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Example sentences for "leveling"

Lexicographically close words:
levee; levees; level; leveled; leveler; levell; levelled; leveller; levelling; levelly
  1. Then, by gently leveling the picture with the hand, the superfluous gelatine will be washed away, and if the exposure has been correct a perfect image should remain.

  2. After the negative is made and dried it is laid on a leveling stand and a solution of gelatine poured on it.

  3. His political speeches showed him to be a democrat of the leveling order--a democrat, that is to say, of views much more extreme than had ever been professed by John Bright or Richard Cobden.

  4. The real exceptions to the above rules are caused by a prevention of the leveling influx and outflow of capital.

  5. However, the absolute freedom of removal from one place to another produces not only a leveling of wages, but also an absolute rise of the rate of wages, as may be seen by contrasting it with the glebae adscriptio.

  6. How much must the existence of a special class of capitalists facilitate the concentration of capital and the consequent promotion of production, as well as its (capital's) price-leveling influx and outflow!

  7. A suitable arena for the contest was prepared by carefully leveling and smoothing a straight, narrow strip of ground to any length desired, a slight wall being thrown up along each margin.

  8. It consists of a cast-iron frame resting on three leveling screws, one of which was connected by cords to the table at S, Fig.

  9. The apparatus is furnished with a standard with rack and pinion, and the base furnished with leveling screws.

  10. Then he faced Ollie again quickly, leveling his finger like a pointer of direct accusation.

  11. That was what came of leveling oneself to the plane of common people and "pore" folks, and visiting them in jail, they said to one another through their wide-stretched eyes.

  12. Our rocky home was greatly improved by a wide porch which I made along the whole front of our rooms and entrances, by leveling the ground to form a terrace, and sheltering it with a veranda of bamboo, supported by pillars of the same.

  13. The unions have even succeeded in leveling up a little the scale of women's wages, thus measurably meeting the complaint of 1848 that in her employments woman "receives but a scanty remuneration.

  14. The farther lessening of the difference in material possessions by leveling down on one side as well as leveling up on the other, has lately become a very real and active question.

  15. In the Modern Republic it seemed something like the sacrifice of the best to the good, the leveling down of the highest as well as the raising up of the lowest.

  16. Does justice consist primarily in leveling the distribution of powers and benefits, or in proportioning them to the scale of character and intelligence?

  17. Now I am informed that in Alberta, and some places in California, they do not go to the expense of leveling land, but use a system of preparing land for irrigation at a cost of about 60 cents per acre.

  18. What is the best treatment for spots that have been scraped in leveling for irrigation?

  19. Sitting stark upright upon his horse on the great rock at the brink of the village, his narrow face a cinder-gray, Don Jaime was leveling his huge horse-pistol at the backing form of the golden-haired girl!

  20. Perhaps-- But Morales was leveling his own revolver at him with a hand only a trifle less steady than that of the doctor.

  21. We are leveling all ranks in India; we are raising the humblest men, if they will pass certain examinations, to posts which we refuse to the most exalted of nobles unless they can pass higher.

  22. So far is polygamy from being opposed in spirit to democracy, that it is impossible here, in Salt Lake City, not to see that it is the most leveling of all social institutions--Mormonism the most democratic of religions.

  23. Our leveling rule does not even, like other democracies, raise up a military chieftainship.

  24. But leveling their shot guns on the murderers they surrendered.

  25. Finally one of our boys discovered a hand up in the juniper and leveling his gun, told him to come down.

  26. Long and I were armed with double barrel shot guns, and leveling them on the crowd we ordered them back or we would kill every man of them.

  27. This is a process in which such leveling as there is tends to be downward, whereas what we need is for all the truly aristocratic elements in our national life to have an opportunity to propagate themselves and to extend to the many.

  28. The difficulty is present even in the case of urban land when the improvements of filling, draining, and leveling have become incorporated with the site.

  29. Finally, there is a widespread approval of the progressive rate just because it in so far acts as a leveling influence upon fortunes.

  30. The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied.

  31. A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles.

  32. From that time till the 10th of June an incredible amount of useless and harassing toil was wasted in widening and leveling the forest paths, and erecting unnecessarily elaborate bridges.

  33. The shifting of labor and capital from industry to industry, leveling returns to capital and labor, involves an enormous amount of trading that would not occur in a "normal equilibrium.

  34. With the aid of such a charter they aim at changing the laws and public officers every six months, at extending their leveling process to every constituted authority, to all legal pre-eminence and to property.

  35. Accordingly, when the time arrived for leaving the shores of the sea, he organized a leveling party, furnishing them with the necessary instruments and with proper instructions, and commissioned them to perform this service.

  36. This could be positively and precisely ascertained only by the process of "leveling a line," as it is termed, across from the sea to the shores of the Mediterranean.

  37. There was one remaining mode of determining the question, and that was by carrying an actual level across the land, by means of leveling instruments, such as are used in the construction of railroads and canals.


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