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Example sentences for "several pieces"

  • The bronze circlets and flanges on the tangs, if in their original position, involve the necessity of having the handles, whether of bone or horn, divided in several pieces.

  • Together with pottery of the Burgwälle type, he found bone skates, an iron hatchet, and an ornamented comb, constructed of several pieces of bone banded together with iron rivets.

  • Several pieces of wood with round and square-cut holes.

  • It is formed of several pieces of timber, of which the main one is generally of oak, extending the whole length.

  • The joints, when a keel is made of several pieces.

  • A peculiar boat used by several uncivilized nations, formed of the trunk of a tree hollowed out, and sometimes of several pieces of bark joined together, and again of hide.

  • A sort of vessel made of several pieces of wood merely lashed together; hardly superior to a raft, but sharp forward to cut the water.

  • The circle may be made of wood, or of several pieces of slender cane bound together.

  • The tip-capped floats are made of several pieces of quills, or of reed for the middle, and ivory or tortoiseshell for the top and bottom, and narrow at each end, gradually increasing in circumference to the middle.

  • Cut tomatoes in several pieces, place over fire in porcelain-lined preserving kettle and cook about 25 minutes, or until an orange-colored scum rises to the top.

  • Add a half cup of raisins, seeded and cut in several pieces, if liked, but the cakes are very good without.

  • Have the butcher cut the bone in several pieces.

  • They are also furnished with brushes, with glass rules, with rolls of woollen stuff, several pieces of flannel, and a great many weights of stone or cast-iron.

  • Near the mouth there is a top-plate d, made in several pieces, which serves to bind the sides at their upper end, as also to cover in the walls of the shaft.

  • In this case it is a little hollow, as is shown in the preceding vertical section; but if it consists of several pieces, it is usually made flat.

  • In one of these was found an oak plank, several pieces of timber bearing the marks of tools, and many hewn chips.

  • They are built of several pieces of thick plank and put together as the others are, only these have timbers in the inside, which the others have not.

  • Besides this, several pieces of pottery were met with, one of the thickest of which was strongly vitrified, and also a bronze fibula, and a considerable quantity of bones and ashes.

  • It was built of several pieces of oak, though without ribs.

  • As to their composition, these organs consist of several pieces or portions.

  • In the Hemiptera the dorsolum appears to consist of several pieces, variously circumstanced, separated by sutures, corresponding with which are as many ridges on the inside of the crust[1653].

  • One of the largest is the destruction of Pharaoh and his host; it consists of several pieces, which, when united, form a complete subject about four and a half feet wide by about three feet high.

  • The heavy pine top is "built up" like a drawing board of several pieces, and supported by two cleats 3 x 1/8 inches across the grain underneath.

  • The seat is built up of several pieces fastened to cleats on under side, with front edges rounded.

  • Several pieces of the veneer are glued together and placed in hand screws over night.

  • Some parts of several pieces of furniture are turned in the lathe; and, in large cities, this part of the work is performed by professed turners.

  • It is composed of several pieces of a wedge-like form, and the joints formed by the contact of flat surfaces point to a common centre.

  • The pattern is often composed of several pieces, and the number and form of the flasks are also varied accordingly.

  • The jaws are each made of several pieces; the lower one is suspended from the skull by a chain of three flat bones.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    attention was; come upon; external soul; help myself; presidential electors; raining hard; several countries; several days; several families; several feet; several hours; several inches; several letters; several members; several miles; several others; several persons; several places; several points; several species; several things; several times; several towns; several ways; several writers; women should