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Example sentences for "operating"

Lexicographically close words:
operas; operate; operated; operates; operatic; operatio; operation; operational; operationem; operationes
  1. Those surgeons of greater dexterity or savagery, I can't tell which, prided themselves in operating on the more difficult cases.

  2. Operating for this disease will fall into disrepute in time, for there are already cases recurring and the second and third operation will be necessary among those who survived the first.

  3. The same cause, operating less effectively, gives a characteristic gray appearance with hazy edges to silhouettes passing just beneath the limits of sharp focus.

  4. Although the forces associated with an ordinary low-pressure area are by no means as intense as those associated with a tropical hurricane, the forces operating are much the same.

  5. Although several hundred stations operating simultaneously would surely yield more definite results, the telescopic observations in 1948 offer a splendid opportunity to test the theory on a continental scale.

  6. Unfortunately, only a few stations were operating in March and thus adequate comparisons are impossible; but the indications are that, in March, migration activity on the western edges of the Gulf is slight.

  7. I shouldn't wonder if this principle were introduced before long in the operating of railroads.

  8. The operating staff had been steadily at it since eleven the night before.

  9. She didn't consent until she knew that he had made that one of the conditions of his coming here; he stipulated that he must be allowed to bring his own anesthetist, operate without an assistant, and choose his own operating nurse.

  10. Galusha smiled painfully--as the man in the operating chair smiles at the dentist's jokes.

  11. The officers, employes, and laborers of such company shall be protected in the discharge of their duties while building or operating said road through the nation and at all times shall be subject to the Indian intercourse laws.

  12. It is but too plain that, for several years past, the power of the Executive has been exerted on the side of their oppressors and is co-operating with them in the work of destruction.

  13. Because without the exertion of a co-operating power in the mind of the Reader, there can be no adequate sympathy with either of these emotions: without this auxiliary impulse, elevated or profound passion cannot exist.

  14. In one day there were five ships being brought into better operating condition--for ultimate futility--because of what he'd brought.

  15. And a single dead man found near the operating demonstrator.

  16. It was a mistaken impression among those at home, that each medical officer was the operating surgeon for his own men.

  17. Surgeons, with never tiring energy, are ministering to their wants, giving them food, dressing their wounds or standing at the operating table removing the shattered fragments of limbs.

  18. Sheridan, who had, since the commencement of the spring campaign, commanded the cavalry corps of the Army of the Potomac, was to take command of all the forces operating against Early.

  19. All day yesterday I worked at the operating table.

  20. The operating rooms, kitchens, wards, rooms for operating by Roentgen rays, and even a chapel have been installed.

  21. To do so, it must contain within itself both the operating cause and the resulting effect, which is at once an incongruent and conflictive judgment.

  22. Life, therefore, whether as a blind or intelligent force or agency, must precede its own manifestation; that is, must exist as an operating cause before there is any produced effect.

  23. But whatever operates to produce a life-manifestation must precede it as an operating cause.

  24. Cause is that which operates to produce an effect, as effect is that which is produced by an operating cause.

  25. I was placed on the operating table and the bullet located and removed.

  26. We're all right so far," he said; "and from what I can hear of things it seems that these beastly submarines are operating quite a bit to the northward of our track.

  27. Thus, the man who has developed his muscles and hardened his hands working in a smithy, renders himself incapable of becoming a violin-player or an operating oculist.

  28. No matter what the influence of the forces operating in the opposite direction may be, the price of wheat depends most largely on the result of the last crop.

  29. We have here again to note the ability for gigantic effect which a small but continually operating cause may have, provided it always tends in the same direction.

  30. The main operating power of this mill is of course derived from the sun, for it is the sun which brings up the rains to nourish the rivers, it is the sun which raises the wind which lashes the waves against the shore.

  31. About the time that Burke and Hare were operating with so much effect among the waifs of Edinburgh, an incident of a somewhat amusing kind occurred at this place.

  32. Fowler's establishment for the insane in Scotland, throw any light on the particular management of such persons, although it profess the purest and most dignified humanity, successfully operating on the moral treatment of madness?

  33. The feeling of the general principles of human nature, operating in particular circumstances, is always intense, and uppermost in his mind; and he makes use of incident and situation only to bring out character.

  34. By operating in parallel on the high tension side only, any generator can be run with any transformer.

  35. The connections for operating alternators in parallel are shown in fig.

  36. Governors for the larger turbines, particularly those of the combination impulse and reaction double, or single double flow type, employ an oil relay mechanism, as shown in the figure, for operating the steam valves.

  37. On the other hand, by subjecting the secondaries to the full secondary voltage, the iron of the transformer will be magnetized as under its regular operating conditions, and the full iron loss of the transformer introduced.

  38. Always set the clutch operating lever in the position as shown in fig.

  39. Photograph of an operating tangential water wheel equipped with Pelton buckets.

  40. The shutter operating mechanism is arranged so as to hold the shutter open during exactly one revolution of the film drum.

  41. In the Westinghouse designs, the operating valve, A is connected not only to the governor, but also to a vibrator, which gives it a slight but continuous reciprocating motion, while the governor controls its mean position.

  42. One is driven as a motor and runs slightly below synchronism, due to its slip when operating with load.

  43. In a few moments the body of a dead horse was dragged into the operating room and Dr.

  44. With a scalpel and a delicate pair of tweezers he carefully separated from the lung tissue a tiny speck of crystalline substance which glittered under the red light in the operating room.

  45. Have all lights taken out of the operating room and the windows shaded.

  46. The worst of it all was that Mr. Marraville's failure to expire on the operating table forever deprived them of the privilege of saying, invidiously, that young Doctor Thorpe had been called in as the last resort.

  47. When I gave it, I was morally certain that Mr. Thorpe was to die on the operating table.

  48. You think he would die on the operating table?

  49. There was a young doctor up there in the operating room.

  50. Your grandfather knew when he went up to the operating room that he was not to leave it alive.

  51. Whence it plainly follows that it is immediately some contiguous substance, which, operating on the eye, occasions a perception of colours: and such is light.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "operating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acting; active; direction; functional; functioning; going; moving; ongoing; operating; operation; operational; performing; practicing; running; serviceable; serving; working