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Example sentences for "kiln"

Lexicographically close words:
killingly; killings; kills; killt; killum; kilns; kilo; kilogram; kilogramme; kilogrammes
  1. Such a burner will be cheaply made and will furnish a kiln temperature of 1400 degrees, but it will burn a great deal of gas.

  2. Fit all the parts together snugly, take out the plugs in the top and bottom, and your kiln is ready for business.

  3. By the time the clay of the kiln is well dried, it will be found that it has all shrunk away from the iron about 3/8 in.

  4. These temperatures can not be obtained in the above kiln by means of the ordinary Bunsen burner.

  5. When we go to play on the shore by the chalk-burner's lime-kiln you must dress yourself in this manner, to make the children jealous who pelt us with stones and call us little guillotines.

  6. Scarcely had Jacques Ferrand quitted the lime-kiln to return to Paris than M.

  7. The kiln drawers are never forced to draw out the saggers, however, when they are intensely hot unless they wish to do so.

  8. Mr. Marwood waited a moment, then added: "In some foreign countries a tunnel kiln is used instead of an oven like this.

  9. Sometimes, however, a different process is preferred and the material is put into a kiln and melted instead.

  10. What would be attractive on the unfired clay might emerge from the kiln a very ugly product indeed.

  11. After the kiln is filled the men brick up the door of the oven and start the fire.

  12. The clay coating of the kiln is then broken down and the ball of molten slag and charcoal is taken out and hammered, and about 3 lbs.

  13. When the corpse is consumed, the kiln is demolished.

  14. The body is walled up in a sort of kiln of a pyramidal form, with a small door at the bottom, and an opening at the top to maintain a current of air, and allow the smoke to escape.

  15. Remember it never rains here; these hills have never known water since the Flood, but have been baking in this vast kiln for a million years.

  16. The sun bakes hard in Egypt; no other kiln is needed.

  17. Continuous working, and consequent economy of fuel lost by cooling and subsequent reheating of the kiln walls.

  18. The time occupied in loading, burning, and drawing a kiln of 30 tons of clinker averages about seven days.

  19. The cast-iron vessels must be heated uniformly, and the hot pyrites kiln gases must be passed downwards through the salt in order to ensure uniform distribution.

  20. Sidenote: Great Kiln Road] At the point that is now Seventh Avenue and Fifteenth Street, then intersected by the Union Road, the Great Kiln Road ended.

  21. The line of this road, where it joined the Great Kiln Road, is still clearly shown in the oblique side wall of the house at the northwest corner of Seventh Avenue and Fifteenth Street.

  22. This point was also the junction of Southampton and Great Kiln Roads.

  23. It was the longest drive from the town, by way of the Post Road, Bloomingdale Road and so across the west to Southampton, Great Kiln roads, through Greenwich Village and by the river road back to town.

  24. Very few of these interesting pieces were found--all of them close to the kiln numbered 3 on fig.

  25. It was found, with one or two less remarkable dies, in the waste round kiln 3.

  26. Upon the top a plate of iron is fastened in the manner of the keystone of an arch, and bands of iron are passed round the kiln and drawn tight with screw bolts and nuts to strengthen it.

  27. The wall of the kiln is carried up nearly straight for 6 feet, when it is drawn in, so as to become bluntly conical.

  28. The object of a kiln is to replace the cover of a meiler by a permanent structure.

  29. Intermediate between the meiler and the kiln is the Foucauld system, the object of which is to replace the cover by a structure more or less permanent, which has all the disadvantages of both systems, with no advantages peculiar to itself.

  30. There is sometimes an additional opening near the top to allow of the rapid escape of the smoke and gas at the time of firing, which is then closed, and kept closed until the kiln is discharged.

  31. The kiln charcoal is very large, so that the loss in fine coal is very much diminished.

  32. The floor of the kiln was formerly made of two rows of brick set edgewise and carefully laid, but latterly it is found to be best made of clay.

