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Example sentences for "present the"

  • From the editor's long practical experience in the Heliographic Science, he will be enabled to present the subject in a plain, clear, and concise manner.

  • The silicon and carbon are slowly burned away, and when a test shows that the desired percentage of carbon is present the steel is run out of the furnace.

  • They have endeavored to present the subject in a clear, well-graded way, passing in a natural and logical manner from principles which are readily understood to those which are more difficult to grasp.

  • Defn: To present again; as, to re-present the points of an argument.

  • Erecting eyepiece, an eyepiece used in telescopes for viewing terrestrial objects, consisting of three, or usually four, lenses, so arranged as to present the image of the object viewed in an erect position.

  • So ladies in romance assist their knight, Present the spear, and arm him for the fight.

  • The editor's object is to present the book in a form suitable for school reading.

  • At present the environs of Laura Place seem to be his [my father's] choice.

  • In the morning Lady Willoughby is to present the colours to some corps, or Yeomanry, or other, in the Crescent.

  • The alphabet may have originated as Dr Evans thinks, but at present the proof is not conclusive.

  • The ash of seaweeds, known in Scotland as kelp, and in Brittany as varec, was formerly used as a source of iodine to a greater extent than is at present the case.

  • Miss Anthony, Mrs. Catt, Mrs. Upton and Miss Blackwell were made a committee to present the matter to President Roosevelt.

  • Mrs. McCormick then called on Mrs. Funk to present the Shafroth-Palmer Amendment, which had been introduced in the House by A.

  • Its position was upon the coast at the edge of the vast plain called at present the "Sahel of SoĆ»sa," which is sandy, but immensely productive of olive oil.

  • When about to present the illusion, you take the top plate in the left hand, and the basin in the right, fingers inside and thumb out.

  • When about to present the trick, come forward with the case containing a solid ball in the left breast pocket, and the other solid ball under the left armpit.

  • Make a paper cone to fit over the glass and you are ready to present the illusion.

  • At present the question is under discussion whether the amyloid degeneration may affect cells of the most varied character, or whether it is limited to those of connective tissues.

  • When a stone is present the {165} stream may flow naturally for a time and then suddenly cease from obstruction at the outlet of the bladder.

  • The secondary nodules, whatever may be their method of origin, present the peculiarities of the primitive growth.

  • At present the handmill is rarely used in Syria for grinding wheat into flour, which is now ground by the regular old-fashioned, {402} waterwheel flouring mills.

  • Apparently the Israelites had wooden kneading-troughs such as at present the Arabs in the interior of Syria still use.

  • At present the term hurmat is more extensively used in such cases in Syria.

  • As soon as I received Sir Francis Burdett's letter, declining to present the petition of the distressed people to the Prince Regent, I took the earliest opportunity of proceeding to Carlton House by myself.

  • Appear, look, appear to be, present the appearance, have the appearance, strike one as being.

  • Appear, seem; have, wear, or present the appearance; strike one as being.

  • He asserted that emancipation was exclusively a State affair; and that his purpose was simply to present the proposition.

  • The Board of Managers of the General Convention of the Baptist Denomination in the United States, to their coloured brethren, Collin Teage and Lott Carey, present the assurance of their sincere affectionate esteem.

  • He aims, therefore, to present the Negro's claim for recognition as a man, as a member of the human family with the implied rights and privileges belonging to him.

  • During the debate on June 27 the Duke de la Rochefoucauld found opportunity to present the aims of the Society of Friends of the Blacks, and requested the future consideration of the problem of emancipation.

  • The second step consists in a rotary movement of the arm, its object being to present the epicondyle (elbow-joint) to the interlocutor.

  • This is why we present the fixed, invariable rules which have their sanction in philosophy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    began thus; careful consideration; false oath; her friends; kept quiet; official information; present arms; present condition; present constituted; present everywhere; present himself; present society; present state; present tense; present the; present their; present themselves; present time; presented himself; presented itself; presently adding; take each; this history; three states; universal life; you wouldn