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Example sentences for "operators"

Lexicographically close words:
operations; operative; operatively; operatives; operator; operatur; operatus; opercula; opercular; operculated
  1. Jack Kinnison jibed; and from his viewpoint his idea was the more valid, for the wholesalers were very clever operators indeed.

  2. It was your thought that some thousands--perhaps five--of spy-ray operators and other operatives will be required to insure that the Grand Rally will not be marred by episodes of violence.

  3. Some operators wait until fluid passes from the mouth before taking steps to stop the hemorrhage due to the injection of fluid.

  4. The use of the femoral vein is considered by some operators a very good method.

  5. The cadets took possession of the station and under their protection the telephone operators began to oppose the Soviet.

  6. The telephone operators refused to connect us, while our messages were either held up or distorted in the telegraph offices.

  7. An inquiry sent by wireless to the other stations remained unanswered, because these were already in the hands of the Japanese, whose operators were not quick-witted enough to send back a reassuring answer.

  8. Our wireless operators not only received the news of friends, but also the messages of enemies.

  9. But these attempts were unsuccessful, for our wireless operators had no difficulty in recognizing the "spark" of the German instruments.

  10. For several days afterward the radio operators could hear German submarines calling across the void to the U-53, but there was no answer to their call.

  11. The steamer was the Amber Witch, commanded by Captain Bishop, and the staff of operators were under Mr Harry Mance.

  12. There all was quiet and orderly; the operators placidly pursuing their labours, working out their calculations, or watching the tell-tale spot of light on the scale, and all looking up in silent surprise at the sudden hubbub round their door.

  13. Sometimes from storms, sometimes from the assassination of the operators in wild districts, through which the land wires pass, and sometimes from the destruction of lines out of pure mischief, the telegraph is often beaten by the mail.

  14. Camp of military telegraph operators at headquarters Army of Potomac, August, 1864, =S.

  15. Great responsibility rested upon the operators who halted alongside the road to send a message back to headquarters that might change the whole course of events and defeat into victory.

  16. The operators in the Civil War stood by their posts like sentinels.

  17. Mr. Johann Olsen of Hartford, who was one of the first operators of the old wet-plate process used by Brady, personally examined many of the negatives in storage in Washington and stated that some action should be taken immediately.

  18. One great drawback to the growth of manufactures in Russia is the number of feast days, on which the native operators must one and all abandon their work, regardless of consequences.

  19. But the cable operators were pleasing and intelligent young gentlemen, and I had no difficulty in making them understand how the work was to be done.

  20. Then how can you get the connections all made from one end of the line to the other, at the same moment, if your operators cannot talk to one another?

  21. The other was a young man who had gone stranded in Reno and whom I had known slightly in Goldfield as one of the boldest operators in that roaring camp.

  22. These operators wait two or three weeks after the spawn has been planted to soil it.

  23. Some operators give no further attention to the beds after soiling, other than to water the beds, if that becomes necessary.

  24. While some operators after soiling the bed give no further care to it until the bed is bearing, others cover the beds with some litter, in the form of straw or excelsior.

  25. These strategies produce educated operators as training itself becomes a product, offered by training companies whose list of clients includes fast food chains, nuclear energy producers, frozen storage facilities, the U.

  26. This reference is echoed today in the use of non-English speaking operators to key-in texts, i.

  27. It is a sort of machinery, with division of labor, and appliances, that enable the operators to turn out immense numbers.

  28. Some operators prefer very early in the season, as in February, and others wait until the leaves have appeared upon the vine to be grafted.

  29. While Edison was in Cincinnati a delegation of five union operators went over from Cleveland to form a local branch, and the occasion was one of great conviviality.

  30. I had picked the best operators in New York, and they were familiar with the apparatus.

  31. For example, one of the operators in the Cincinnati office was George Ellsworth, who was telegrapher for Morgan, the famous Southern Guerrilla, and was with him when he made his raid into Ohio and was captured near the Pennsylvania line.

  32. Edison's accounts of the sprees and debauches of other night operators in the loosely managed offices enable one to understand how even a little steady application to the work in hand would be appreciated.