  33. For there were shouts and cries of encouragement from behind, enough to spur on the greatest laggard, and on they went till the dog reached the old kiln and tried to enter a low hole, probably the one he made his den.

  34. She observed, besides, that two of them were frequently absent from the kiln where they lived; but that one always remained at home to make certain that she should not follow or dog them to the haunt they frequented.

  35. On looking around him, he descended a flight of stone steps that led to the fireplace or the kiln or opening in which the fuel used to dry the grain was always burned.

  36. One night, shortly after Bryan's visit to his landlord, the Hogans and Phats were assembled in the kiln between the hours of twelve and one o'clock, after having drunk nearly three quarts of whiskey among them.

  37. The kiln for burning the limestone into lime is a cup-shaped concavity, surrounded with solid brick-work, open at the top, and terminating below by an iron grate.

  38. This furnace I formerly charged with alternate strata or layers of small coal and limestone, the latter being broken previously into pieces not larger than a man's fist, until the kiln was completely filled.

  39. This takes some time, and only when it is quite free from all moisture is it ready to be taken to the kiln to bake or fire.

  40. The kiln in which it is fired is the ordinary one of the potter.

  41. A vast brick-kiln is raised in a short time; a touch plants a field of corn, and a few weeks turns a forest into a farm.

  42. They have burnt a lime-kiln, and are burning a brick-kiln of one hundred thousand bricks as an experiment, and they bid fair to be first-rate.

  43. The kiln next door to it, is full of pots and pans of all shapes and sizes, but its opening is plastered up with clay, and they are not to be seen.

  44. The kiln was small; it had happily been in recent use, for it was still warm, and the radiation was grateful to Baudillas, whose teeth were chattering in his head.

  45. Had the mouth of the kiln been turned to the setting in place of the rising sun, we should not have felt the wind so greatly.

  46. Pottery comes out of the first firing in the kiln a dull porous ware and in colour either cream, buff, or red, according to the amount of iron in the clay.

  47. It should then be set in the kiln on a kind of pointed tripod of hard burned clay, called the "stilt," which prevents the glaze from sticking to the floor or shelves of the kiln.

  48. This must be done gradually and the kiln must be allowed to cool completely before it is opened.

  49. The cooling also should be very gradual and, as in bisque firing, the kiln should be allowed to get cool before it is opened.

  50. Further details about firing and caring for the kiln may, of course, be learned from descriptions accompanying the apparatus.

  51. All glazed ware should be placed in the kiln with at least 1/2 an inch of space between the pieces to prevent them from sticking together during the fusing state of the glaze, when it is apt to bubble or "boil.

  52. Robin Davies and Neddy "Pandy" arrived just in time for the coffee, and when the meal was over they all returned to the kiln room, where the air was filled with the aroma of the roasting corn.

  53. When she arrived there was Gethin busy with the sacks of corn, there was the hot kiln upon which the grain would be roasted, while ranged round it stood the benches which Jacob had prepared for the company.

  54. In making Portland cement the raw material is ground into a fine powder and poured into one end of a long cylindrical kiln which looks like a smokestack lying on its side.

  55. After the raw material has been burned thoroughly and is taken from the kiln it looks like little cinders or clinkers about the size of marbles.

  56. And when the kiln had been burned out she helped Nils clear it, and never before had he had such a quantity of charcoal, nor charcoal of so fine a quality.

  57. The kiln was glowing with a handsome, even glow, and the tall woman was about and working as usual.

  58. Then he was to mount the horse and ride back to the kiln without stopping, have the troll-woman and her children get into the wagon, and at once drive out on the ice with them.

  59. For, having half stunned the Squire with a fearful blow, inflicted with a lump of chalk, George dragged him towards the kiln in which the lime was still burning, diffusing a pale red glow immediately above.

  60. I was examined, and I swore that I had quitted the prisoner at the lime-kiln at a quarter to ten on the night in question.

  61. When the process is completed the kiln is allowed to cool somewhat, the lime raked out, and the same process repeated.


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