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Example sentences for "projecting"

Lexicographically close words:
proinde; project; projected; projectile; projectiles; projection; projections; projective; projector; projectors
  1. For convenience in holding you can paste on to the outside a loop or handle of tape, but do not push this through the cardboard as it is important that there should be nothing projecting inside the trumpet of the megaphone.

  2. The pin is made of a wooden skewer or penholder with the point projecting slightly beyond the cut portion of the reel.

  3. Everywhere the vintagers are busy detaching the grapes with their little hook-shaped serpettes, the women all wearing projecting close-fitting bonnets, as though needlessly careful of their anything but blonde complexions.

  4. The exospore is sometimes roughened, with more or less projecting warts, as may be seen in Russula, which much resembles Lactarius in this as in some other particulars.

  5. Sometimes the external surface is rough with more or less projecting warts.

  6. I remember the two or three ships, still left standing where they were beached a year or two before, built in between warehouses, their bows projecting into the roadway.

  7. In attempting to clear it, it fell directly into the deep cup-like basin and remained helplessly fixed, with its fore-legs projecting uneasily beyond the rim.

  8. At this time we were abreast of a very long point of sand projecting from the main-land.

  9. About half-a-mile from the town there stood three or four old-fashioned houses, with projecting gables and low green verandahs sloping over their wide balconies, and it was in the first of these houses that Herr Ritter lodged.

  10. The disk which formed the largely projecting capital seemed to represent the original diameter of the pillar, and apparently retained its proportions in virtue of a much closer texture and larger per cent.

  11. Describing the contour of a projecting foothill, we obtain our first glimpse of Manitou, with its great hotels, its cut-stone cottages, and its picturesque station.

  12. The allegation that, after the collapse of the expedition to San Thome, he had meant to sail for the Carib islands, and leave the land companies to their fate, insinuated that he was projecting some great piracy.

  13. It was a cliff which, projecting for some distance out, was fissured by an immense chasm, through which the waves passed; not very wide, but deep enough to make it a very awful leap.

  14. And they spurred their horses to a sharp trot as they descended the gentle slope, which, projecting far out to sea, formed the promontory of Cluan.

  15. In a large and well-furnished library, with a projecting window offering a view over the entire of Clue Bay, Forester found a small breakfast-table laid beside the fireplace.

  16. He fell back, and then, gathering his ferocious strength, he bounded up and forward again; this time striking his left shoulder heavily against a projecting corner of the granite slab.

  17. Monte Carlo occupies, as already said, a limestone headland, forming the horn of the bay opposite Monaco, but not projecting to anything like its extent into the sea.

  18. In this the boat rested snugly and was held fast by rope lashings; and the cradle itself--resting on the lower hatch and projecting on each side of it--was lashed to the hatch ringbolts so as to be safe against shifting in a heavy sea.

  19. In such quiet haunts the kingfisher is easily the most conspicuous object in sight, where he perches on some dead or projecting branch over the water, intently watching for a dinner that is all unsuspectingly swimming below.

  20. He wore a flat, black cap, with a broad, projecting brim, under which his hair was combed straight back.

  21. The building is provided with a broad, projecting roof to guard against injury from storms, but in such a way that the interior is in no way darkened.

  22. No," said Fitz thoughtfully, as he looked anxiously back and saw that they were thoroughly sheltered by projecting cliff and headland.

  23. Looking up they made out the face of Burgess the mate projecting from the bushes as, high upon a shelf, he held on by a bough and leaned outwards so as to watch the motions of the boat.

  24. Besides this regular row of spines there are several projecting from the surface of the starfish between the rays.

  25. To those who cannot look down a sheer precipice many hundred feet deep without a tendency to giddiness, there is danger in this escalade, as well as in passing over some smooth projecting shoulders of rocks.

  26. To render the first impression of the Cirque or oule more impressive, a small projecting wall of rock marks the entry to the gigantic amphitheatre.

  27. Almost his first resting-place was a projecting shelf which was carpeted with a mat of bluish-green foliage.

  28. These cliffs were so shattered in places that the broken fragments lay in heaps at their base and on the projecting ledges.

  29. Her house is after the model of the town houses, with long sloping roof and projecting eaves, affording a cool shade, under which the pagazis love to loiter.

  30. The materials of the gravel at d must have been cemented or frozen together into a somewhat coherent mass to allow the projecting ridge, d, to stand up 5 feet above the general surface, the sides being in some places perpendicular.

  31. One of the Borreby skulls in particular (Figure 5) has remarkably projecting superciliary ridges, a retreating forehead, a low flattened vertex, and an occiput which shelves upward and forward.

  32. Lastly, projecting eminences of rock, called "roches moutonnees," are smoothed and worn into the shape of flattened domes where the glaciers have passed over them.

  33. Smaller scratches and striae are made on the polished surface by crystals or projecting edges of the hardest minerals, just as a diamond cuts glass.

  34. Palpi very short, hardly projecting beyond the head, compressed on the tongue, covered with scales and margined externally with long hairs, the last joint nearly naked and almost as long as the second joint.

  35. You walk briskly down the street, as though you were projecting a good long constitutional, in order that no one may be mad enough to think of following you.

  36. Such, then, were our views, and such our hopes in projecting a trip to Taloo.

  37. But Jermin quickly recovered himself, when for a time they had it every way, dragging each other about, bumping their heads against the projecting beams, and returning each other's blows the first favourable opportunity that offered.

  38. The device had an heraldic look, certainly--being two sharks with the talons of hawks clawing a knot left projecting from the wood.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "projecting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    beetle; bold; eminent; impending; incumbent; jutting; lowering; outstanding; overhanging; pending; projecting; prominent; protuberant; salient; superincumbent


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    projecting part; projecting rock