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Example sentences for "plate glass"

  • Plane glasses are ground upon a surface of pitch rendered plane by the pressure of a piece of plate glass upon it in its softened state.

  • The ordinary glass in use in this country, apart from specially prepared optical glass, may be either English flint glass, plate glass or Bohemian glass.

  • The requirements, in addition to the piece of rock of which we require a section, are a small square of plate glass, some Canada Balsam, emery powder of various grades and an unlimited stock of patience.

  • Taking our slab of plate glass, we fasten the polished side of our piece of rock to it by means of Canada Balsam, then we may rest for a few days while the Balsam sets.

  • When a good sharp outline of the arrow is obtained on the disc, a portion of the rays of light producing it may then be truly broken out or refracted by laying across the brass arrow a square bar of plate glass.

  • A thumb rule for calculating the cost of plate glass, which is not strictly accurate but which gives a general idea, is to calculate on from fifty to seventy-five cents per square foot.

  • The modern shape is round; though formerly certain glass-pots, called cuvettes, used in the purifying of plate glass, were square.

  • The value of plate glass made in England annually, including the rough kinds used for glazing roofs, &c.

  • The dining-table is of carved wood painted gray and covered with yellow damask, which in turn is covered with a sheet of plate glass.

  • The dressing-table is so simple that any girl might copy it--it is a chintz-hung box with a sheet of plate glass on top, and a white framed mirror hung above it.

  • The table is covered with a sheet of plate glass.

  • The table was covered with rose colored brocade, and over this, cobwebby lace, and over this, plate glass.

  • Do you mean to say they have to go through all that with every sheet of plate glass?

  • The butter refrigerator in the Agricultural Building was of triple-plate glass, and was 90 feet long.

  • The corn exhibit, consisting of samples of ten ears each, was displayed in a handsome case 4 by 12 feet, protected by plate glass.

  • The refrigerator which contained these exhibits had a glass front formed of three thicknesses of plate glass, with air spaces between.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both the; certain animals; commence firing; commonly used; could draw; divine appointment; external force; heavy iron; hole made; hour ago; independent power; international markets; moment after; moral value; most beautiful; muttered the; not known; plate armour; plate engraving; plate glass; plate number; plate printing; soon told; thick jungle; vital phenomena; warn them