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Example sentences for "kips"

Lexicographically close words:
kiosks; kiosque; kipper; kippered; kippers; kirchliche; kirchlichen; kiri; kirkmen; kirks
  1. Thus kips may be made into waxed butts, satin shoulders and lining bellies, but also may be cut down the back in "sides," both of which are finished limings.

  2. In this process the kips are first paddled in an old liquor (3 deg.

  3. In this section it will be necessary to take kips as typical of the rest, and to use it in a rather broad sense, including heavy calf and light dressing hides.

  4. After tanning, the kips are rounded usually into butts, shoulders and bellies, to which different finishes are given.

  5. In a precisely similar way kips and split hides which have received vegetable tannage are stripped and retanned in chrome and finished as for box calf, of which they are a good imitation.

  6. There has also been great increase in the imports of Indian kips and of South African hides, and it is not at all an impossible proposition to maintain a self-contained Imperial Leather Trade, should this be necessary.

  7. Speaking quite generally, kips for upper leather receive usually a long and mellow liming, a thorough bating and a sweet and very mellow tannage in weak liquors.

  8. These outstanding features of upper-leather methods will be further illustrated by a brief account of the tanning of kips (light hide and heavy calf), and outlining the best known types of finish for butt, shoulder and belly.

  9. Rosemarie, it kips on tellin' dat you're all de worl' to me!

  10. Rosemarie, it kips repeatin', an' each beat is true to thee.

  11. To prevent this, Washington stationed troops at the landing at Kips Bay (where East Thirty-fourth Street now ends), bidding them hold the British at bay long enough to enable Putnam to retreat.

  12. It was in a studio in one of the model tenements in Kips Bay, three weeks before, that Janet had met Cornelia and other people of radical tendencies.

  13. II* At the corner of Thirty-fourth Street and Second Avenue, where Kips Bay edges its dingy little proletarian stores into bourgeois respectability, the two young women entered a car bound for the West Twenty-third Street ferry.

  14. She didn't like anybody but herself to disparage Kips Bay.

  15. I had to learn what Kips Bay and its slum population were at first hand before I could desire in earnest to destroy them, root and branch.

  16. And she revelled unblushingly in the enchantment that her ignorance of pleasure and her natural high spirits had cast around Kips Bay, the model tenements, Cornelia, Robert and Claude.

  17. Kips Bay is keen on this order of precedence.

  18. And thus it has come to pass that, within the confines of Kips Bay, the model tenement lords it over the asylum for the insane.

  19. In Kips Bay, Janet had acted in the spirit (though not in the letter) of this convention.

  20. They were mostly young men and women who represented the various social strata found in the Kips Bay tenements.

  21. In Greenwich Village marriageable girls used this bait by instinct; in Kips Bay they used it with cool professional dexterity, as a surgeon uses a knife.

  22. The heavier hides and kips are split as described under dressing leather, and then tanned right out.

  23. A large quantity of kips is now dressed as box calf; these goods are the hides of yearling Indian cattle, and are dressed in an exactly similar manner as calf.


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