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Example sentences for "lodgment"

Lexicographically close words:
lodges; lodgeth; lodging; lodginge; lodgings; lodgments; lodgyng; lods; loed; loes
  1. Nostrum sellers are more canny than original; and when once an idea finds lodgment with one of them, it is made to serve many masters.

  2. Smith, Lew Wallace and McClernand, effected a lodgment in the works.

  3. A comparatively small body of the finest troops in the world, French and British, have effected a lodgment close to the heart of a great continental empire, still formidable even in its decadence.

  4. I hope it is too technical to effect a lodgment in the memories of the gossips:-- "(No.

  5. This was the house on the roof of which the Maxim was already mounted, and from the parapet there it would be easy to pick off any Afghans who had gained a lodgment on the wall itself.

  6. If, on the other hand, the fracture is compound the external opening furnishes a fertile field for the lodgment of disease-producing germs.

  7. This may originate in direct, mechanical injury to the navel in calving, or shortly after, with or without the lodgment of irritant or septic matter on its lacerated or cut end.

  8. Among the causes of spasm of the neck of the bladder may be named the lodgment of small stones or gravel, the feeding on irritant diuretics (see "Bloody urine," p.

  9. The corium consists of strong interlacing fibrous bands, chiefly white; its meshes are larger and more open toward the attached surface, giving lodgment to the sweat glands and fat.

  10. The fungus is found only in places where the disease process is manifest to the eye or becomes so in a very short time after the lodgment of the fungus.

  11. It is globular in form, with a depression in front for the lodgment of the lens.

  12. Tuberculosis and actinomycosis may infrequently be characterized by the lodgment of their parasitic causes in the parotid glands, in which case parotitis may be a symptom of either of these diseases.

  13. Smith thought a lodgment possible, but was not sanguine: Burnside thought something could be done in his front, but Warren differed.

  14. On the night of the 20th and morning of the 21st a lodgment was effected by General Butler, with one brigade of infantry, on the north bank of the James, at Deep Bottom, and connected by pontoon-bridge with Bermuda Hundred.

  15. If he wished to attack in force, his movement was timed too late in the day safely to effect a lodgment in a large city held by a resolute foe.

  16. Here they made a lodgment by two traverses across the ditch, constructed and filled with sand bags, and the bodies of their dead.

  17. Again directing his attacks upon the Tower, an effort to establish a lodgment in the glacis was once more unavailing.

  18. The enemy, having thus gained a lodgment in the chord line, developed a strong series of attacks northwards and southwards.

  19. Having effected a lodgment in our trenches in this manner, he then delivered a series of flank attacks.

  20. Such visibility of the canals through the white stretches proved the white not to be due to cloud suspended between us and them, but a surface deposit which found no lodgment upon the canals themselves.

  21. With continued refrigeration the crust thickens, more cracks are opened and more water given lodgment within, to the impoverishment of the seas.

  22. The attempt to crush the serpent which had thus effected a lodgment in the Hasmonaean house came too late.

  23. She has held undisputed lodgment since 1814 in Pondicherry and other towns in India that remained over to her from her East Indian empire conquered by Dupleix and abandoned by Louis XV's weak policy.

  24. Here the mountain face is very precipitous and gives but insecure lodgment to the snow.

  25. The plan contemplated that, in addition to crossing the Tennessee River and making a lodgment on the terminus of Missionary Ridge, I should demonstrate against Lookout Mountain, near Trenton, with a part of my command.

  26. The first step was to make a lodgment on the foot-hills and bluffs abreast of our position, while diversions were made by the navy toward Haines's Bluff, and by the first division directly toward Vicksburg.

  27. Next day arrangements were made to attempt a lodgment below Haines's Bluff: This was to be done by Steele's command, while the rest of the force attacked again where we had already tried.

  28. I now became satisfied that cavalry could not, or would not, make a sufficient lodgment on the railroad below Atlanta, and that nothing would suffice but for us to reach it with the main army.

  29. Now soft eyes invited burning glances, and graceful heads swayed alluringly toward the handsome cavaliers who momentarily had found lodgment in hearts which, like palaces, had many ante-chambers.

  30. A couch of straw had been the lonely shepherd's bed--and later the lodgment of his enemy, the wolf.

  31. The same has been observed at different periods, at other points in the Rocky Mountain chain, where the buffalo had made a temporary lodgment on the Pacific side of the mountains, but where they are now entirely extinct.

  32. They were of sufficient size for our purpose, as there were only three of us to each--the guides, with Jake and Lanty, finding their lodgment under the tilt of the waggon.

  33. The operations of an insect in boring into a leaf or a bud to form a lodgment for its eggs appear very simple.

  34. American policy of isolation so long as Europe had a lodgment on our borders.

  35. It was a call to the lodgment of American power on that ocean, the mastery of which is to determine the future relations of Asiatic and European civilizations.

  36. Their pickets made a lodgment along the foot of the glacis, and fired up the slope at the French in the covered way.

  37. In Ceylon, as elsewhere, the natives attribute its occurrence to drinking the waters of particular wells; but this belief is inconsistent with the fact that its lodgment in the human body is almost always effected just above the ankle.

  38. They poised themselves on their shining purple wings, as they made the first lodgment in the wood, enlivening the work with an uninterrupted hum of delight, which was audible to a considerable distance.

  39. And thus commencing to whip up the top of indignation within her, till it hummed loudly and threateningly, found an effective lodgment for her hand all of a sudden on the side of Lewis's cheek.

  40. Straightway there were differences of opinion as to the lodgment of the power to suspend, whether it was in the executive or in the legislative branch of the Government.

  41. Where do the true permanent causes of war, as distinguished from its proximate excitements, find their lodgment and abiding ground?

  42. On that occasion Butler's habit of making and keeping a full record of his doings served to release him from very serious charges, and so speedily that the charges did not obtain a lodgment in the public mind.

  43. There were three opinions that had obtained a lodgment in the public mind.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lodgment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accommodations; address; anchorage; berth; colonization; crib; diggings; domicile; dwelling; establishment; fixation; foundation; habitation; hospitality; housing; inauguration; initiation; installation; installment; investiture; lodging; mooring; nest; pad; peopling; place; plantation; population; quartering; residence; roof; room; roost; seat; settlement; shelter; subdivision; tract