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Example sentences for "shifter"

Lexicographically close words:
shields; shieling; shies; shift; shifted; shifters; shifting; shiftings; shiftless; shiftlessness
  1. Then, quite suddenly, Neville remembered the Cloud horse and the little yellow man and the little silver man and the head scene-shifter and the wonderful journey and all the rest of it.

  2. The Cloud Horse was taking him into the sunset again, and, if he did, what would the head scene-shifter say then?

  3. Neville had been to see pantomimes, and therefore knew what a scene-shifter was.

  4. And if I make the tiniest little slip, the head scene-shifter is down on me like a ton of bricks.

  5. Well," said he, "you heard what the head scene-shifter said.

  6. Before making adjustment to gear shifter control linkage, make the following checks: See that all linkage points from transmission gear shifter lever to gear shifter hand lever are well oiled and free‐working.

  7. Indication that gear shifter controls are in need of adjustment is when transmission gears “jump” out of engagement when accelerating vehicle or when under heavy pull.

  8. It provides mounting for shifter lever and shifter lever guide.

  9. Install gear shifter rod by connecting to hand shifter lever and transmission gear shifter lever.

  10. Remove gear shifter rod by disconnecting at hand shifter lever and at transmission gear shifter lever.

  11. The mention made by the scene-shifter of the approaching removal of Dick's basket frightened her, and she remembered that she had scarcely spoken to him since last night.

  12. A scene-shifter going by said that he had seen Mr. Lennox leave the theatre some twenty minutes ago.

  13. Raise elevator pawl shifter 26 on top of the vertical shaft to upper position.

  14. Cut in right elevator by lowering pawl shifter 26, and if stoker stops, the obstruction is in the right elevator.

  15. Raise elevator pawl shifter 26 on top of the elevator to middle position.

  16. We walked up Smithfield to the Union depot and got into a car with the shifter in front, and took us out to Twenty-eighth street.

  17. Shifter was allowed to run, and they would move the cars away.

  18. Shifter wanted to go down to Glendale and back, and take down relief guards and supper to the men.

  19. The scene-shifter perspires and tugs at his mighty cardboard trees and impossible castles in the forest; they are stiff, they will not turn round.

  20. The irresponsible scene-shifter begins to see a more excellent way.

  21. Dick Shifter was born in Cheapside, and, having passed reputably through all the classes of St. Paul's school, has been for some years a student in the Temple.

  22. Shifter was offended, but not terrified; and, telling the attorney that he was himself a lawyer, talked so volubly of pettyfoggers and barrators, that he drove him away.

  23. Shifter now began to be tired with rustick simplicity, and on the fifth day took possession again of his chambers, and bade farewell to the regions of calm content and placid meditation.

  24. With that this shifter said, "Go to the furthest Oke in the high-way towards S.

  25. For instead of having a king for a sire, Sabra had a drunken scene-shifter for a father.

  26. An opera-singer who received no more pay than a scene-shifter might choose to be a scene-shifter until the system was changed: if so, higher pay would probably be found necessary.

  27. In the position of the belt shifter shown in the cut, both belts would be upon the loose pulleys L L', hence the countershaft would remain at rest.

  28. The looms are provided with delicate stop motion, whereby the breaking of a thread knocks off the belt shifter and stops the loom.

  29. This chief scene-shifter was a serious, sober, steady man, very slow at imagining things.

  30. He seemed half mad and told me that the body of a scene-shifter had been found hanging in the third cellar under the stage, between a farm-house and a scene from the Roi de Lahore.

  31. Spangler is the first scene-shifter who may become a dramatis personæ.

  32. Spangler, the scene-shifter and stage-carpenter, has the face and bearing of a day-laborer.

  33. A week ago few signs of the approach of the scene-shifter were discernible.

  34. The scene-shifter worked with almost magical haste, with silence, and with supreme effect.

  35. This year (1916) both birds were noticed just after the scene-shifter had swept the hills of mists, and now other birds seem to have awakened to the conditions which the starlings and the nutmegs brought with them from hotter lands.

  36. The scene-shifter came softly "as the small rain upon the tender herb," but with an orchestra of his own.

  37. A scene-shifter was standing at the theatre door, Arago made a sign with his eyes for him to come up to him; the man understood and did so.


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