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Example sentences for "quad"

Lexicographically close words:
quacked; quackery; quacking; quacks; quacumque; quadam; quadraginta; quadrangle; quadrangles; quadrangular
  1. As they strolled across quad to Peter's room, Harry asked him, "Whatever put such a mad scheme into your head?

  2. In a neighboring quad a bon-fire had been kindled.

  3. Another oar was hung in Two Hundred and Two, and a bonfire was made in Cuther's quad to celebrate the occasion.

  4. The great lawns in front of New Quad stretched for his solitary pleasure in the golden emptiness of morn.

  5. Warden's garden and the Palladian fragment of New quad whence the dons like Georgian squires pondered their prosperity.

  6. The great space of Tom quad by absorbing his self-consciousness allowed him to feel himself an unit of the small and decorative population that enhanced the architecture there.

  7. Somehow more windows looking upon the quad were populated with flickering watchful faces.

  8. Later on in the quad when the undergraduate members of the dinner party discussed the evening, Maurice rallied Michael on his conversation.

  9. The back of New Quad looked out on the deer-park, and it was unanimously resolved to invade his rooms from the window, so that surprise and alarm would strike at the heart of Smithers.

  10. He turned disconsolately out of the lodge and walked round Cloisters, out through one of the dark entries on to the lawns of New Quad gold-washed in the morning stillness.

  11. Where the period is used an en quad following it is sufficient.

  12. Do not put small pieces at the end of a quad line or scatter them between the large quads.

  13. The en quad or any space thicker than the 3-space is obviously a thick space.

  14. The usual indention of paragraphs in plain reading matter is an em quad at the beginning of the first line.

  15. When used in headings and open-leaded matter en-quad spacing is required.

  16. Roman capitals of the standard faces are often sufficiently spaced with the en quad if the words are short.

  17. THICK SPACE--The en quad is sometimes so called.

  18. The apprentice should notice that the 12-point typewriter space and the 12-point en quad are not the same.

  19. He pointed to the windows over the Quad where an occasional figure could be seen behind the glass.

  20. The original Mob Quad was at Merton College, Oxford.

  21. How often do they have to make us hit the slides for the safety of the Mob Quad before you adopt a sensible theory?

  22. They had a Mob Quad to shelter students and professors from the town mobs.

  23. It was he who defaced the old quad of his college with stupid battlements and other changes.

  24. The huge ungainly quad was planned out and partly built.

  25. Some of the stones are in Laud's new quad at St. John's.

  26. Aldrich's All Saints' Church and Peckwater Quad at Christ Church belong to the early eighteenth century.

  27. On the saint's day a sermon used to be preached from the pulpit, and the quad was strewn with rushes and hung with boughs to represent a wilderness.

  28. A greater name is associated with the new quad of St. John's.

  29. The building of the old quad of Lincoln went on by stages during this same fifteenth century, and Corpus followed early in the next.

  30. Inside the quad he had his own way in the colonnades, but he was more in character still when he designed the Danvers Gateway of the new Physic Garden, and plotted its wall and walks.

  31. Brasenose gained in the Jacobean Period its exquisite dormer windows; Lincoln its homely second quad and lovely chapel.

  32. The old quad and parts of the chapel are early work, but the tower and other parts are later.

  33. The stone pulpit in St. John's Quad marks this.

  34. As one stands in the quaint little Mob Quad (the origin of which name has apparently been lost) it is good to realize that this is the first collegiate quadrangle known.

  35. Why, the Bullingdon Club got three First Classes this year, and as for breaking up furniture and bonfires in the quad it don't happen once in three years.

  36. There are probably fewer Socialists in Peckover than in any other quad in Oxford.

  37. They ain't agoin' to be seen drivin' up the Quad in a Noah's Ark like that.

  38. And the messenger departed, whistling a cheery tune, and dribbling Coote's cap, after the straightest rules of the Association, across the Quad before him.

  39. Dick, waxing wondrous wroth at the motto-maker, "there's plenty of room in the Quad for an extra word.

  40. May as well cut down," said Heathcote, when at length the Quad was deserted, and nothing seemed likely to be gained by remaining.

  41. A voice from the quad was shouting "Tony," and Dorothy, remembering Anthony from Debrett, could not resist telling Clarehaven that he was being called.

  42. Meanwhile Arabella, in her journey to discover what was going on, took a short cut down a narrow street and through an obscure nook into the quad of Cardinal.

  43. The chapel was entered from quad by two iron gates, with the same lofty railings which guarded the entrance on each side.

