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Example sentences for "moulding"

Lexicographically close words:
moulder; mouldered; mouldering; moulders; mouldiness; mouldings; moulds; mouldy; moullah; moult
  1. COR'NICE-RING, a ring or moulding on a cannon next below the muzzle-ring.

  2. The chevron moulding remains in this aisle for seven bays, after which (until the last bay but one) the marks of it are clearly to be seen.

  3. Above the arcade was originally a string of chevron moulding running along the whole length of the aisle; but this has been hacked off, except beneath the most eastern window.

  4. Nature seemed to have perfected its work in moulding the form and features of the handsome squaw.

  5. What an all-important factor in the moulding of the days to come would have been an unqualified, unmitigated, unreserved embrace--even before the cabman!

  6. Now, this little provincialism, or scrap of folklore, had its share in moulding events.

  7. By moulding the concrete into what are called "bag-blocks.

  8. The moulding Creative hand and the plastic clay are still as distinct, as when the gauntlet was first flung down by proud ambitious constructive science.

  9. The underlying earth was removed, and replaced with spent moulding sand, leaving trenches for the floor timbers, which were placed upon bricks laid without mortar.

  10. In its secondary political sense liberty is the living influence of the citizen on the State in the direction of moulding or deflecting it.

  11. In this primary matter, the moulding of the landscape, the creation of a mode of life, the people are utterly impotent.

  12. We feel that great events are being enacted; that greater still are in preparation; and we long for an epic, a world-moulding epic, to imbody and depict them.

  13. Anton looked admiringly at the exquisite moulding of the arches, from which, however, time had worn off many a fragment that encumbered the pavement.

  14. At such a time, when the strongest political feelings agitate the life of every individual, that spirit of cheerful tranquillity, so needful to an author for the artistic moulding of his creations, readily forsakes his writing-table.

  15. The top of this finial has been cut down to a level with the window ledge, and the face of the moulding hacked off to make the wall flat for the panelling, which has now been removed.

  16. Foliage, instead of a head, occupies the centre and end panels on the sides; and very delicate foliage is worked on a little roll moulding extant at two of the angles.

  17. At the time when it was refitted, a handsome ogival arch was found in the wall near the north end of the altar: the moulding is deeply recessed, and once the arch terminated in what must have been an ornate finial.

  18. The effect of the rhetorical character of Roman education in moulding the temper and ideals of the upper classes, down to the very end of the Western Empire, has hardly yet been fully recognised.

  19. The whole duty, the sole blessedness of man, lie in bringing his will into conformity with the Eternal Reason, and in moulding this brief mundane life into a slight counterpart of the order of the mighty world.

  20. The Orphic and Pythagorean mysticism which traced itself to Egypt or the remoter East, returned to its sources, to aid in moulding the cults of Egypt into a worship for the world.

  21. The relative influence of Babylon and ancient Iran in moulding the theology of Mithraism, has long been a subject of controversy.

  22. And the Augustan age had, in a single generation, performed miracles, under Greek inspiration, in moulding the Latin tongue to be the apt vehicle of every mood of poetic feeling.

  23. Of course, to the very end, the common superstitious devotion of the masses was probably little influenced by the great spiritual movement which, in the higher strata, was moulding heathen faith into an approach to monotheism.

  24. In the western side is a narrow doorway, contained by two square shafts with very simple capitals, and having a triangular head with an equally simple moulding by way of drip-stone.

  25. That first impressions have no small influence in moulding the opinions of most people can scarcely be denied; and therefore in our estimate of the architectural value of a church the door is an element of some importance.

  26. A double row of cable moulding decorates it.

  27. So, in filial and parental affection, which is piety in an elementary form, there is a moulding of will and emotion, a check to irresponsible initiative, in obedience to the facts of animal reproduction.

  28. Immitigable strength is in the moulding of this limestone, and sharp, clear definiteness marks yon clothing of scant brushwood where the fearless goats are browsing.

  29. To return again to the list, the next two applications, picture frame manufacturers and moulding manufacturers, are very similar.

  30. In moulding a head, do you take a lump and fine it down, or do you dab on the features after the main knob of it is shaped?

  31. Some rash person states that he is moulding an Apollo, or a vase, or a bust of Mr. Gladstone, or an elephant, or some such animal.

  32. For really the sensations of moulding this plastic matter into shape are wonderfully and quite unaccountably pleasing.

  33. That is the golden period to learn the "form of sound words," that shall exert a moulding influence upon the entire life.

  34. Many of them, as early settlers in New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Virginia, exerted a considerable influence, in moulding the character of the American people.

  35. Beneath this stone he would find thirteen grains of moulding corn and some goat's hair.

  36. Weigh out a pound of butter, cut it into thin slices, and roll it out thin as possible on a moulding board; in order to do this a great deal of flour should be sprinkled on the board and butter, and rubbed on the rolling pin.

  37. Lay the cake on a moulding board, and if you cannot roll it out without its sticking to the rolling pin, more flour should be added.

  38. When lukewarm put in a cup of yeast, a table spoonful of salt, set it in a warm place to rise, when light knead in flour till stiff enough to mould up, then let it stand till risen again, before moulding it up.

  39. Instead of our best endeavours being left at the mercy of an undetermined "will," they take their place as part of the determining influences that are moulding human nature.

  40. Its unfettered exercise supplies the only freedom he is capable of realising, as it constitutes the source of his influence as a link in the causative process of determining his own destiny and moulding that of his successors.

  41. If we say, then, that a man is master of his own character, or that a man may mould his own character, we do not imply the existence of an independent entity moulding or mastering something else.

  42. To judge from the portions yet remaining, the building must have been severely plain; not a moulding softens down the rugged edges in those parts which are still as Remigius left them.

  43. Instead of considering the physical condition of a nation determining its moral character, we must always regard the moral as determining, as well as moulding and modifying, the physical.


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