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Example sentences for "lubricating"

Lexicographically close words:
lubricant; lubricants; lubricate; lubricated; lubricates; lubrication; lubricator; lubricators; lubricity; lubricus
  1. Harry bent low over the carburettor and carefully adjusted it and the lubricating system.

  2. The best method for lubricating grooved bullets is to mix beeswax and cylinder or other heavy oil,--one part oil to four beeswax.

  3. This, mixed with the lubricating oil washed down from the engines, had cemented into buns and balls which found their way down and choked both hand and engine pump suctions.

  4. Among the hundreds of recipes that have been published from time to time, tallow has only found a place in one or two mixtures, yet it is one of the finest materials for strengthening and lubricating the fibres of leather.

  5. Right: A careful driver can go fifteen miles on a gallon of gasoline, and at the same time use very little lubricating oil.

  6. Faulty: A careful driver can go fifteen miles on a gallon of gasoline, and at the same time very little lubricating oil is used.

  7. Loosen cylinder head in order to provide for lubricating cylinder so as to leave the main rod up on the disabled side and proceed on one side.

  8. At what temperature does engine oil lose its lubricating qualities?

  9. Disconnect the forward end of the radius rod, suspend it from running board, block the valve, provide for lubricating the piston and proceed.

  10. What care should be exercised in lubricating a superheater locomotive?

  11. However, there are times when leakage by the packing is so great that the oil is blown off the swab as fast as it is applied, therefore is of no value in lubricating the parts.

  12. Engine oil loses its lubricating qualities before it gets up to the temperature of the valves and cylinders when they are working steam.

  13. Any excess lubricating oil in a diesel engine's cylinder is consumed cleanly to produce power.

  14. This allowed the engine to run on its own lubricating oil when the throttle was in idle position.

  15. In this atmosphere of the literature of lubricating oil and drop forgings and body enamels, as an eight-dollar-a-week copyist, Una first beheld the drama and romance of the office world.

  16. She had lists of manufacturers of motor-car accessories, of makers of lubricating oils, of distributors of ball-bearings and speedometers and springs and carburetors and compositions for water-proofing automobile tops.

  17. In order to avoid excessive fouling with black powders a self-lubricating bullet has been invented and introduced by Smith & Wesson, which can be furnished in all calibers above .

  18. An excellent machine for lubricating bullets is made by the Ideal Manufacturing Company.

  19. This is a small volume of 110 pages, which has now become extremely scarce.

  20. This oil circulating system plays a most important part in cooling the engine as well as lubricating it.

  21. Exercise caution when lubricating brake operating cams and front brake cover bushing, as excess grease working out of these bearings is likely to get onto brake lining, reducing brake efficiency.

  22. Before attempting to diagnose trouble in engine lubricating system, rider must be familiar with and understand indications by instrument panel signal lights (par.

  23. Although scavenger pump is not “timed,” the breather valve sleeve which drives it must be timed to balance the engine lubricating system.

  24. And you didn't buy a bottle of lubricating oil, because Mrs. Trivell hasn't got any.

  25. Bessie made no mention of it: neither did Robert, though he went to the village shop, purchased a pound of candles, and tried unsuccessfully to buy a bottle of lubricating oil.

  26. His inventions, like those of Woods', cover a wide range of subjects, but relate particularly to the scheme of lubricating machinery.

  27. But gasoline and lubricating oils are absolutely essential to the permanent prosperity of any well-conducted wayside inn.

  28. The best way to find the pounding is to throw a stream of heavy lubricating oil on the bearings, one by one, until the noise is silenced for the moment.

  29. Every country inn should have on hand gasoline--this is easily stored outside in a tank buried in the ground--and lubricating oils for steam and gasoline machines; these can be kept and sold in gallon cans.

  30. The one sure result is that the average user who knows nothing about lubricating oils is kept in a state of frantic anxiety lest his can of oil runs low at a time and place where he cannot get more of the patent brand.

  31. The former may certainly be considered a useful lubricating agent for the finer kinds of machinery.

  32. Tea oil compares favorably with olive oil, therefore, in respect of acidity, a quality of which note has to be taken when considering the employment of oil as a lubricating agent.

  33. It is the duty of this pump to convey oil from the lubricating tank M into the steam feed-pipe just before it enters the steam-chest.

  34. Many times an increase in heat causes the steam to reach such a temperature that it will burn up the lubricating oil before it reaches the cylinder of the engine.

  35. In this way the live superheated steam carries a certain amount of lubricating oil with it in the cylinder.

  36. Before operating the engine a little lubricating oil should be run into the cylinder through the inlet or exhaust ports.

  37. The cholic, gripes, or painful prickings of the nervous coat by the India teas, are allayed by the drinking of the sanative tea, from its tepid and lubricating nature not being perverted by any corrosive preparation.

  38. There are no cells in the body, where dropsy may not be produced, if the lymphatics cease to absorb that mucilaginous fluid, which is perpetually deposited in them, for the purpose of lubricating their surfaces.

  39. He mopped his brimming eyes with a handful of cotton waste, not innocent of lubricating fluid.

  40. The medical effects of the damson and common prunes are, to abate heat, and gently loosen the belly: which they perform by lubricating the passage, and softening the excrement.

  41. All the synovial membranes secrete a lubricating fluid, termed synovia, which enables the surfaces of the bones and ligaments to move freely upon one another.

  42. The membranes lining the closed cavities of the body, which secrete a watery, lubricating fluid.

  43. Reduced to powder, the softness and unctuosity of steatite have caused it to be used, in the same manner as plumbago, for lubricating purposes, and when finely ground it is employed for giving a surface to some kinds of paperhangings.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lubricating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anointment; emollient; lenitive; soothing; unction