Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "opposite ends"

  • A shaft, windlass, or roller, worked by levers at opposite ends, as in the copperplate printing press.

  • The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field.

  • With only one transmission circuit per pole line, one wire is usually placed at the top of the pole and the other two wires at opposite ends of the single cross-arm.

  • On the first pole line erected for power transmission from Niagara Falls to Buffalo, two guard wires were strung at opposite ends of the top cross-arm on guard irons there located.

  • If two persons each pull one hundred pounds on opposite ends of a rope, what will be the strain on the rope?

  • The supply port is in the middle, the other ports lead to opposite ends of the cylinder.

  • The piston rods of the two cylinders are connected with cranks placed on opposite ends of the shaft, C, at right angles to each other.

  • A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.

  • The players are divided into two equal parties, each party having a home marked off at opposite ends of the playground, with a long neutral space between.

  • The ground is marked off with two goals at opposite ends by parallel lines drawn entirely across it.

  • The main part of playground neutral territory, with home goals for the opposing parties at opposite ends, with prisons in, near, or attached to them.

  • It is advisable to have these homes widely separated, as at opposite ends of the playground.

  • They pull at opposite ends of a long bamboo, and if the bamboo breaks or the side which represents the people at home is obliged to let go, the omen is favourable.

  • Next a very large pole or bamboo is similarly laid across the stream, and the people divide themselves into two parties, one on each side of the stream, and pull against each other at opposite ends of the pole.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "opposite ends" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been engaged; calcined magnesia; different soils; early stages; exclusive trade; first appearance; good large; half step; inner circle; leaving home; light soil; more frequently; opposite direction; opposite directions; opposite ends; opposite leaves; opposite page; opposite side; opposite sides; partial vacuum; past events; perfect faith; senile dementia; straight course; that question; well cooked