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Example sentences for "rod"

Lexicographically close words:
rockweed; rockwork; rocky; rococo; rocs; rodde; rodding; rode; rodent; rodents
  1. Evenals die inrichting te Boston, die ik vroeger beschreven heb, is ook dit huis niet in zalen verdeeld, maar in nette kamers, die allen zonder onderscheid al die gemakken opleveren, welke men in een fatsoenlijk burgerhuis aantreft.

  2. In the end, afraid of wasting time, they contented themselves with locking the doors of the corridor leading to the lower levels, making ready to raid the storeroom they had discovered during their search.

  3. The voice came back, thinned by its journey from the Queen's interior.

  4. Innocuous as that weapon was, in close quarters its effects, if only temporary, was to some purpose.

  5. The Hoobat held close the body of the stranger and where the ashy corpse came into contact with Queex's blue feathered skin it was slowly changing hue--as if some of the color of its hunter had rubbed off it.

  6. We were entirely independent, as our whole party had subsisted upon the produce of the rod and the rifle.

  7. A magician's rod could not have produced a greater miracle than the hippopotamus whip.

  8. If the link block does not come opposite the end of the eccentric rod when the reverse lever is in the end notch of the sector, the length of the reverse rod is wrong and should be corrected.

  9. Again, the connecting rod end and the coupling rod is in the way, rendering it awkward to both draw and level the line.

  10. This rod is bent so as to conform to the tapering portion of the axle upon which the skein is placed.

  11. This is done in order to take up any lost motion there may be in the eccentric straps, in the eccentric rod eyebolts, or other working parts or joints between the eccentric and the slide valve rod or spindle.

  12. The rod not only serves to retain the skeins securely in their places, but it also acts as a stay or truss rod for the axle, greatly strengthening it.

  13. Is there any reason why lightning rod points should always be bright, if the points are kept sufficiently sharp?

  14. A is used as a personal article with the names of males, both native and foreign: a Leo, a Joe.

  15. Bob, going after her; and scraping the butt of the rod along the palings.

  16. The rod to chasten, the staff to support!

  17. Another plan is to bend a rod of iron in the shape of a hoop and so fix it around the waist, or to pack the contraband next to the skin, under the armpits and around the stomach.

  18. For, as the horse that is tightly breeched draws none too well, neither do those men work best who are rigidly kept down under the iron rod of the overseer.

  19. The repeated blows on the set from the sledge would soon jar the iron rod loose and cause it to snap off, while the hazel rod grips it firmly and springs with it under the blow.

  20. He will ignore their interests and rule them with a rod of iron.

  21. Often they would set off on an expedition, rod in hand, and coffee kettle on their back, and be away for days together.

  22. It was as if old Asbjoernsen himself, the fairy-tale king, was trudging along rod in hand by the side of some hidden stream--he who alone knew how to find his way through the pathless forest to the dark waters of some remote lake.

  23. A Pendent Rod Lamp; in which the gas is supposed to come from a pipe above, through the ceiling, into the pipe, a, to supply the burners.

  24. The distance of this rod from the candlestick, or, which is the same thing, the length of the foot or horizontal line, is of course to be determined by the distance between the two circles which form the upper and lower apertures of the shade.

  25. Catch and name ten different species of fish: salmon or trout to be taken with flies; bass, pickerel, or pike to be caught with rod or reel, muskallonge to be caught by trolling.

  26. Make a bait rod of three joints, straight and sound, 14 oz.

  27. The other ends of the conductors are connected by a rod from the middle of which projects another rod terminating in a knob, for delivering the spark.

  28. It is a rod of iron placed against a building to protect it from lightning.

  29. The last is a small rod of gas carbon with the ends set loosely in blocks of the same material.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rod" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    automatic; bar; baton; billet; blowgun; blowpipe; bolt; cane; club; compass; coronet; correction; crook; crosier; crown; cudgel; diadem; discipline; ermine; fasces; firearm; flamethrower; gat; gauge; gun; heater; ingot; kilometer; mace; mantle; measure; musket; orb; paddle; piece; pistol; pointer; pole; portfolio; punishment; purple; rail; regalia; repeater; revolver; rifle; rod; ruler; scape; scepter; seal; shaft; shotgun; signet; slab; staff; stalk; stem; stick; strip; switch; tiara; tongue; wand


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    rode along; rode away; rode back; rode down; rode forth; rode forward; rode over; rode through; rode till; rode upon