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Example sentences for "rubbers"

Lexicographically close words:
rubbe; rubbed; rubber; rubbered; rubberized; rubbery; rubbeth; rubbing; rubbings; rubbish
  1. Then, having mailed this letter in the crow mail-box, Jimsi put on her cloak and cap and rubbers and went over to see Joyce.

  2. She’d be very careful to see that you wore rubbers and didn’t take cold.

  3. I told her that this showed the man was not a cocksure humbug, and expressed fervent hopes as to the result, after which Frieda made a disreputable bundle of my rubbers and I left with them, in a hard flurry of snow.

  4. I prevailed on her to accept pair of old rubbers of mine and, once in the street, she grasped my arm with a determination that left a blue mark next day.

  5. She was glad about the rubbers and the wash; she was glad there had been no need yet for the liniment.

  6. You mustn't forget your rubbers when it's wet, or to make up your bed yourself.

  7. As a consequence of the lost rubbers and wet feet, Miriam caught such a cold that she was not able to leave the house for the remainder of the week.

  8. You'd feel more disagreeable if you'd lost the third pair of rubbers this winter, and had wet feet.

  9. I don't see why it is that it's always my rubbers that are gone, anyway.

  10. And here is the smallest pair of rubbers I can find, and I shall have to tie these on!

  11. Rankin came back to the fire with a pair of rubbers in his hand.

  12. The doctor and Mr. Dockett won three rubbers out of four against Mrs. Bodkin and the curate.

  13. I had such a fuss getting this pair of French-heeled boots that I don't intend to spoil the looks of them with rubbers any oftener than I can help.

  14. I can't bear to wear rubbers unless the mud or the slush is simply knee-deep, they make your feet look so awfully big.

  15. While she busied herself helping them into their rubbers and waterproofs, Frederik puffed at a cigarette in silence and was seemingly without the slightest interest in what was going on around him.

  16. Mr. Batholommey betook himself to the vestibule and began to put on his rubbers with methodical care.

  17. The rubbers are placed horizontally, with their grooved ends pressing by means of springs against the barrels, which are drawn between them by a very regular and rapid vertical motion.

  18. People who wear rubbers the whole winter through, generally suffer with their feet.

  19. Rubbers make them very tender by overheating and causing them to perspire.

  20. Put the rubbers in hot water for fifteen minutes and wipe them dry.

  21. True, massa, an' if dey's rubbers we kin fight dem.

  22. With her hat thrown on one side of her head, the strings hanging down into her eyes, her sack rolled up in a bundle under her arm, and her rubbers in her pocket, she started for home on the full run.

  23. I hope you won't think it a liberty, Miss O'Neill, but I've brought you some rubbers from a store uptown.

  24. She wore no rubbers and she had come to a halt at the beginning of the mud.

  25. Sheba gave Janet advice about where to keep her money and when to wear rubbers and what to do for Billie's cold.

  26. In commencing to polish, the materials required are old flannel for the rubbers and clean old linen or cotton rags for the coverings, the softer the better; some polishers, however, prefer white wadding for rubbers instead of flannel.

  27. Now use the felt-covered rubbers and ground pumice-stone, and cut it down, working in a circular manner.

  28. The rubbers best adapted for turned work are made of white wadding, as the hollows and other intricacies can be completely finished out with a soft rubber.

  29. Small pliable rubbers are usually employed for chairs or light frame-work.

  30. We had uncertain anticipations of having to scramble over wet and oozing turf, and one of us, without saying a word to any one else, tucked a pair of rubbers into a capacious basket.

  31. But the rubbers stayed right there, for there was no bog, nor any suggestion of one,--funny way these English have of naming things!

  32. The polishing rubbers are coarse linen cloths, or bagging, wedged tight into an iron planing tool.

  33. That's where I heard one of the rubbers say the former Mrs. Murchie was living.

  34. As we swung out again into the country, we could see ahead of us some stable-boys working out several fine thoroughbreds on Broadhurst's private track, while a group of grooms and rubbers watched them.

  35. We jumped to our feet in time to see a young tough, with a slouch like that of the rubbers and grooms at Broadhurst's.

  36. While Broadhurst and Kennedy hovered about the stall on one pretext or another, watching both Murchie and McGee as they directed the rubbers and others who were preparing for the race, I watched the trainer and the jockey minutely.

  37. Oh, I did not mind it; I had something to think of," replied Marion, as she pulled off her muddy rubbers before going upstairs.

  38. Here all latex could be received and strained, scrap-rubbers could be received and passed through an opening into tanks placed in convenient position.

  39. Hence it follows that if in any factory uniform quantities of the solution are used for any given volume of undiluted latices from different areas of the estate, the effect upon the dry rubbers will vary.

  40. Until that time the preparation of compound crepes must be the privilege only of well-equipped estates, unless other estates can send their lower grade rubbers for treatment in a scrap-washer to their more fortunate neighbours.

  41. If possible the scrap-washing machine should be placed outside the wall of the factory, and tanks for the reception of scrap rubbers may then be situated in convenient proximity.

  42. These observations regarding the possibility of damage to crepe rubbers from the existence of brass "liners" or "bushes" in the bearings of the machines lead to the natural query as to whether the use of brass is necessary.

  43. Some few years ago a demand for pale crepe rubbers sprang up, and this demand has been maintained.

  44. On some estates an examination of these rubbers would appear to suggest that there need be no expenditure of care in the preparation or the form in which it is made.

  45. Few managers of estates preparing pale crepe rubbers are unacquainted with this defect.

  46. It is not proposed here to argue the question as to whether the presence of this film, which appears when some rubbers are stretched, is detrimental to the physical qualities of the product on vulcanisation.

  47. When, in addition to these variations, the further complication of condition of cleanliness is introduced, one may realise the difficulty attaching to the evaluation of these rubbers as they appeared upon the market.

  48. The prolonged storage of lower grade rubbers is attended by more risk, especially in the case of the lowest grade (earth-scrap) from estates which neglect the practice of regular and frequent collection of the raw product.

  49. The only complaints which it should be possible to lodge against block rubbers are: (a) The inclusion of dirt and other matter.

  50. It is best not to wear rubbers too much, because the same waterproofness, which keeps the rain and the snow out, keeps the perspiration of your feet in, and is likely to make them damp.

  51. Jack went for the truck, while Pam got into waterproof and rubbers as quick as she could.

  52. Pam had rubbers over her boots, or she would have been foot-wet before she had gone ten steps, for it was like wading in a pond.


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