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Example sentences for "scrapings"

Lexicographically close words:
scraped; scraper; scrapers; scrapes; scraping; scrapped; scrapping; scrapple; scrappy; scraps
  1. I should only have heard that acorn scrapings in brandy were good for the bellyache, or, at the most, I may have ascertained from what doctor, or peasant, or old wife he had got the tip.

  2. Lastly, some take the ashes which are obtained from burnt scrapings of leather, when the tanners scrape the hides to clear them from hair.

  3. It mixes a few scrapings of perforated pith with the green paste.

  4. Lastly, at the upper end of the little barrel, a partition is built with the scrapings obtained in the course of the final work on the third cell, which itself is shaped like a flattened ovoid.

  5. A; c1] rub bark scrapings into a fishing line to strengthen it.

  6. A; a] dye and strengthen a fishline or net by rubbing it with the scrapings from the bark of a k.

  7. But such dysenteries as are of a beneficial nature and are attended with blood and scrapings of the bowels cease on the seventh or thirtieth day, or within that period.

  8. Let the scrapings remain covered in the tureen for two days.

  9. Put all the scrapings into a tureen, and see that there are no seeds among them.

  10. Juice of three lemons, and three scrapings of the yellow rind.

  11. Put the boiling water, the sugar, and the scrapings of the peel on the fire, and still till the sugar dissolves.

  12. I put these scrapings through a long list of experiments.

  13. Dandruff and the scrapings from the skin of the body are composed of scales like those of the mouth, but they differ somewhat in being hardened by horny matter, and in having a very faint central body or nucleus.

  14. But if it can be done conveniently, the things in which they are found are to be burned, and the ashes put in the sacrarium, as was said of the scrapings of the altar-table, here above.

  15. But if it be not a board, let the ground be scraped, and the scrapings burned, and the ashes buried inside the altar and let the priest do penance for forty days.

  16. There is nothing to prevent it from thickening the structure at will and adding as much material as it thinks proper to the inner scrapings from the shell.

  17. The examination of scrapings from the inflamed skin should be practised in order to confirm the diagnosis.

  18. By pulling wool out of the newly infested area, or collecting skin scrapings and placing this material on black paper in a sunny, warm place, the mites may be seen crawling over the paper.

  19. Scrapings made from the inflamed areas of the skin may show the psoroptic mites.

  20. Whether this be one gross lie or not—I’ll not wanton with it, or with these scrapings of the fields.

  21. And what are these ditch scrapings and plough-boys?

  22. Experiments with Camphor Place a few scrapings from gum camphor in a tumbler of water and watch the phenomenon.

  23. The scrapings will go through all kinds of rapid motions as if they were alive.

  24. Group B shows a sudden decrease in capacity following the first light scrapings and, since that time, a low but quite constant capacity.

  25. Between scrapings there is also an occasional mid-period action of raking the unwatered sand surface, for the purpose of stirring up the dirty film.

  26. Light scrapings and rakings alternate at ends of runs.

  27. I'm going to have those scrapings I got from my neck looked at.

  28. He took scrapings of the blood stains on the floor.

  29. The mother and sister contrived to help this poor castaway with the veriest scrapings of a miserly household.

  30. Heaven and her own memory alone recorded those scrapings and pinchings and nice calculations of morsels by which she had contrived to save a few pounds for her outcast brother.

  31. Cameleon," that its origin may have been connected with the occurrence of numerous dipterous insects found in scrapings of the skin after the use of sulphur ointment.

  32. I now humbly submit these my Road Scrapings to the reader, in the earnest hope that I may have, in some measure, cleared the way for those who are disposed to avail themselves of my suggestions, and enlivened it for those who are not.

  33. I annually find a few beautiful specimens growing near my residence, upon a grassy turf which covers a pile of trash made up of decomposed sticks, leaves, and scrapings from the adjoining soil.

  34. A microscopic examination of the epidermic scrapings would be of crucial value in differentiating from ringworm.

  35. The scrapings or hair should be moistened with liquor potassæ, and examined with a power from three hundred diameters upward.

  36. The scrapings are taken from a patch, moistened with liquor potassæ, and examined with a power of three to five hundred diameters.

  37. As found in epidermic scrapings of ringworm, showing mycelium and spores.

  38. If there is still any doubt, microscopic examination of the scrapings will determine.

  39. In the epidermic scrapings it is never to be found in abundance, and the mycelium predominates, while in affected hairs the spores and chains of spores are almost exclusively seen, and are usually present in great profusion.

  40. One long white hair picked out of a mat below the window, and these scrapings of the window-sill, Tom carried off, and also the scrapings of the top bar of a stile between the mill and the Three Goblets.

  41. At last they sat down to supper and ate and drank heartily, but the devil ate nothing but the scrapings from the pots and pans, and drank no wine but the dregs that were left in the bottles.

  42. The movements of camphor scrapings referred to above afford a useful test of the condition of a water surface.

  43. If the contamination exceed a certain limit, the scrapings remain quite dead.


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