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Example sentences for "round hole"

  • The wheel has a round hole, which is transfixed with a pole when the machine needs to be stopped.

  • Through these upper posts a round hole is bored from one side to the other at a point three feet one palm from the bottom, and a small iron axle penetrates through the hole and is fastened there.

  • To one beam a pipe is fixed with iron clamps; to the other is fixed either the forked branch of a tree or a timber cut out at the top in the shape of a fork, and through the prongs of the fork a round hole is bored.

  • They are perforated with a round hole intended to receive a handle of wood.

  • They are all pierced with a round hole in which the handle was fixed.

  • This holder was itself perforated through the middle with a round hole, in order to receive a wooden handle.

  • Noteworthy among bone objects is the scapula of a deer perforated with a round hole, and having its central ridge rubbed off, so as to make it into a polishing implement.

  • A small bead-shaped portion of lead perforated with a round hole is supposed to be a spindle-whorl.

  • The cotton frock, already alluded to as worn to keep the driving snow out of the furs, is a long, loose shirt reaching to about midleg, with a round hole at the neck large enough to admit the head.

  • Ray in 1883: A round hole is dug in the drifted snow, along the bank of a stream or lake.

  • In the middle of a black Paper I made a round Hole about a fifth or sixth Part of an Inch in diameter.

  • This plate has a half-round hole at each of its four corners, corresponding to the shape of the four iron columns along which it glides in its up-and-down motions of compression and relaxation.

  • The Princess Clia swam slowly to one of the walls of the throne room where, at a wave of her hand, a round hole appeared in the coral.

  • Even as he spoke his head slid into the round hole and, at a signal from Aquareine, they all paused outside and waited.

  • But after the sea devil was destroyed, what was my surprise to find that all these years he had been lying over a round hole in the rock, and covering it with his scarlet body!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after alluding; another connection; aqua regia; chronic catarrh; free negro; her sister; lost characters; other buildings; raising water; round and; round ball; round corners; round emblem; round head; round numbers; round piece; round shot; round the; round the mulberry bush; round towers; round trip; sharp report; stiff dough; still held; vice premier; would sometimes