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Example sentences for "sennit"

Lexicographically close words:
seniority; seniors; senis; senna; senner; seno; senoras; senores; senoria; senoritas
  1. The sennit braids used in the Italian straw hats exported to the United States are not made in Italy but are of Japanese origin, as are also the sennit braids used in the sewed straw hats made in the United States and in England.

  2. Imported hats have a wide range of styles and prices, including not only sewed hats of sennit braid but also those of fancy braids, and woven body hats such as leghorns.

  3. Nor is production of sewed straw hats confined to those made of sennit braids; hats are made of other braids as well.

  4. Sennit made in this way must have an odd number of parts.

  5. In his fancy, at the time, he remembered likening her strength to ivory, to carven pearl shell, to sennit twisted of maidens' hair.

  6. We can keep our own secret concerning Sennit and his party; and we may not meet with another, after all.

  7. Sennit laughed at his own humour, and I could hardly answer with a smile, for I knew my mate had adopted this experiment to open communications with the cook.

  8. I was soon on deck, carrying my writing-desk under my arm, Mr. Sennit preferring to make his examination in the open air, to making it below.

  9. Sennit and I ran to the lee main-rigging, where we just got a glimpse of the hat of the poor fellow, who seemed to be swimming manfully, as the ship foamed past him.

  10. Sennit struck me as being a much more difficult subject to get along with.

  11. In the mean time, Sennit had not been idle.

  12. Sennit availed himself of this accident, to make further remonstrances on the subject of having any more men put in the boat.

  13. But Sennit knew as much of the history of my country as he did of his own, having obtained all he had learned of either out of newspapers.

  14. Then he bent the three together, and so had a very rough line of maybe some hundred and eighty fathoms in length, yet, though so rough, he judged it strong enough, and thus we had this much the less sennit to make.

  15. So it was, after low whinings and whimperings, that he applied his sharp first-teeth to the sennit cord and chewed upon it till it parted.

  16. Next, Lamai tied him securely with a sennit cord about the neck and untied the cords that bit into his legs.

  17. From the lofty cross-beams, on long sennit strings, hung the heads of enemies taken aforetime in jungle raid and sea foray.

  18. On the way back, he stopped us at his hut, and made Mrs. London a present of a sennit armlet.

  19. Their mode of using it was by attaching a cord of palm sennit to a ring already fastened round the tail, at the smallest part between the ventral and caudal fins.

  20. On the right of the chest was the sailor, his body stretched transversely along its end, with his left arm buried to the elbow in the sennit loop forming its handle.

  21. Snowball, releasing his arm from the sennit loop, swam up to the floating cask; and, after some dodging about, succeeded in getting astride of it.

  22. The next thing done was to secure the other end of the sennit to the upright oar; and the carcass of the shark was thus kept afloat near the surface of the water.

  23. Otherwise the chest sat so high upon the water, as to show that it must either be quite empty or nearly so; for the sennit handles at each end, which were several inches below the level of the lid, hung quite clear above the surface.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sennit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    button; card; fastener; girth; lacing