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Example sentences for "rims"

Lexicographically close words:
rimes; riming; rimless; rimmed; rimming; rimy; rin; rince; rind; rinde
  1. For such, the world is a far distant thing, lying out on the rims of consciousness, delicate and impermanent as sunset hues or the lights and gestures of the dream.

  2. Then Jack poured champagne into our glasses and raising them high we drank their healths, and then clinked the rims together and laughed, and wished them joy.

  3. It was lodged in a corner made by one of the small wooden rims that go up the window casing parallel with the window.

  4. Bob lifted Tommy to the ground, the boy being on the side that Stevens had leaped from just as the rims were going down.

  5. The young man knew very well that the rims were likely to be crunched in like egg shells at any second.

  6. The soft, springy snow that covered the ground protected the rims from the hard road somewhat.

  7. I shall go on as long as the rims hold," flung back Ruth in acknowledgment of his warning about the tires.

  8. It would have crushed them, only the rims didn't touch the ground till we got in the drive here," observed Thomas wisely, whereat the girls laughed merrily.

  9. The other, much smaller, adjoins it so closely that their rims touch.

  10. The residual heat of the extinct volcano causes steam and gases to escape from vents in the rims of the two small craters.

  11. At the junction of their rims is the great snow hill (on right of view) called "Columbia's Crest.

  12. It melted at once on the south side of the park, but the north slopes and the rims and domes above stayed white.

  13. Their rims are seldom flaring, but sometimes have a slight constriction, and while the rims of the majority are perfectly circular, oblong variations are not wanting.

  14. The rims of these dippers are never flaring, either inward or outward.

  15. Near a sacred spring called Kawaika,[83] not far from Jeditoh, near Awatobi, a large number of beautiful vessels with similar holes in their rims were excavated by Mr T.

  16. Several platter-like vessels with similar holes about their rims have been taken from other ruins of Jeditoh valley and mesa, the holes being regarded as having been made as a means of suspension.

  17. Among the most striking objects in this collection are clay models of houses, dishes, and small vases with rims pierced with holes, and rectangular vessels ornamented with pictures of birds.

  18. The rims of all these vessels are square on the edge, showing the full thickness of the walls.

  19. The exterior surface of the incurved rims of globular vessels offers a tempting surface to the artist and is often tastefully decorated in all the styles.

  20. Her lips, the very rims of her eyelids even, looked ghastly.

  21. Antonio's hands tore at his hair, his black eyes glared out of their red rims with the look of a hunted animal that hears the hounds baying in close pursuit.

  22. No marvel that even the rims of our daisies are dyed crimson by contact with such a sanguinary soil.

  23. The rims and bosses of their shields were of iron, while the body was sometimes formed of wood, and covered with leather.

  24. The rims of the larger pieces are upwards of an inch thick and the walls are in cases three-fourths of an inch thick.

  25. Variations in the forms of necks and rims 60 51.

  26. There are plain bowls with incurved rims and with flaring rims, vases with round bases, with annular stands, and with tripods, and life forms wholly unique.

  27. Pieces with round bodies have conical legs, like much of the Chiriquian ware, but those with shallow basins and angular, incurved, upright, or flaring rims have the Costa Rican tripod.

  28. West, without altering his position of careless ease, glanced over the rims of his glasses at the speaker.

  29. Behind the desk Bob West sat upon his high stool, gravely regarding his unusual customers over the rims of his spectacles.

  30. There was a slight air of subdued feverishness about him, though, not altogether healthy, and the dark rims had not quite vanished from underneath his eyes.

  31. He glared at the worthy fellow over the rims of his spectacles for fully a minute while Murphy stood fidgeting just inside the doorway.

  32. Cappy laid down his pencil and looked at Skinner over the rims of his spectacles.

  33. Then he rested a hand on each knee, bent his head, and glared at the unhappy Skinner over the rims of his glasses.

  34. The old gentleman was sitting rigidly erect on the extreme edge of his chair; in his hand he held a typewritten statement with a column of figures on it, and he eyed Joey very appraisingly over the rims of his spectacles.

  35. Cappy Ricks slid out to the edge of his chair and, pop-eyed with horror, gazed at his son-in-law over the rims of his spectacles.

  36. He bent his head and gazed very severely at Mr. Redell over the rims of his spectacles.

  37. Cappy read it all twice, then slid out to the edge of his chair, placed his hands on his knees and looked at Mr. Skinner over the rims of his spectacles.

  38. Cappy Ricks slid out to the edge of his chair, placed one hand on each knee, and appraisingly eyed his son-in-law over the rims of his glasses.

  39. He eyed the general manager over the rims of his spectacles for fully thirty seconds.

  40. Jaredite records) by the means of those two stones which were fastened into the two rims of a bow.

  41. And they bound the rims of their shields together the way they would not be parted from one another in the right.

  42. It is not hard to tell that," said Credne, "rivets for their spears and hilts for their swords and bosses and rims for their shields, I will supply them all.

  43. The music was played through and then the Guide began the song again, expecting the girls to sing, but they were so intensely interested in watching her deft fingers touch the rims of the bowls that they quite forgot to sing.

  44. Her next idea was to collect a number of empty tin cans and melt off the jagged rims left when the covers had been cut out.

  45. Again she passed her fingers over the rims of the glasses and played the scale.

  46. Several sherds of this drab stoneware were found at Marlborough, including the base of a jug with curving sides and pieces of tall mugs with brown rims (USNM 59.

  47. A small number of pan and bowl rims was found at Marlborough.

  48. Rims are usually heavy and flat, sometimes as wide as 1-1/2 inches.

  49. Several fragments of narrow rims from plates with blue bands probably date from the first quarter of the 18th century.

  50. Place the pans in a frame, and when the soil becomes dry stand the pans in water nearly up to the rims until the surface is moist.

  51. Moisture is best supplied by standing the pots up to the rims in water.

  52. The seed, which is very minute, should be sown early in spring, in gentle heat: to prevent it being washed away, the pots may stand up to the rims in water for a while when the ground wants moisture.

  53. Illustration: Details of Electric Stove] rims of both plates together, when they are placed in opposite positions, as shown in Fig.

  54. Break off the frame, leaving the metal rims and nibs at each end.

  55. To remedy this, procure some rubber tape a little wider than the rims of the old wheels, remove the old rubber tires and wind the tape on the rims to the proper thickness.

  56. The silver rims alone will sell for double the money.

  57. In this present area there is green grass between the rims of the craters.

  58. From where we were you could not see the enemy's trench in the valley--only the brown mud of crater rims down to the hill's edge.


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