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Example sentences for "onto"

Lexicographically close words:
ontel; onter; ontie; ontil; ontine; ontogenesis; ontogenetic; ontogenetically; ontogeny; ontologic
  1. He got 's eyes onto me, and they say when he got 's eyes onto feller never let go, you know.

  2. Awkwardly hanging onto the needler, Marley tugged at his sleeve while David calmly picked up a bottle of colorless liquid and filled his syringe.

  3. Trembling, David picked up a bottle, poured alcohol onto the rubber cap, and deftly filled the sterile syringe.

  4. Carelessly he dropped his lab coat onto the desk and reached for his jacket, then paused, listening.

  5. And if the Fairfield fellows expect to gain anything from thinking they're onto our signals, they're going to be badly surprised.

  6. I went out onto the rear platform for a last look at them.

  7. I made for the door to follow the Indian and catch the horses, out onto the hillside--and saw only half the valley.

  8. It was the colonel got onto them fust--recognised 'em for old friends of a right celebrated danger to civilisation which his name was Farrell.

  9. Sometimes persons accused of crime themselves, and actually under indictment, find their way onto the panels, and more than one ex-convict has appeared there in some inexplicable fashion.

  10. A drunken fellow staggered onto the floor and grabbed a girl.

  11. Using all his strength, he raised me further into the room, then he hurled me ruthlessly out onto the rocks outside.

  12. It was about evening when I came onto a fine large plain.

  13. With the aid of my crutch I unlatch one of the long windows and step out onto the terrace.

  14. He ground his teeth vindictively, and put an inch more onto his stride.

  15. With the aid of my crutch I unlatch one of the long windows, and step out onto the terrace.

  16. He went to the door and laid onto them so that they slunk away into the shadows.

  17. We lifted him onto a chair and put one of those clay-cold feet into the water.

  18. Down he came, and like a flash the whole pack piled onto him.

  19. A man in a greasy canvas suit with mucklucks on his feet had gone onto the floor.

  20. In reply to this amiable invitation we crossed an empty saloon surrounded with divans and passed out onto the loggia where the wool-merchant and his guests were seated.

  21. The sensation is attainable by any one who will take the trouble to row out into the harbour of Algeciras and scramble onto a little black boat headed across the straits.

  22. Presently we came out onto the lower edge of the meadow below our ship.

  23. I watched her drop onto Edith's shoulders, wind one hand viciously into the mammal's long blonde hair and guide the gross body into a shambling walk toward the meadow.

  24. He came out of the hatch last and was stepping onto the rowboat when Ned stopped him with a question: "Where are the papers?

  25. If any of the people on the Shark had come onto the island they certainly wouldn't be whistling to attract his attention.

  26. When filled the number is tabulated by the foreman and loaded onto the wagon and hauled to the packing shed.

  27. It is like putting an ox yoke onto a calf.

  28. On the side where the filled barrels are loaded onto the wagon there should be a raised platform so that the loading can be carefully and easily done.

  29. Here they are stacked up and afterwards emptied onto the sorting tables or machine grader, and from thence into the barrels.

  30. We have taken seed from our hardiest apples to grow our seedling roots; we have grafted Hibernal scions onto those roots, which is supposed to be the hardiest apple wood that we have.

  31. You can cover them with storm windows or cloth tacked onto frames.

  32. Mrs. Cadoo: Can you graft onto a Martha crab and have success with that?

  33. I have never seen an instance where the top of the tree put onto a Virginia crab outgrew the Virginia.

  34. You graft a McMahon onto a Virginia and instead of having the McMahon its usual color, you will get a very nice blush on it.

  35. On a steep face of the mountain, Barrent rolled boulders onto the machine, hoping he could start an avalanche.

  36. He threw up the window and stepped onto the lawn; the fresh dew was upon everything, and he stretched himself in the rays of the sun, and thanked God that he was alive.

  37. He shook himself, and little rivulets fell from his huge boots onto the floor.

  38. A sceneshifter had even stopped Fauchery's hat just when the devilish thing was going to bound onto the stage in the middle of the struggle.

  39. I slipped my arm onto my chest to raise it over my head.

  40. Outside the rain was increasing in violence, and throughout the sleepy little town one could hear the crashing of slates and chimney pots as they were dashed by the blast onto the pavements of the streets.

  41. The Arrow vanished into the night above and as suddenly reappeared, her forward tubes spewing red fire onto the Base below.

  42. The Arrow and the Hound drove off into space like furies leaving the spinning body of their sister ship behind, not waiting to watch her crash down onto the rocky face of Hyperion.

  43. When any one spoke of some impossible wish, they would say that it might be realized on the day that Gervaise started in business, in a beautiful shop opening onto the street.

  44. Big tears coursed down her cheeks and fell onto her bread.

  45. As he kept his pipe in his mouth, he turned round every now and then to spit onto the pavement.

  46. The press descended and the bolt flew out onto the ground, its head as round as though cast in a mold.

  47. These filthy animals got fatter and fatter, then they jumped onto the mattress and disappeared.

  48. When at length Bijard, running against a chair, stumbled onto the tiled floor, where they left him snoring, Pere Bru helped Gervaise to raise Madame Bijard.

