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Example sentences for "pores"

Lexicographically close words:
porcupine; porcupines; pordo; pore; pored; porgies; porgy; poring; pork; porker
  1. The check roller is used for putting in the pores of oak and the dark streaks or lines in the hearts, and is used to best advantage in distemper.

  2. The iron worker knows that his body is superior, and no sour philosophy could stay in him, because he would sweat it out of his pores as he sweats out all other poisons.

  3. You can drink and smoke and eat anything, and all the poisons you take in are sweated out of your pores in this terrific labor, so that every night you come out as clean and lusty as a new-born child.

  4. It is, however, fortunate that heat keeps the pores of matter open and distended, and prevents the attraction of cohesion from squeezing us into a nut-shell.

  5. But you say that there is some reason to believe that water can penetrate even the pores of gold, and it cannot meet with a substance more dense?

  6. But surely there can be no pores in ivory and metals, Mrs. B.

  7. A hollow globe of gold was filled with water, and on its being submitted to great pressure, the water was seen to exude through the pores of the gold, which it covered with a fine dew.

  8. When rain falls on the surface of the earth, it continues making its way downwards through the pores and crevices in the ground.

  9. If water can pass through gold, there must certainly be pores or interstices which afford it a passage; and if gold is so porous, what must other bodies be, which are so much less dense than gold!

  10. Such, however, is the extreme minuteness of their particles, that by strong compression, they sometimes force their way through the pores of the substance which confines them.

  11. Cut it in rather thin slices, say a quarter of an inch thick; pour over it boiling water, which closes the pores of the meat, makes it impervious to the fat, and at the same time seals up the rich juice of the meat.

  12. That one should be cautious about entering a sick room in a state of perspiration, as the moment you become cool your pores absorb.

  13. The oven should be the hottest when the meat is put into it, in order to quickly crisp the surface and close the pores of the meat, thereby confining its natural juices.

  14. One very essential point in roasting beef is to have the oven well heated when the beef is first put in; this causes the pores to close up quickly, and prevents the escape of the juices.

  15. Besides, the little pores all over your skin have been pouring out perspiration all day long; and a great deal of this has been caught by your clothes, just as it is caught by the bedclothes while you sleep.

  16. The ridges are studded with minute pores which are the open mouths of the ducts of the somewhat deeply-seated glands, whose office is to secrete perspiration: Plate 10, n, is a good example of them.

  17. If a piece of flesh is sliced off, or if an ulcer has eaten so deeply as to obliterate the perspiratory glands, a white cicatrix, without pores or ridges, is the result (Fig.

  18. The distance between adjacent pores on the same ridge is, roughly speaking, about half that which separates the ridges.

  19. This also is due to a micro-organism, which gains entrance through the water-pores of the leaf, and subsequently passes into the vessels of the plants.

  20. The object of this proceeding is to remove air from the pores of the articles to be disinfected by the sudden expansion of the film of water previously condensed on their surface.

  21. The fact was that Dee and I had done about three times as much selling as the Pores usually accomplished.

  22. MY DEAR PAGE: I left England last week after having stopped with the Pores at Grantley Grange for ten days or so.

  23. Tweedles told me they rushed out in the night to purchase a paper every time an extra was called, fearing news of a disaster to the Lancaster, the old-fashioned wooden boat the Pores had taken.

  24. I have no doubt you have,” said Mrs. Merton; “the pores in some of the kinds of sponge are also quite large enough to be visible to the naked eye.

  25. But I think I have seen the pores in the coral.

  26. The pores of the skin should be kept open so that the kidneys will have less work to do.

  27. Keep patient properly covered, as he is weak from the strain and the pores are open.

  28. Yet I could not so much approve of these Things, as they were used; because they so much dilated the Pores of the olfactory Organs, as to give more Liberty for the pestilential Miasmata to pass in along with them.

  29. An indefinite quantity of sugar cannot be dissolved in a given quantity of liquid, because after a certain amount of sugar has been dissolved all the pores become filled, and there is no available molecular space.

  30. The pores of the wood are thus closed to the entrance of air and moisture, and decay is avoided.

  31. Other rocks, like limestone, are so readily soluble in water that from the small pores and cavities eaten out by the water, there may develop in long centuries, caves and caverns (Fig.

  32. This is because the pores soon become clogged with the impurities, and unless they are cleaned, the water which flows through the filter passes through a bed of impurities and becomes contaminated rather than purified.

  33. The plant makes use of the carbon but it rejects the oxygen, which passes back into the atmosphere through the pores of the leaves.

  34. If impure water filters through charcoal, it emerges pure, having left its impurities in the pores of the charcoal.

  35. The solid evidently has dissolved and has broken up into minute particles which are too small to be seen, but which have scattered themselves and lodged in the pores of the water, thus giving the water its rich color.

  36. It is made up of about six hundred hard, limy plates arranged in double rows, which contain about thirty-seven hundred pores through which the feet protrude.

