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Example sentences for "reversed"

Lexicographically close words:
revering; revers; reversal; reversals; reverse; reverser; reverses; reversibility; reversible; reversing
  1. The white ends are shown when a magazine is in, and when it is issued the peg is reversed to show the black end.

  2. The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court then reversed his conviction, but later, on appeal to the Court of Appeals, it was sustained.

  3. The wand continued to turn gradually, until at length the stem had reversed its position, and pointed perpendicularly downward, and remained pointing to one spot as fixedly as the needle to the pole.

  4. Submit then with all thy wonted resignation to a decree that cannot be reversed or resisted.

  5. No more shots were fired, but the first man who came within striking distance of Hal reversed his rifle quickly and brought the butt down on the boy's unprotected head.

  6. He reversed his revolver suddenly and brought the butt down on Chester's injured head.

  7. Tenth operation: Bolt being reversed in chuck, the top of the head is water cut finished by a front tool in the carriage.

  8. In arranging the teeth so that the successive rows shall not be exactly parallel one to the other, the angle of inclination being reversed as necessity requires.

  9. Again, even with the tool fed both to its cut and on the back traverse with the hand feed handle, the play is, from the altered direction of resistance of the cut, reversed in direction, and the depth of cut is therefore altered.

  10. When this rotary motion is in one direction the band is expanded; while when it is reversed it is contracted, and the direction of motion of shaft H is reversed.

  11. The machine consists of two cylindrical guides, upon which are mounted two heads, carrying microscopes which may be reversed in the heads, so as to be used at the front of the machine for line measurements and on the back for end measurements.

  12. When the direction of rotation of the driven pulley requires to be reversed from that of the driving pulley, the belt is crossed as in Fig.

  13. It is to be observed, however, that the cutter could not be reversed if it was driven by an arbor that screwed upon the driving spindle of the milling machine.

  14. The engine can be reversed almost instantly, and it can be graduated with the most minute precision.

  15. I reversed my stroke as quickly as possible.

  16. The latter stream was later reversed by a glacial dam at the southern end, or by glacial scouring at the northern end of its valley which removed the divide between its headwaters and the Housatonic.

  17. The deposits at the divide, supposed to have formed a glacial dam which reversed the Umpog,[14] are much less heavy than at points short distances north and south of the water parting.

  18. This hypothesis holds good only for the short portion of the lower course of the present river, that is, the part representing the short tributary of the Housatonic which captured and reversed the original Still.

  19. The professor reversed the engines, turned on the vapour very cautiously indeed, and simultaneously, with the engines below only just barely moving, the huge propeller began to whirl round at a speed of some sixty revolutions a minute.

  20. Then he quickly reversed the wheel and sent the index hand back to "Stop," keeping a wary eye on his companions as he did so.

  21. This was not all: she had begun by judging him unfavorably; then she reversed her opinion.

  22. The branching away from the stem of the first part of the arch in b h m n p r (seen also reversed in a d g q u), and the pointed, almost angular, quality of the arch.

  23. Surely this is the truer and manlier way of looking at the reversed and improved attitude of man.

  24. In the wide open spot, for instance, connected on the south with vast continents and terminating in a point, it would be no easy matter to recognize the reversed image of the Indian Peninsula, the Bay of Bengal, and Cochin China.

  25. I could understand, when looking through a lens at an object, why we get only its reversed image--a simple law of optics explains that.

  26. And such a map seen through a lens will appear reversed in all respects.

  27. It faded until it was almost gone, and then, as he reversed the mechanism, it materialized again.

  28. Then again the command pulsed within him, the signal bulb flashed, and he reversed his motions of the moment before.

  29. Alvin reversed the screw, so that the launch became motionless when a few yards from the bridge.

  30. But the snoring continued unbroken and Jim reached the door, where he stealthily slid back the bolt and reversed the key, without causing any betraying sound.

  31. Circuit Court held that the omission of copyright notice from the exhibited original waived the copyright, but his decision of the case was reversed by the U.

  32. A revolution in the process of milling presently reversed the places of the two flours.

  33. The state intervened and the case was appealed to the Supreme Court of Minnesota, which reversed the decision of the court below, thus sustaining the validity of the act of 1871.

  34. I expelled him once; but out of regard for his uncle, to whom I am under great obligations, I reversed my sentence, and endeavored to reduce him to proper subjection.

  35. You appear to have intimidated Poodles to such an extent that he has entirely modified and reversed the statements he made this afternoon.

  36. The fact that he reversed it, seems clear proof that he was socially minded and that the Kingdom of God as a right social organism was the really vital thing to him.

  37. Would it make Jesus a wiser teacher and nobler figure if he had reversed his sympathies?

  38. The modern Church has reversed the relative emphasis.

  39. Pontiac will demand to hold a council; and after he has delivered his speech, he will offer a peace-belt of wampum, holding it in a reversed position.

  40. Prince Henry became titular Lord-Lieutenant, the attainder was reversed by the English Parliament, and Kildare received a commission as Lord Deputy under the King's son.

  41. Leverous was admitted to the English monastery at Rome, and in Mary's reign became Bishop of Kildare; Robert Walshe went back to Ireland, but I do not find that his attainder was reversed or that he was ever pardoned.

  42. Bear in mind that the shape of the cut made by the plane will be a reversed copy of the shape of the cutting-edge.

  43. There are no concave surfaces and reversed curves.

  44. It was held that the evidence thus given was not admissible on the prisoner’s trial for the murder, and his conviction was reversed upon that ground.

  45. They reversed their action and approved the compact.

  46. Adams had reversed himself, eaten his own words, confessed the hypocrisy of the "infamous X.

  47. But, he continues, when the Virginia Senate reversed the House, "the zealots of Anarchy were backward to act .

  48. The amendments were used by many, who changed from advocates to opponents of broad National powers, as a pretext for reversed views and conduct; but such as were actually adopted were not a sufficient justification for their action.

  49. A judgment from the court of exchequer in 1719 having been reversed by the House of Lords, an appeal was brought before the Lords in England, who affirmed the judgment of the exchequer.

  50. Both Mrs. Lisle's and Cornish's convictions were without evidence, and consequently were reversed after the revolution.

  51. New families, adherents of the victorious party, rose in their place; and sometimes an attainder was reversed by favour; so that the peers of Edward's reign were not much fewer than the number I have mentioned.

  52. The ordinary head was nearly perfect and of usual volume, but fused with its vertex and reversed was a supernumerary head.

  53. After several turns the bandage is reversed so as to compress the foot longitudinally.

  54. There was a complete half-turn to the left, so that the slit-like urinary meatus was reversed and the frenum was above.

  55. Rosa was the stronger, and when she walked or ran forward she drew her sister with her, who must naturally have reversed her steps.

  56. The nails may be reversed or arise from anomalous positions.

  57. There are two cases mentioned in which children playing with toy balloons, which they inflated with their breath, have, by inspiration, reversed them and drawn the rubber of the balloon into the opening of the glottis, causing death.


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reversed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    back; backward; counter; everted; inside; introverted; inverted; reflex; reverse; reversed; transposed; upset