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Example sentences for "magazines"

Lexicographically close words:
maestre; maestro; maestros; mag; magazine; mage; magenta; maggior; maggot; maggots
  1. The chemise-style bathing dress of black taffeta or satin still appeared in the fashion magazines (fig.

  2. During the last half of the 19th century women frequently made their own bathing dresses with the aid of paper pattern supplements that appeared in women's magazines of the period.

  3. Women's magazines in the United States from the third quarter of the 19th century show illustrations of bathing costume, but in many instances these publications used European fashion plates.

  4. Generally speaking, 19th century women's magazines were mere disseminators of fine and decorous ideas and practices for well-mannered ladies; their editors were not innovators.

  5. This type of bathing costume, which was primarily a bifurcated garment instead of a skirted one, became the prevailing fashion as reported in English women's magazines of the 1860s.

  6. The growing numbers of women who wanted swimming suits, however, had only to turn to the advertising sections of these same magazines to find that even in 1915 such shops as Bonwit Teller & Co.

  7. The result of the struggle between the fancy bathing suit and the plain knitted suit became obvious even in the popular magazines of the period.

  8. With such an editorial policy it is understandable that these magazines would not, as a rule, publicize trends of popular origin until they were fairly well established.

  9. All of this has been told over and over and over again in the newspapers and magazines during the last few years; the only difference lies in the names and the dates and the place.

  10. How to Make a Magazine Clamp [435] This device as shown in the illustration can be used to hold newspapers and magazines while reading.

  11. Illustration: Magazine Binder Complete] With backs and edges of magazines even, place in a vise and set up tight allowing 3/4 in.

  12. I bind my magazines at home evenings, with good results.

  13. When fixed this way your magazines make one of the most valuable volumes you can possibly add to your library of mechanical books.

  14. How to Bind Magazines [56] An easy way to bind Popular Mechanics in volumes of six months each is to arrange the magazines in order and tie them securely both ways with a strong cord.

  15. How to Bind Magazines [40] A great many readers of Popular Mechanics Magazine save their copies and have them bound in book form and some keep them without binding.

  16. The piece, A, may be slotted wide enough to insert two or three magazines and made long enough to hold several newspapers.

  17. With a sharp saw cut a slit in the magazines and wood strips about 1/2 in.

  18. He had made these two towns his two great depôts, where immense magazines were established.

  19. But upon Maret replying, by showing him a statement of the immense magazines collected at Wilna, he exclaimed, "that he gave him fresh life!

  20. Other misfortunes followed: several convoys were intercepted, magazines taken, and a drove of eight hundred oxen had just been carried off from Krasnoë.

  21. A chain of other magazines had been formed from Smolensk to Minsk and Wilna.

  22. D'Hilliers was to occupy Elnia, and to form magazines at that place.

  23. The Russians, however, were living in plenty; our magazines at Smorgoni and Wilna had not been destroyed, and they must have found besides immense quantities of provisions in the pursuit of our routed army.

  24. The provision-waggons were to take in their loading at the magazines established on the Vistula.

  25. At the village of Stabroek, Count Mansfeld was encamped with the greatest part of his army, and by means of this very Cowenstein dam kept open the communication with the bridge, the headquarters, and the Spanish magazines at Calloo.

  26. The magazines lapping over each other in two long lines, he straightened them with little pats.

  27. Having straightened the lines of magazines to the last fraction of an inch he found a further excuse for lingering by moving back into their accustomed places the chairs which had been disarranged.

  28. The important service of destroying the ships and magazines had been mainly entrusted to Captain Sir Sidney Smith, who performed his difficult task with wonderful precision and order, and without the loss of one man.

  29. Shots and shells were plunged into the very arsenal, and trains were laid up to the magazines and storehouses; a fire-ship was towed into the basin, and in a few hours gave out flames and shot, accompanied by terrible explosions.

  30. The women who discuss these questions, in magazines they edit and mostly write themselves, said that his arguments were all conducted from the man's point of view, and were most reprehensible.

  31. She has access to a library of 1300 volumes, to the leading papers and reviews, and to magazines in four languages.

  32. In the first place, you do not see piles of magazines and papers or of library books in a German drawing-room.

  33. A specimen set of our magazines will be sent to any boy or girl wishing sample copies to show, on receipt of ten cents in stamps.

  34. Merriest and Wisest of all magazines for young folks is [Illustration: WiDE AWAKE] with a thousand quarto pages a year of literature by best authors, and half a thousand pictures by best artists.

  35. Subscriptions to the Magazines given as Premiums.

  36. TWO= NEW subscriptions to above magazines (at $1.

  37. I try hard to keep the magazines clean, but they are read over and over again, and the pictures inspected with ever new delight; and they are in danger of being worn to tatters.

  38. Bound volumes of all the magazines for previous years can be supplied.

  39. The premiums are given only to subscribers to any of our magazines, with this exception: =ANY= person may work for the premiums by sending one more subscriber to any of the magazines than the premium calls for.