  49. More coke had been put into the stove and the sunlight slanted in between the sheets onto the stove.

  50. In a corner of the laundry the pile of dead soldiers grew larger and larger, a veritable cemetery of bottles onto which other debris from the table was tossed.

  51. The high, arched doorway rose to the second floor and opened onto a deep porch, at the end of which could be seen the pale daylight of a courtyard.

  52. One only heard his body rebounding onto the matting, where the shock had sent him.

  53. Clemence was now very drunk and she burst into loud sobbing and placed her head down onto the table in an effort to smother her gasps.

  54. If you distract your mind it may get onto your game.

  55. And say, jest git onto our game, will you?

  56. I had bought a house in Megory and we moved it onto Orlean's claim.

  57. Cutting it into two parts, I loaded one part onto two wagons and started the sixty miles to the claim.

  58. Finally I ran onto an "Oklahoma" grafter by the name of Nunemaker.

  59. I was left-handed while she was right, and with our backs to the wagon we could make a heavy lift and when the hay was directly overhead we'd turn and face each other and over the load would go onto the wagon.

  60. At one place where I stopped over night, a little girl about nine years of age, looked at me with so much curiosity that I became amused, finally coaxing her onto my knee.

  61. Shortly after they moved onto the claims came one of the biggest snowstorms I had ever seen.

  62. At last he went home and Orlean and I got down to business, moving more of our goods onto the claim, and spending about one-third of the time there.

  63. I knew we were in for a big expense and lots of trouble, which I had feared, and had been working early and late to get through my work in Megory county and get onto her claim permanently.

  64. Years before Megory county was opened to settlement, many white men had drifted onto the reservation and had engaged in ranching, and had in the meantime married squaws.

  65. Then I would build and move onto my wife's homestead in Tipp county.

  66. Thieving outlaws kept up a continuous raid on the young cattle and colts, driving them onto the reservation, where they disappeared.

  67. For a hundred miles in every direction this band plundered, stole, and ran the cattle and horses onto the flats, where they were protected by the breaks of the creeks and rivers, referred to.

  68. After nearly an hour of watching, a great log was rolled onto the carriage, and glancing at his watch, the boss sawyer called an assistant and gave him charge of the saw.

  69. In this way, turn and turn about, they roll the log right up the skids and onto the car.

  70. I'm going out now, before they get onto the fact that we have had time to talk things over.

  71. The lumberjacks are experts in the use of the peavy stick, and it is a pretty sight to see them load a great trunk onto a flat car to be drawn away.

  72. Logs were rolled onto the carriage and sent down the plane, while the great circular saw bit its way through the length of the tree like a hot knife through a pat of butter.

  73. He was thinking cheerfully of the fresh meat when he came out onto the path from the village, a mile from Keeper's House.

  74. After a while, he returned, hung up the light again, and dropped onto a stool.

  75. He tossed the token-bag onto the mantel and went to the door, the dogs following and standing ready as he opened it.

  76. It's of finer stuff than the choir surpluses, and it hez got a cross worked onto it, and a pocket in it, too.

  77. While she paused, the night express backed onto the side track to await the coming of the eastbound train.

  78. He painted the surplus onto a man playin' on a orgin.

  79. One of the audience is invited onto the stage, where he is placed in an upright open [Illustration: Pepper's Ghost] coffin.

  80. A gas cock, H, is soldered onto tank A, as shown, from which the gas may be taken through a rubber tube.

  81. Pieces can be nailed onto the legs of the table to hold other slabs to serve as seats, and affording accommodation for several persons.

  82. Screw the lamp into the socket and screw the cover onto the jar, and you have a safe light of excellent illuminating power.

  83. Illustration: Detail of Telescope Construction] from the blaze will shine onto the glass.

  84. Screw a rubber handle onto the rubber strip to move the lever back and forth with.

  85. Hunt around and see if you can find a Constable that isn't onto this thing.

  86. He left her sewing white lace onto blue silk in a matchless tranquillity.

  87. When they stepped out onto the platform at Southfields, the big drops leaped up at them.

  88. She lurched to the French window that, thrown back against the wall, opened onto the little garden.

  89. Of a sudden, the panther emerges onto the road an' goes rackin' along the trail.

  90. What ef ye did tunk onto yer little head; little gals' skulls is yieldin' and sof'.

  91. So Columbus, he took one up and give her a tunk, pretty solid, deown onto the table.

  92. The pile of letters and papers which she had emptied onto the moulding table were red and glowing as the summer rose.

  93. His father, Deacon Keeler, didn't have a cent of money of his own; it fell onto Casper from his mother and aunt.

  94. Sister Sypher is so wrapped up in Deacon Sypher that she would embrace a buzz saw mill or any other enterprise he could bring to bear onto her.

  95. I see that the hull community wuz so sot on havin' them five deacons embark onto these buzz saws that they would not brook any interference, least of all from a female woman.

  96. And when they died, the aunt, bein' a maiden woman at the time, the money naturally fell onto Casper.


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