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Example sentences for "placing the"

  • A composition is given coherence by placing the ideas in such an order that each naturally suggests the one which follows.

  • On placing the wires so that the iodide alone was subject to the action of the current (900.

  • This may be done bloodlessly by placing the patient on his back with the hip flexed to a right angle, and then gradually extending the knee until it is in a straight line with the thigh (Billroth).

  • This clinical point is best tested by placing the palm of the hand and fingers for a few seconds alternately over an uninflamed and an inflamed area, otherwise under similar conditions as to coverings and exposure.

  • The ends are approximated by placing the limb in an attitude which relaxes the muscle, and the position is maintained by bandages, splints, or special apparatus.

  • He should be instructed to take every possible opportunity of placing the limb in an elevated position, and must constantly wear a firm bandage of elastic webbing.

  • On placing the flame at some distance below the beam, the same dark masses stormed upwards.

  • Stokes, however, has taught us that this flow may be intercepted by placing the edge of a card in close proximity to one of the corners of the fork.

  • The temperature of the horse is determined roughly by placing the fingers in the mouth or between the thighs or by allowing the horse to exhale against the cheek or back of the hand.

  • The examination can be made much more satisfactory by placing the horse in a dark chamber and illuminating the eye by a lamp placed forward and outward from the eye which is to be examined.

  • If the horse is not too fat, one may feel the impact of the apex of the heart against the chest wall with each contraction of the heart by placing the hand on the left side back of the fifth rib and above the point of the elbow.

  • By auscultation, or placing the ear to the sides of the chest, unnatural sounds can now be heard.

  • The animal has some fever, which may be easily detected by means of a clinical thermometer inserted in the rectum or, roughly, by placing the finger in the mouth, as the feeling of heat conveyed to the finger will be greater than natural.

  • By placing the lotus in her ear, she meant to say this, 'I live in the realm of king Karnotpala.

  • The Brahmans seem to have desired to show their disapproval of it by placing the serpent-gods in the lower ranks of their mythology, (Lassen.

  • Ask the party again in which rank the card is, and take them up, placing the rank in which the card is between the two others.

  • Proceed in like manner with five more to a second party, and so on, five parties in all, placing the fives on the top of each other.

  • This is the most usual method of placing the guests at the dinner-table.

  • Pour the jelly into moulds which have been soaked in water; let it set, and turn it out by placing the mould in hot water for a minute; then wipe the outside, put a dish on the top, and turn it over quickly.

  • Mix all the ingredients thoroughly together, and heat the sauce gradually, by placing the vessel in which it is made in a saucepan of boiling water.

  • Other respiratory sounds are revealed by placing the ear to the side of the chest walls and listening to the sound of the lungs.

  • Here, sir, you will find it quite right," said the poor girl, placing the rouleau of gold in the hands of Malicorne.

  • The exercise is easy for the child, who habituates himself to placing the pieces in their frames without errors or false attempts.

  • The impossibility of placing the objects in order in the block in any other than their respective spaces gives this control.

  • The age of the child and the length of his limbs were considered in placing the seat at the right height.

  • But if he say either of the others, you take all the cards in your hand, placing the parcel he has named over the other two, and observing to put your little finger between that and the middle heap, at the top of which is the card he drew.

  • Put a small branch of the tree with its leaves, or part of a small plant, in a vessel of water, and, placing the vessel in the receiver, exhaust the air.

  • In placing the food on the dishes and platters care should be taken to make it look attractive.

  • In placing the flag at half mast, it should be raised first to full mast, and then lowered to the half mast position, from which it should again be raised to full mast before lowering.

  • As a soapy little baby is difficult to hold, support him firmly all the time he is kicking and splashing, by placing the arm or hand at the baby's back between its shoulders.

  • Pasteurized milk is milk which has been heated to 155° Fahrenheit, kept at that temperature for thirty minutes and cooled quickly by placing the bottles in cold running water.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "placing the" 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:
    above referred; but the moment after; could desire; dark complexion; employed himself; first meeting; good white; great hall; greater degree; inch howitzer; inscription found; laid siege; living together; might obtain; pass them; placing himself; placing the; placing them; seemed good; slavery people; sound philosophy; still the; thus spake; will move