  44. Besides those who lived in the big quad there were several houses outside the gates, known as "Out-Houses.

  45. On my way across the front quad I met Lambert and Dennison lounging about arm-in-arm; they wished me luck, and I told them to go to blazes.

  46. And when Lambert and Webb began to shout the back quad down, I came out to see what had happened.

  47. I was so engaged with the porter that I did not see whether Dennison entered in state, but at any rate he had to ride round the quad two or three times, and crowds of men were there to see him do it.

  48. That's it," Jack declared; "I saw Lambert hitting you on the back in the quad this morning.

  49. I pointed out Jack Ward's rooms to Nina, and had walked half-way across the quad when Mrs. Faulkner called me back.

  50. I said to Jack as I walked across the quad with him.

  51. But the fact of a donkey being in our quad had got on the Subby's nerves, and he gated me for a month without listening to what I had to say.

  52. I did not tell her about the bonfire which we had in the back quad after supper, because I am sure she would have thought that either I was lying or that most of the men in St. Cuthbert's were a set of lunatics.

  53. As he walked across the quad I saw that he had been having a rough time of it, for his clothes did not look as immaculate as usual.

  54. The front quad was obviously no place for me, but before I had made up my mind where I would go the Warden came out of his house and saw me before I saw him.

  55. As soon as I got Nina into the big St. Cuthbert's quad she forgot that she had started by almost quarrelling with me.

  56. I met him in the quad and asked if I might speak to him.

  57. Finally, Dennison having worked this joke most diligently, decided that a dinner must be given in Jack's honour, and when he met me in the quad on Sunday and told me about it I refused flatly to go.

  58. Five minutes after, that excellent Scout met the dejected Mr. Pucker as he was crossing the Quad on his way from Mr. Fosbrooke's rooms.

  59. When I got back to college, I found a group of men in the quad reading the skit in The New Oxonian.

  60. In an unbearable fit of restlessness, Falloden went out, passed Marmion, looked into the quad which was absolutely silent and deserted, and found his way aimlessly to the Parks.

  61. And he thought uncomfortably of a look he had surprised in her face, as he and she were sitting in the New Quad under the trees and Falloden passed with a handsome dark lady--one of the London visitors.

  62. He lounged around the quad till the doors of the hall were opened.

  63. But undergraduates were astir, moving aimlessly across the quad in caps and gowns, and staring hard at the intruder, as one might stare at a strange wild beast from some distant country.

  64. In the big Chapel Quad a crowd of eager competitors gathered thick in front of the notice-board.

  65. This somewhat compromising condition of affairs in the third pair left of Back Quad New Buildings had been brought about by a pure concatenation of accidents.

  66. A few lazy undergraduates, great overgrown schoolboys, were lounging about the quad in very careless attitudes.

  67. Next day he rose unrefreshed, and by a quarter to ten was in the quad at Durham.

  68. At that very same moment Faussett was stopping Trevor Gillingham in the Chapel Quad with a characteristic invitation for a wine-party that evening.

  69. He ran across the quad and climbed the stairs, breathless, to the low room still steeped in stale honeydew, where his life at St. Luke’s had begun and must now so abruptly end.

  70. I’ve often seen you walking up and down the quad at night.

  71. Credis, quad in ista ipsa carne in qua nunc es, habes resurgere in die judicii et recipere sive bonum sive malum quod egisti?

  72. The en quad is really a thick space, though called a quad, and is equal to half the em.

  73. I was looking out here, and saw an old fellow come hobbling into quad on two sticks, in a shady blue uniform coat and white trousers.

  74. The goddess of common sense seems to have alighted again in the quad of St. Ambrose.

  75. And the noise brought Drysdale and another man up, who were loitering in quad on the lookout for something to do.

  76. Brodrick, then a young fellow, later the Warden of the college, insisted on the matter being discussed again at a later meeting, and at this the Mob Quad was saved by a narrow majority.

  77. The north side of the Mob Quad, which is shown in our picture, is very little later than the Chapel, and the whole of the Quad was finished before 1400; the rooms in it have been the homes of Oxford men for more than five centuries.

  78. Why the Quad is called "The Mob Quad," nobody knows.

  79. One of the best known of these garden statues was a group of Cain and Abel that so recently gave an interest to the great grass quad of Brasenose College, Oxford.

  80. Forty or fifty years ago there was a Mercury in Tom Quad which has also been improved away.


  81. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quad" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arena; block; cincture; close; confine; container; coop; court; courtyard; croft; enclave; enclosure; field; fold; foursome; ground; list; lot; pale; park; patch; pen; plat; plot; quadrangle; quadrat; quartet; quaternary; rectangle; section; slug; space; square; squaring; theater; tract; yard