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Example sentences for "seaming"

Lexicographically close words:
seamanlike; seamanship; seame; seamed; seamen; seamless; seams; seamstress; seamstresses; seamy
  1. The sizes of garments tend to vary considerably, and difficulty is experienced in seaming or joining them together to have each side terminate equally.

  2. A woman cannot earn at it more than thirty-seven or fifty cents a day, being paid eighteen cents a dozen for seaming socks.

  3. New York, has her stitching and seaming done by machines.

  4. Many of the single breadths have traces of seaming stitches on one or both selvages, indicating that the original wrapping was two or three times its preserved width.

  5. Seaming together narrow breadths appears to have been preferred to weaving wider ones equal to the two or three which compose some of the rectangular specimens.

  6. Seaming machine, a machine for uniting the edges of sheet-metal plates by bending them and pinching them together.

  7. Seam lace, a lace used by carriage makers to cover seams and edges; -- called also seaming lace.

  8. Leave off seaming the middle stitches and knit round until your cap is 3/4 of a yard long, then finish the end like the beginning, decreasing where you before increased.

  9. When your cap is large enough round, leave off seaming and knit round until the cap is 3/4 of a yard long: make the end like the beginning.

  10. If she was obliged to cut her coat according to her cloth, she would just now make the scantiness of the pattern seem a matter of choice and carry out the seaming gallantly.

  11. If seaming rolls cut into the can they are set too close, and the seaming-roll pin should be adjusted in the opposite direction from above.

  12. If this seam is not sufficiently tight the second seaming roll needs adjusting, provided the directions regarding seaming rolls given below have been observed.

  13. If the first seaming roll is forced in too rapidly it may ruin the seam.

  14. There is no danger from bringing in the second seaming roll too quickly if the first seaming roll has completed its work.

  15. If for any reason the second seaming roll is brought into contact with the can before the first operation is complete it may injure the can seriously, thus preventing an air-tight seam.

  16. The seaming rolls are set before the machine leaves the factory and should not require adjusting for some time, but I have found that slight variations in cans may make adjusting necessary.

  17. Crashing and shrieking, the huge shells thundered down on the quaking ground, throwing up great fountains of earth and splintered stone, splitting the trees, and seaming the green hill with ragged brown wounds.

  18. Another cast of the spears, seaming the air between as the hosts closed in, and they fell on each other with their swords, shields upraised and gold-bronze sword-points darting beneath like the tongues of serpents.

  19. As the gloom rises up out of the earth, bands of dark red gather on the horizon, seaming the clear bronze of the sky, that passes upward into olive-color, merging in dark blue overhead.


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