  40. Three shelves of unpainted wood stood against the wall, facing the door, and each shelf was compactly filled with well-bound books, and on the top rested a dozen magazines and papers.

  41. You have read a partial description of the home of the hermit,--the most surprising feature of which was the well-thumbed volumes of scientific and scholarly works, in addition to several high class magazines and publications.

  42. As long as the provision magazines were well filled, the citadel was strong.

  43. I have ambitions of my own, but I don't expect to work them out through the magazines of this town; maybe not of this country.

  44. He did the illustrations for one of Kipling's fast express stories which one of the magazines published, and came back flushed and ready to try hard for a membership in the American Water-Color Society.

  45. I had a number of current magazines I wished to examine; he was always wishing to compose something, to express that ebullient and emotional soul of his in some way.

  46. Her boy certainly would never be a financier to be attacked in magazines and books.

  47. They would have to go down in their pockets, he supposed, and then these yellow newspapers and these yellow magazines that were barking at their heels would let them go.

  48. There were four gates and as many courts to be passed before we came to the royal apartments, and in some of these outer courts are kept the king's magazines of rifles and cannon.

  49. In the king's magazines are to be found numerous cannon, and a quantity of small arms, while his guards consist of a thousand men.

  50. This kind of perfection of the novelist's art, in these days when stories are written to pass through magazines and newspapers, seemed impossible till 'Aylwin' appeared.

  51. I should like to see files of the magazines published by Adult Fiction, Earth, if you please.

  52. John, don't you read the magazines any more?

  53. Yes, until 1881; and I have had some sort of close relation with magazines ever since.

  54. Many a successful short story and poem passes through the ‘reading’ department of a half-dozen magazines and weeklies without having its merit discovered until a seventh editor accepts it.

  55. Papers and magazines were said to supply this excellent tonic.

  56. Those batteries are not finished, but two guns, 10-inch columbiads, were in position, one only being ready for service and the magazines not yet built.

  57. The men worked night after night transferring the contents of the magazines to safer places, preparing much of the munitions for shipment to the city, and building new works from the débris.

  58. Magazines and papers fell from the hands which held them, and the usual quiet of the room was broken by a buzz of astonishment.

  59. About twenty boys were seated at the various desks and tables, all occupied with games of chess or draughts, or in the perusal of magazines and papers.

  60. I have, glory to God, as I wrote to your Lordship, rice in the magazines to last until the end of next April, with the precautions that I am taking, making use of that which came from Macasar.

  61. Item: The royal magazines have very few muskets and arquebuses for the defense of that kingdom.

  62. Books and magazines must not discuss, however seriously, the problems of life.

  63. But the day came when they lamented that the granaries had not been twice the size, and the magazines three times bigger, for a month before the surrender of the town food was hardly to be had, and ammunition had almost failed them.

  64. Still, in order not to be caught unawares, the Grand Master heightened the walls and deepened the trenches beyond them while he filled the storehouses with food, and the magazines with powder.

  65. Pondicherry was a very strong place and the walls which were not washed by the sea were thoroughly fortified and defended by guns, while the magazines contained ample supplies both of food and powder.

  66. Pictures and pencils, pens and writing paper; magazines and illustrated new prints.

  67. They have a variety of papers and magazines and maps; and the stock of books and pictures is large and excellent.

  68. He read the magazines about himself, and pored over portraits of himself published therein until he was unable to associate his identity with those portraits.

  69. You can read the magazines for a thousand years and you won't find the value of one line of Keats.

  70. Martin told him that his hatred of the magazines was rabid, fanatical, and that his conduct was a thousand times more despicable than that of the youth who burned the temple of Diana at Ephesus.

  71. He toiled on till dark, when he went out to the reading-room and explored magazines and weeklies until the place closed at ten o'clock.

  72. He was cheered to read in Book News, in a paragraph on the payment of magazine writers, not that Rudyard Kipling received a dollar per word, but that the minimum rate paid by first-class magazines was two cents a word.

  73. The one critic in the United States had pronounced favorably on the poem, while his own contention that good stuff could find its way into the magazines had proved correct.

  74. He anchored his faith to that, and was confident that the really first-class magazines would pay an unknown writer at least an equal rate, if not a better one.

  75. I read your 'Ring of Bells' in one of the magazines quite a time ago," he said.

  76. The first-class magazines did not pay on acceptance, and they paid well.

  77. When he recovered them, he sent them to the magazines in the East, from which they were returned more promptly, accompanied always by the printed rejection slips.

  78. Was it because the editors of the magazines were commonplace?

  79. He believed he could find magazine publication for it, and he felt that recognition by the magazines would commend him to the book-publishing houses.

  80. So it was that he entered abruptly upon a lean period, wherein he continued selling his earlier efforts to publications that would not pay and submitting his later work to magazines that would not buy.

  81. The comic weeklies returned his jokes and humorous verse, and the light society verse he wrote for the large magazines found no abiding-place.


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