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Example sentences for "sheathed"

Lexicographically close words:
shearwater; shearwaters; sheat; sheath; sheathe; sheathes; sheathing; sheaths; sheave; sheaves
  1. Sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place.

  2. The storm was over; the great clouds had disburdened their snow and fled farther on, and the new day was breaking on a merry winter landscape sheathed in white.

  3. I was insensibly reminded of his race; but its bitterness was all sheathed in beauty when I looked again.

  4. The remaining roll or book, which the Emperor now took up, was sheathed in a purple parchment covering.

  5. So misleading, that more than one, ere now, encouraged and inflamed thereby to presumption, became sorrowfully aware of the claws which lay sheathed in velvet.

  6. He sheathed his sword, and the others followed his example, though with an ill grace.

  7. He sheathed his sword and darted into the passage after his companions.

  8. Footnote 175: We had formerly occasion to notice a ship sheathed with iron at Japan, and this is the first indication or proposal for using copper in that way.

  9. The 21st we brought her down so low as to see part of her keel, and then began to sheath her with all expedition, and in four days the carpenters sheathed the whole of one side, from the keel up to her lower bends.

  10. The lad nodded sharply, rested his left hand upon the hilt of his now sheathed sword, drew aside the arras to the right of the fireplace, and passed through the door that faced him, one which closed behind him with a soft click.

  11. Saint Simon quickly sheathed sword and dagger as he stood on the lowest step and reached out to draw in the boat, into which he stepped, making the chain rattle as he drew it through the ring, and his leaden utter an impatient: "Hist!

  12. You are right, Tara of Helium," he replied and sheathed his sword.

  13. Presently he sheathed his sword and approached them.

  14. War Lord, trying to stab the floor with the point of his sheathed sword--a pitiable sight, since his poor left hand was powerless to move.

  15. All outside walls of frame houses should be diagonally sheathed with seven-eighths-by-six-inch dressed sheathing.

  16. At her appearance the young merchant, seeing that further resistance would be useless, sheathed his sword, and she passed between him and Heydocke, and advanced towards the leaders of the band.

  17. Behold we stand Sheathed in bright arms, and but expect command.

  18. Sheathed in bright arms each adverse chief came on.

  19. Thus sheathed in arms, the council they forsake, And dark through paths oblique their progress take.

  20. Now bid thy heralds sound the loud alarms, And call the squadrons sheathed in brazen arms; Now seize the occasion, now the troops survey, And lead to war when heaven directs the way.

  21. Whoever dares deserve so rich a prize, Now grace the lists before our army’s sight, And sheathed in steel, provoke his foe to fight.

  22. Thus round Pelides breathing war and blood Greece, sheathed in arms, beside her vessels stood; While near impending from a neighbouring height, Troy’s black battalions wait the shock of fight.

  23. First, Pylaemenes, great in battle, bled, Who sheathed in brass the Paphlagonians led.

  24. Our common safety must be now the care; But soon as morning paints the fields of air, Sheathed in bright arms let every troop engage, And the fired fleet behold the battle rage.

  25. Impatiently he switched with the sword at the weeds about his feet; then reddened at the apprehension that had made him all unconsciously bare the weapon at a door whose hospitality he was seeking, rapped again, and sheathed the steel.

  26. Over and over again he sheathed the sword, and as often withdrew it from its scabbard.

  27. I drew the fresh air into my lungs, I threw up my sheathed sword and caught it again in a frenzy of delight, while the gloomy men about me smiled at my enthusiasm.

  28. If laid in paint and then given two or three coats of paint, much as in the case of the canvas-sheathed canoes already described, a tight and durable roof will be the result.

  29. The sides require to be sheathed before covering the roof, leaving open spaces for the door and windows.

  30. His calves are girt, his thighs are sheathed with the bulky burden; and it covers his back like a beggar's wallet, completely deforming him.

  31. The perils of the tender babe are succeeded by the security of the lusty stripling; and the grub, henceforth scorning its sheathed lift, lets itself drop upon the game that remains.

  32. And there is goodness in this, and greatness, if you can trust the hand and heart of the Britomart who has braced you to her side, and are assured that when she leaves you sheathed in darkness, there is no need for your flash to the sun.

  33. It is most likely that the sabre will not be sheathed for a long time to come.

  34. Having the radicle of the embryo sheathed by the cotyledon, through which the embryo bursts in germination, as in many monocotyledonous plants.

  35. A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by the cotyledons or plumule.

  36. Over his bed hangs a gold sheathed sword which to him is a daily inspiration to do some deed worthy of the sacrifice which it typifies.

  37. An iron rod sheathed in laminated platinum would answer well, but for its expense.

  38. To its lower end the cross bars of iron, or of wood, sheathed with lead, are attached, by whose revolution the materials receive the proper agitation for mixing the dense manganese with the sulphuric acid and salt.

  39. The contact of these three substances is continually renewed by the agitator or stirrer B, which consists of wrought or cast iron sheathed with lead.

  40. Duke, taking his own sheathed rapier in his hand, "I could not have thought that.

  41. The men who fought under him never revered or loved him more than on the day he sheathed his sword.

  42. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho!


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sheathed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    armored; clouded; covert; enveloped; floored; hooded; housed; mantled; masked; muffled; obscured; packaged; paved; roofed; screened; sheathed; shielded; shrouded; tented; undercover; veiled; walled; wrapped