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Example sentences for "primaries"

Lexicographically close words:
primae; primaeval; primal; primam; primaria; primarily; primary; primas; primat; primate
  1. The sides of the cheeks and the throat are of a brownish tint; the primaries quite black, and the secondaries similarly coloured on both sides.

  2. The first quill is black, the rest of the primaries yellow in the middle and black at the root and tip; the secondaries are yellow, if we except a narrow border to the outer web.

  3. Those minute jags and points of the primaries are dizzy precipices and towering peaks.

  4. The horizon line of the primaries will be serrated, peaked, and jagged.

  5. I was willing to leave the matter to the people, and determined, if it was a fair vote, to abide by the result of the primaries, and if defeated at the primaries to support Governor Yates.

  6. The Legislature did enact a new law, providing that the primaries be held in August, 1906.

  7. It was very flattering to me that I carried the primaries by a substantial majority, having carried the popular vote, a majority of the Senatorial districts, and a majority of the Congressional districts.

  8. On the 16th bills were passed making necessary changes in the election laws to insure the voting of the women in the primaries and at the regular elections.

  9. Afterwards several other cities and villages permitted women to vote in the primaries and on bond issues.

  10. The first was begun at the primaries against State Senator Roger Wolcott of Milton, chairman of the Constitutional Amendments Committee in the preceding Legislature.

  11. She won at the primaries and also at the polls in November and was the first woman member.

  12. At the April primaries in Chicago in 1912, through the initiative of Mrs. McCulloch, a "preferential" ballot on the question of suffrage for women was taken.

  13. The white women of Atlanta were given the vote in the city Primaries in May, 1919.

  14. Women attended nearly all the primaries and town meetings, distributing literature and urging the men to vote yes.

  15. Dopey Jack is the leader of a gang of gunmen over there and is Murtha's first lieutenant whenever there is a tough political battle of the organization either at the primaries or on Election Day.

  16. White; the head straw; tail and primaries gray brown; upper mandible broad and rounded at base.

  17. Head and throat slaty black, margined behind with black; bill black, tipped with yellow; outer primaries black, small tip and inner half of inner web white.

  18. Above brown margined with buff and white; primaries brown; tail brown with little or no mottling; below brown.

  19. Breast with a rosy tinge; outer primaries with wide black spaces near ends, bordered at base and tip with white.

  20. Rill greenish yellow, a black band across tip; ends of primaries black, a white spot near tip of outer one.

  21. White; primaries black; bill in breeding season with a knob.

  22. The two secondaries I connect in series, the primaries preferably in multiple arc.

  23. For the primaries I use ordinary line wire with a thick cotton coating.

  24. In politics Mr. Borden was a staunch Republican, firmly believing in every citizen taking an Active part in the politics of his town, and conscientiously performing his duty at the primaries and the polls.

  25. In summer the head is nearly black, the back slate color, and the five outer primaries black.

  26. Holcombe, Direct Primaries and the Second Ballot, in American Political Science Review, Nov.

  27. Holcombe, Direct Primaries and the Second Ballot, in Amer.

  28. There were no acceleration dampers, no temporal compensators, no autopilot, no four-space computer, and the primaries operated on nuclear rather than binding energy.

  29. Basically the ship was an ion-jet job with atomic primaries and a spindizzy converter that might possibly take her up as high as middle yellow Cth--far enough to give her a good turn of speed, but not enough to compensate for timelag.

  30. It was the primary election law, amended so as to knock out what are called the party bosses by lettin' in everybody at the primaries and givin' control over them to state officials.

  31. Being less active than the other primaries in reflecting light, it is sooner lost as a local colour by assimilation with distance.

  32. For citrine being an immediate compound of the secondaries, orange and green, of both which yellow is a constituent, the latter colour is of double occurrence therein, while the other two primaries enter singly into its composition.

  33. In younger birds, however, the primaries are a little more alike, but the first primary of L.

  34. Mr. Howard Saunders has given plates of the first three primaries of L.

  35. Troy was one of "our ablest and most popular fellow townsmen," that he had grown up in his district, had a host of friends, and might be expected to carry the primaries by a big majority.

  36. The day of the primaries was almost come.

  37. On the morning of the primaries Mrs. Schurz, as she took the coffee off the stove, remonstrated with her oldest daughter, Minna.

  38. It was the last week in June--they had just a month before the primaries in which to rouse public opinion.

  39. Seven o'clock, and the girls were leaving the primaries in twos and threes, tired but excitedly discussing the situation.

  40. Complementary colors may be used with adjacent or with a third primary color, or with a combination of two primaries on a neutral background of the third color.

  41. At the primaries 45 votes were cast for Mrs. Mina C.

  42. The primaries decide the election in that State.

  43. Suffrage in the Democratic municipal primaries was granted by the local Democratic committee to the women of Atlanta, Ga.

  44. These primaries are red, green, and blue and it will be noted that they are the complementaries of the "subtractive" primaries.

  45. The chief mixtures of two of the "additive" primaries produce the "subtractive" primaries.

  46. Of course his race was really won when he came out of the primaries victorious.

  47. Sometimes an exception is made in the primaries for the nomination of candidates for city offices, on the ground that party lines should not be strictly drawn in local contests and that independent movements should be encouraged.

  48. They usually applied only to the large cities, and in many cases they were optional in character, that is, they applied only to such communities as chose to conduct their primaries in accordance with the laws thus passed.

  49. In short, the abuses became so intolerable as to create a widespread demand for the regulation of primaries by law so that the results might more truly represent the real opinions of the members of the party.

  50. Sometimes the primaries were held at times or places unknown to the bulk of the members of the party, or at inaccessible places, or in rooms inadequate to accommodate the mass of the voters.

  51. In fact the planters should not be guided by the number of feet, but by the number of primaries he desires the tree to carry.

  52. This may be estimated as follows: There should be at least twenty-four primaries that have on each of them say, four bearing secondaries.

  53. But on the other hand, if the work is neglected, the trees will become matted and all the lower primaries die off.

  54. The coffee tree can be said to be in full bearing when all the primaries are carrying bearing secondaries.

  55. Both primaries should also be cut off an inch from the stem.

  56. If the trees are situated on good rich soil, and the trees are well grown, there should be at least thirteen pairs of primaries bearing crop.

  57. Immature: Resembles adult, but black feathers with brownish tinges; primaries tipped with white.


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