  33. The Cincinnati office, as a central point, appears to have been attractive to many of the clever young operators who graduated from it to positions of larger responsibility.

  34. Hence, if vacancies occur, there are plenty of operators available, and salaries have remained so low as to lead to one or two formidable and costly strikes that unfortunately took no account of the economic conditions of demand and supply.

  35. In the Boston telegraph office at that time, as perhaps at others, there were operators studying to enter college; possibly some were already in attendance at Harvard University.

  36. The working efficiency of the quadruplex, therefore, with the apparatus in good working condition, depends entirely upon the skill of the operators employed to operate it.

  37. About fifteen hundred of the best operators in the country were at the front on the Federal side alone, and several hundred more had enlisted.

  38. It was in this way Edison made his way south as far as Memphis, Tennessee, where the telegraph service at that time was under military law, although the operators received $125 a month.

  39. This was probably a unique achievement in itself among railway operators of that day or of later times.

  40. They had the notion of taking positions in the Brazilian Government telegraphs, as an advertisement had been inserted in some paper stating that operators were wanted.

  41. I was in a much better position than most operators to call on my imagination to supply missing words or sentences, which were frequent in those days of old, rotten wires, badly insulated, especially on stormy nights.

  42. It appears telegraph operators have a way of talking together over the wire, knowing little about each other, and nothing at all of their mutual personal appearance.

  43. The division in charge of our own communications, the assignment of ultrophone frequencies and strengths, and the maintenance of operators and equipment, I called "Communications.

  44. Before this is accomplished, the operators have generally to go five or six times over their work.

  45. You'd be surprised how many big Wall Street operators go for that guff.

  46. The big-time operators would be shivering in their boots.

  47. You see, we got to take care of the Senate so they'll vote to confirm you and there are some operators up there what won't vote for nothing 'cept they get taken care of first.

  48. Mr. Wasson and Mr. Cone pulled out just right, before the big operators decided they must be patriotic and support quotations before you made too much money.

  49. Those operators told that St. Louis cotton-factor I was a Confederate bearer of dispatches," said he, in winding up his story.

  50. And then he went on to tell the captain how it happened that he came to Missouri alone, not forgetting to mention how he had fooled the telegraph operators at Baton Rouge and Mooreville.

  51. It's one of the operators Randolph set to watch me," he whispered to his father.

  52. The operator, who seemed to take a deeper interest in this dispatch and the sender than operators usually take in such things, named the price and gazed curiously at Rodney as the latter brought out his purse and looked for the money.

  53. I hope that second dispatch did not put your father to any trouble, but I was obliged to send it to throw those telegraph operators off my track and blind them to my real intentions.

  54. Your operators can't use the wire much tonight.

  55. The telegraph wires ran into the temporary station building at Lineville, and the several operators along the line were busy carrying orders through the length of the wire service.

  56. Women Telephone Operators are a large and rapidly growing class, recruited entirely by nomination followed by a qualifying examination.

  57. Success attended his efforts as a wheat grower and he became one of the extensive operators of the wheat belt, acquiring large holdings which he still retains.

  58. He now owns ten thousand acres devoted to the raising of sheep and is one of the largest operators in that line of activity in this part of Washington.

  59. He was connected with the conduct of this business for about three years and then turned his attention to farming on the Eureka Flats, becoming one of the large operators on the flats.

  60. The British consul having given his consent to the operators returning to the city, messengers were sent to El Caney to learn if the men would go.

  61. Under instructions of the company, he said, operators must take their orders from the captain of the ship on which they are employed.

  62. That was why he was particularly glad for the narratives of such important witnesses as the operators to receive publication, regardless of the papers that published them.

  63. The practice of allowing wireless operators to sell their stories should be stopped.

  64. Do the regulations prescribe whether one or two operators should be aboard the ocean vessels?

  65. Yes; but ship-owners don't like to carry two operators when they can get along with one.

  66. The operators were also assigned to particular headquarters, and never changed except by special orders.


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