  37. Section showing pores (p), with cilia of the cells extending into them.

  38. It is very light, and the pores are so fine that the sand does not enter them.

  39. But whatever may be the expense, it is indispensable in every family; and whenever the pores of the skin are obstructed, a vapor bathing apparatus is equally desirable.

  40. Through manipulation of the fleshy tissues, the blood is drawn to the surface of the body and in that way the elimination of morbid matter through the relaxed and opened pores of the skin is greatly facilitated.

  41. In the chilled portions of the skin the pores close, the blood recedes into the interior, and as a result of this the elimination of poisonous gases and exudates through these portions of the skin is suppressed.

  42. He breathes with the pores of the skin as well as with the lungs.

  43. They relaxed the pores and drew the blood into the surface, thus promoting heat radiation and the elimination of morbid matter through the skin.

  44. As the blood rushes back to the surface it suffuses the skin, opens and relaxes the pores and the minute blood vessels or capillaries and thus unloads its impurities through the skin.

  45. It accelerates the circulation, draws the blood into the surface, relaxes and opens the pores of the skin, promotes the elimination of morbid matter and increases and stimulates the electromagnetic energies in the body.

  46. In febrile conditions the pores and capillary blood vessels of the skin are tense and contracted.

  47. As they draw the blood into the surface and relax the minute blood vessels in the skin, the morbid materials in the blood are eliminated through the pores of the skin and absorbed by the packs.

  48. The capillary forces have been shown to be strong enough to hold the oil in the larger pores against the influence of gravity and circulation.

  49. Then he addressed the Brahmin in these words: "Brahmin, the fire that you have kindled is icy cold; it fails to heat the pores of the hair on my body.

  50. But the flame failed even to heat the pores or the hair on the body of the Wisdom Being, and it was as if he had entered a region of frost.

  51. In these the surface-pores are the extremities of very narrow tubes which perforate both layers of the body-wall and then communicate with wider tubes or spaces within, some of which are lined with the ciliated cells above described.

  52. If we place the live animal in a glass vessel of sea water, and examine it with a suitable magnifying power, we observe a number of minute pores scattered over its whole surface; and a much larger opening at the free end.

  53. It consists of a series of tubes, arranged in pairs in the successive segments, communicating with the body-cavity internally, and opening at the exterior by means of pores in the cuticle.

  54. If the sediment is then put under the microscope on a slip of glass, it will be seen to consist of grains of sand, of which there is always a considerable amount in the pores and cavities of a sponge, and the siliceous spicules.

  55. Pebble and prism powders do not give as good results, presumably because their action is so slow that some of the gases of explosion can escape through the pores of the earth.

  56. He regarded them as minute Cephalopods, whose chambers communicated by pores (foramina).

  57. In Astrorhiza the sand grains are loosely agglutinated, without mineral cement; they leave numerous pores for the exit of the protoplasm, and there are no true pylomes.

  58. By sizing the ends of the joints is meant thoroughly filling the end pores with glue, rubbing it into the pores with another block.

  59. Shellac is always preferred as a first coater for hard pine, as it keeps the resinous sap in the pores of the wood and preserves the natural colour of the grain.

  60. The coarse or open-grained woods require a filler with body enough to close up the pores of the wood and give that perfectly even surface necessary as a foundation for good finishing.

  61. This process, as its name indicates, fills the pores of the wood and protects them against the absorption of moisture and the consequent swelling.

  62. The beginning of the operation consists of long and persistent rubbing with pulverized pumice stone mixed with oil or with water, if the work is such that water would have no chance to soak into the pores of the wood.

  63. In his naked body, beginning to burn with fever from the long-clogged pores and insulated not at all by the film from the coolness of the room, the seeds of that soft explosion had been planted--and they would bear fruit!

  64. I can't last very long with this film sealing most of the pores of my body.

  65. His film-clogged pores could exude nothing; he had only the sensation of perspiring.

  66. The anthers open by pores at the extremity of the cells, as in Ericaceae.

  67. Now the fresh Year, reviving old Desires, The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires, Pores on this Club and That with anxious eye, And dreams of Rounds beyond the Rounds of Liars.

  68. By the sweating process, the twenty-eight miles of tubing which exist in the pores of the skin are effectually relieved; and--in Dr.

  69. Tubes or pores shallow, formed by a network of folds or wrinkles, plants thin, sometimes spread over the wood, and somewhat gelatinous, Merulius.

  70. Often the gills are forked near the stem or anastomose, or they are connected by veins which themselves anastomose in a reticulate fashion so that the meshes resemble the pores of certain species of the family Polyporaceæ.

  71. Tubes or pores not free, joined side by side, 1.

  72. The following key is not complete, but may aid in separating some of the larger plants: Tubes or pores free from each other, though standing closely side by side, Fistulina.

  73. Stevenson says that the gills do not form pores like those of P.

  74. Wash and remove the pores from the boleti.


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