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Example sentences for "reversing"

Lexicographically close words:
reversed; reverser; reverses; reversibility; reversible; reversion; reversionary; reversions; revert; reverted
  1. He was the hereditary king of the Persians, and headed a revolt against the Medes, which resulted in reversing the relations of the two races, so that the Persians became dominant.

  2. They were called forth by a series of oppressions, which were sometimes invasions by foreign tribes, and sometimes the uprising of the native peoples against their Israelite conquerors, reversing the relation for a time.

  3. It was applied to to bring the case of the missionaries before itself, and did so, reversing the judgment of the Georgia State Court, and pronouncing one of its own; which was disregarded.

  4. Reversing the glasses, that gentleman then examined him through the larger end.

  5. Samples of water were taken for the most part with Ekman's reversing water-sampler; it consists of a brass tube, with a valve at each end.

  6. The air and gas, the latter coming from the gas producers or other source, arrive through H and J respectively, and their path thence is determined by the position of the reversing valves K and K'.

  7. The gas evolved follows the course shown by the arrows in the figure into the gasholder, and raises the bell, thereby reversing the action of the levers and allowing the valve to fall of its own weight and so cut off the delivery of carbide.

  8. The evolution of gas is stopped by reversing the lever of the tap.

  9. Circuit Court of Appeals, reversing the lower court, held through Judge Coxe that there was no infringement, because the only use made of the list was to guide the defendant to the reports and because the complainant had no standing in equity.

  10. We seat ourselves in our comfortable arm-chairs, without the mortification of removing single gentlemen and the trouble of reversing seats to accommodate our party.

  11. God wills that the heart should have rest, but not the head, reversing the order of the physical life in which the head sleeps and rests at times while the heart wakes and works unceasingly.

  12. The housekeeper must understand how this is done in order to avoid reversing them when she shakes down the ashes.

  13. Two difficulties arise in reversing the grate when the stove is filled with fuel.

  14. The pride of the pleasure of reversing the general idea of English dulness among our neighbours, was perceived to have laid fast hold of Dudley Sowerby at Dreux.

  15. What he could not do, as in other matters he did, was to rise above the situation, in a splendid survey and rapid view of the means of reversing it.

  16. I think he must have thought he was driving a street car, for instead of reversing like any white man would, he pulled off an evolution that was a peach.

  17. By the reversing of old attainders, and by new creations, seventeen more Lords, all Roman Catholics, were introduced into the Upper House.

  18. The Court of Appeal, reversing the decision of North, J.

  19. The Court of Appeal, reversing the decision of Mathew and Grantham, JJ.

  20. The House of Lords reversing the judgment of the Court of Appeal and restoring the judgment of North, J.

  21. The Court was unanimous in reversing the judgment below, and holding that the plaintiff's right of action was a statutory right and not a common law right.

  22. So, by reversing it, the Greeks formed Artemis, Diana.

  23. It is far from proven that mineral acids can be useful merely by reversing the reaction of the stools.

  24. He found no means of reversing the decree, of winning the blessing of the firstborn, of inducing his father to recall the benediction which had been treacherously diverted to the younger, though he sought it carefully with tears.

  25. I can discover no just ground for reversing this determination and making a further discrimination in favor of this pensioner.

  26. It is memorable for the discovery by Young of the "reversing layer" of the solar atmosphere.

  27. A new statute since the Oregon decision has been passed in Illinois and the law was sustained, reversing the older case.


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