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Example sentences for "rivetting"

Lexicographically close words:
riveter; riveters; riveting; rivets; rivetted; rivieres; riving; rivulet; rivulets; riyal
  1. Fresh causes have lately occurred for rivetting the links which bind the two united nations; their people have fought together, and neither have been found wanting.

  2. Several specimens of faulty rivetting and caulking were exhibited to the meeting, and a sketch of one of them is shown in Fig.

  3. This does not solely refer to the business of rivetting the plate armour before it was put on, but as to the part when it was on.

  4. Hazlitt notes in this play a "power of rivetting breathless attention, and stirring the deepest yearnings of affection.

  5. For to leave more disputable points, and take only the historical parts of the Old Testament, or the moral sentiments of the New, there is nothing like them in the power of exciting awe and admiration, or of rivetting sympathy.

  6. He tried to raise himself a little, rivetting his eyes upon the crucifix;--the gilt letters gleamed in the morning light.

  7. Those fastened by means of a ring, or an iron plate, with a rivetting hammer at the end where they protrude through the wood, to prevent their drawing.

  8. Thus Scotland, England and Wales, would have mutually assisted in rivetting the fetters of each other.

  9. And the motor and propeller broke loose with a mighty roar comparable only, in Lanyard's fancy, to the chant of ten thousand rivetting locusts.


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