the Keystone Ranch in Wyoming.

  31. The "Keystone State" enjoys the proud honor of lifting its head higher than any other tree now known to be standing on the western continent.

  32. Ancestral worship is the keystone of the religion of the Chinese; "the keystone also of China's social fabric.

  33. The center element of this panel consists of two large raised rectangular panels topped by a semi-circular louvred wooden fan design, then a round keystone arch, the whole portion of the composition topped by a high monumental pediment.

  34. We are here on the top of the fan vaulting which we have so much admired from below, and can note with what wondrous skill its huge stones are dovetailed into one another with the round keystone boss in the centre of each span.

  35. This magnificent Sluice is the keystone of the whole drainage scheme of the fenland.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "keystone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apse; arcade; arch; archway; camber; climax; core; cornerstone; cove; crisis; crux; cupola; dome; essence; essential; frieze; fundamental; gist; gravamen; headstone; heart; igloo; issue; kernel; keystone; landmark; meat; milestone; pith; pivot; point; quoin; span; stone; substance; topping; vault; vaulting